Cholesterol, Blessing or Curse?
There is a quite a bit of attention paid to cholesterol with regards to health these days and for good reason. Poor cholesterol metabolism can be a good indicator of heart or coronary artery disease. It can also be a predictor of aging as I will explain later. Basically, there are two main components of […]
Congestive Heart Failure and Acupuncture (CHF)
Chinese medicine is a distinct system of pathology, diagnosis and treatment. As many know Chinese medicine has been practiced in some form for over 2000 years. What many do not realize is that within this 2000 years is a rich history of clinical observation on how to treat chronic disease states. Modern conventional medicine has […]
Low Back Pain and Infra-red Therapy
What Causes Chronic Low-back Pain and Why Doesn’t it Heal? Pain in the lower back which is the L1-L5 vertebrae of the lumbar system and the fused S1-S5 of the sacral system is caused by many factors. Improper bio-mechanics which means an imbalance in the muscles of the body, DJD or degenerative joint […]
Low back pain
A Case of Four Different Painful Backs What is back pain and how does it occur? Back pain is a noticeable level of pain that can impede one’s usual daily routine or make rest uncomfortable. Back pain originates from the nerves of the spinal column (most common), the muscles, the joints in the rib cage […]
Auto-Immunity and Chinese Herbal Medicine
By Dr. Frank Ervolino The ancient Chinese medical practitioners were very proficient at tracking case outcomes over time and this led to long clinical histories in treating various symptom pictures that are now identified in the west as named disorders. One of these would be called autoimmune disorders in Western pathology. It is interesting to […]
Erectile Dysfunction Treatment
Erectile dysfunction is mainly due to 2 physiological processes. The first is low levels of nitric oxide in the blood and the second is mainly due to glucose mediated nerve damage. The former is due to aging while the latter is due to diabetes mainly. While nothing can be done for nerve damage there’s a […]
Eczema in Children
At treasure Coast Community Acupuncture we often see very young children with classic eczema on the knees, elbows, chest and face. It amazes us how many doctors the parents have been to and how little progress they have made. Infant eczema has to do with programming the immune system of the child. It also has […]
Vegetarians and B-12-A mea culpa from me
I have been hammering vegetarians for years on how following a vegetarian diet could lead to a b-12 deficiency. I was especially emphatic about this with women because they menstruate and the loss of blood means this is more of an issue. Well, I decided to look into it and research now shows that if […]
What is the Mission of Treasure Coast Community Acupuncture (TCCA)
There is a undercurrent in medicine these days that will profoundly change the way medicine is practiced in this country in the future. That undercurrent takes advantage of the power of the populace of this country which is powerful enough to even oppose large medical corporations which seem to be firmly in control of our […]
Is RICE Dead? Why Ice Delays Recovery by Gabe Mirkin MD
March 20, 2014 by Gabe Mirkin, MD When I wrote my best-selling Sportsmedicine Book in 1978, I coined the term RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) for the treatment of athletic injuries (Little Brown and Co., page 94). Ice has been a standard treatment for injuries and sore muscles because it helps to relieve pain caused […]