Yin and Yang is a huge component in the diagnosis in Chinese medicine. 4 Main Components in Your Body: Yin Yang Qi Blood For your body to be in perfect health, these 4 aspects need to be balanced, most especially Yin and Yang. What is Chinese Medicine? Chinese herbal medicine ...
Gua Sha is an ancient technique where the skin is scraped with a blunt-edged tool to produce a therapeutic effect. “Gua” means the process of scraping the skin, and “Sha” is the petechiae, or the redness that is created. With Gua Sha, we take super short or very long strokes ...
The majority of our classic textbooks say that Chinese medicine has been around between 2000 to 3000 years. However, archeologists have found bone fragments and bamboo needle-like instruments that date back to 6000 years ago. They believe that these artifacts were originally used for acupuncture needles. They also found many ...
Menopause is an often unpleasant experience that happens to every woman at some point. Menopause is usually considered to have occurred once you have missed your monthly menstruation period for 12 consecutive months, but there are several other symptoms that can accompany this life change. Signs of menopause: Irregular monthly ...
With so many restrictions surrounding air travel, many people have questions about traveling with essential oils. It's best to use 5-15 milliliter bottles that are then stored in one clear plastic container or bag. All of the liquids need to be less than 100 milliliters, with a grand total of ...
#1 – Chronic bend in the hip Prolonged sitting and long drives often result in a chronic bend at the hips. If you don’t focus on straightening out your hips, this chronic bend leads to more tightness that will eventually lead to anterior hip pain. Always remember to straighten out ...
Shyloe Fayad is Okanagan based and the CEO & Founder of Happiness Habits and Radical Wondering Collective. In this article, she discusses the difference between an anxiety attack and panic attack, symptoms of a panic attack, and the 5 most important things that you need to know to deal with ...
Shyloe Fayad is Okanagan based and the CEO & Founder of Happiness Habits and Radical Wondering Collective. In this article, she delves into social anxiety, the challenges associated with social anxiety and the ways to treat anxiety. This is the 2nd article in a series of 3. What is Social ...
Shyloe Fayad is Okanagan based and the CEO & Founder of Happiness Habits and Radical Wondering Collective. In this article she discusses anxiety, what it is, and how do you know if you have it. And this is the 1st article in a 3 part series. What is Anxiety? Anxiety ...
#1 – Too Much Toes Putting too much weight on your toes activates the muscles around your knees, especially the quads. This pulls on the knee caps and pushes the knee caps up against the knee joints. If you frequently wear high heels or are more of a ‘toe walker', ...
