chinese medicine
Dr. Lucas talks about how worry affects the pulses. Worry makes the movement in the Earth/St/Sp sector go back and forth instead of one way from kidneys to Lu/LI. And, in my experience, the long term effect will be to make the kidney pulses scattered. Do you know what worry and scattered kidney qi feel […]
From the desk of Martha Lucas: Those of you who have known me for a while have heard some of the story of the now eight-year-old who was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer when he was four years old. That was the first bout. About 15 or 16 months ago, it was back with […]
This is how a grateful mother understands when a practitioner can make a good diagnosis – as told by Dr. Lucas: For those of you who don’t know, my specialty for more than 20 years has been pulse diagnosis. No matter what the person says on their medical intake form, I see what is happening […]
Our society is obsessed with how we look and we are bombarded with a crazy number of safe, and non-safe, healthy and non-healthy, ways to change how we look in order to achieve the desired result of youthfulness. It’s a modern fixation … the quest to look younger, live longer while feeling full of energy […]
It’s time to warm up for a lot of us who live in what can be colder climates during this season of the year. Today we’re going to talk about the herb cloves. •The main ingredient in cloves is an essential oil, which has antiseptic, antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antispasmodic and anesthetic properties. •In traditional Chinese […]
Pregnancy can be a stressful time especially if the couple has had difficulty conceiving and are always on edge. The changes in the body, the planning, the morning sickness … all that can add stress to what can also be a wonderful, feel great time in a woman’s life. It turns out that acupuncture treatments, […]
