Acupuncture is the insertion of fine needles into specific points situated all over the body. It’s aim is to balance the body’s energy, prevent and treat dis-ease.

Acupuncture, a branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), has been practiced in China for over 2000 years. Western acupunture, (aka medical acupuncture) is more recent and is now taught and practiced widely in the west following its growth in popularity in the seventies.

Traditional acupuncturists believe that in good health, our vital energy or Chi flows naturally around the body through channels known as meridians.

Don’t kill, spray, tear up, or destroy the weeds in your garden, yard, and fence rows. Many of them are actually highly-regarded, widely-used, and extremely-valuable medicinal herbs! What could be easier than growing an herb garden with no effort? Of course, you’ll have to harvest your weeds, but you would do that anyhow: it’s called weeding.

Spring is an especially fertile time for harvesting your weeds – roots and all – and turning them into medicines. Here then are some tips on how to find, harvest, prepare, and use a baker’s dozen (13) of common weeds that probably already grow around you.

Asthma can be a serous and often frightening condition that is typified by a tightening of the chest, wheezing and difficulty breathing.

Asthma is made up of two underlying components: inflammation and constriction. During normal breathing, the bands of muscles that surround the airways are relaxed, and air moves freely. But in people with asthma, the bands of muscle surrounding the airways tighten and air cannot move freely.

Find Out How to Reduce and Eliminate Chronic Back Pain Using Non-Traditional Therapy

Complementary therapy is concerned with health and wellness from a mind, body and spirit approach. As a past sufferer of back pain resulting from injury and a congenital disorder, I understand how challenging it can be to live with back pain.

The GOOD news is you don’t have to. Studies actually suggest that most chronic back pain can be relieved in just six short weeks.

Pain is an inevitable part of life. In living with a chronic illness or chronic pain, pain is no stranger to us and we are likely to endure more than the average person may endure. Much of the pain that we experience can’t be eliminated or treated, so we have no choice but to learn to live with it. In my struggle to learn how to do this and to still find meaning and purpose in life I have learned many things and developed a new relationship with my pain.