How many people are out there suffering with insomnia? Too many. The numbers are astounding, I am sure. What is worse is that there is little out there that really addresses insomnia in a successful manner. What is worse is that numerous people become addicted to meds that help with sleep, often benzodiazapenes, which create a cycle of illness in the body that, in some cases, may take years to recover from. Other people turn to over the counter type products like tylenol pm or exedrin fo a good night's sleep, but that comes along with its own set of side effects that may lead to problems much bigger than insomnia.

There are many wonderful sleep clinics and therapists that offer help with this problem. But, there is little talk about how much Chinese medicine can help with this dreadful issue. Chinese medical texts are rich with information on insomnia and its underlying causes. There is so much we can do for this condition alone or as a part of another chronic problem.

We use methods to try and address the underlying imbalance. As that imbalance is addressed, not only the insomnia, but other unwanted symptoms should improve.

Please consider Chinese medicine if you or someone else is suffering from insomnia! 

Someone asked me yesterday if she should not treat her kids with herbs often bc this will weaken their immunity like using antibiotics, or NSAIDS such as advil or tylenol. Those can and do actually complicate things and often drive the virus or the bacteria in deeper and will likely create a situation in which the pathogen will come back again soon or turn into something more chronic.

My answer is that I do not believe this is true at all. Using responsible herbal therapy is meant to work WITH the body, not AGAINST it. Thus treating with herbs allows the body to express viruses or bacteria that have invaded by working with the body.

I recommend using herbs the minute you see your child is sick. Stop their vitamins and probiotics when you do this. Those kinds of supplements are meant to strengthen a person. So, if you take them when you are sick, they will strengthen the sickness. Make sense?

When the child is not sick, that is when you use your strengthening kinds of supplements and diet to work on immunity and making their immune system more strong.

This methodology has worked really well for us in our family and really well for our patient's children. We have had great success with this kind of protocol no matter what the general health is of the person involved.

These are the kinds of concepts we work hard to teach our patients when they come to a clinic like ours and why we end up working with so many families. Typically when we get a patient, we end up with another family in our practice for life. This realtionship works well as adjunctive healthcare along with your child's pediatrician or your general practitioner.

Someone asked me yesterday if she should not treat her kids with herbs often bc this will weaken their immunity like using antibiotics, or NSAIDS such as advil or tylenol. Those can and do actually complicate things and often drive the virus or the bacteria in deeper and will likely create a situation in which the pathogen will come back again soon or turn into something more chronic.

My answer is that I do not believe this is true at all. Using responsible herbal therapy is meant to work WITH the body, not AGAINST it. Thus treating with herbs allows the body to express viruses or bacteria that have invaded by working with the body.

I recommend using herbs the minute you see your child is sick. Stop their vitamins and probiotics when you do this. Those kinds of supplements are meant to strengthen a person. So, if you take them when you are sick, they will strengthen the sickness. Make sense?

When the child is not sick, that is when you use your strengthening kinds of supplements and diet to work on immunity and making their immune system more strong.

This methodology has worked really well for us in our family and really well for our patient's children. We have had great success with this kind of protocol no matter what the general health is of the person involved.

These are the kinds of concepts we work hard to teach our patients when they come to a clinic like ours and why we end up working with so many families. Typically when we get a patient, we end up with another family in our practice for life. This realtionship works well as adjunctive healthcare along with your child's pediatrician or your general practitioner.

One hears the word detox amongst friends perhaps not often, but often enough. I hear that word constructed in a question form at the clinic all the time. People have been increasingly interested in the idea of doing a "detox" to get healthy these days.

In our humble opinions, the general kinds of detoxes out there, especially when done without professional supervision, can cause a lot of harm. There are many detoxification products that a person can buy in the health food store quite easily that may seem benign. But, if that person is wanting to do a detox, then something is probably not quite right in the first place inside their body. Using a detox product or protocol could actually create a situation in which, the straw that breaks the camel's back occurs.

Once this has happened, a person can get so sick with horrible stomach pains, bowel disturbances and even bladder disturbances. They could also experience a severe toxic feeling and extreme lethargy. I have had people so sick that they have had to quit their jobs in circumstances such as these.

In a few cases, I have had people cause themselves chronic illness that took them more than two years to get healthy from.  The body has particular ways in which it functions, and going WITH that physiology is important, not against. Using the power of the body to help you get healthier is really the way to go when it comes to achieving optimal health.

So, please think twice before you go and buy that over the counter product that is going to give you the gold key to health and youth. It actually may be a key to Pandora's box! 

It seems we are a nation of many diseases that have inflammation at its root. Why is this? In our
opinion it is because we have poor diets and take medications unnecessarily and incorrectly.

The sugar and alcohol and over consumption of starch in our diets all lead to inflammation and imbalances in our intestines. The chemicals we consume within our processed foods not to mention the hormones and antibiotics--all lead to more imbalance and later inflammation as well.

We take antibiotics for things we shouldn't. Overuse of antibiotics cause great problems within our own bodies compromising flora balance in our intestines, which, then goes to effect everything else in our body's "ecosystem". This practice effects us as a society as well. This is the reason we now have super bugs that don't respond to antibiotics, MRSA being the star bacteria in this category.
 
The list of medications that we take for things that could be addressed with something as simple as diet is long. I won't go into it here, but consider all of the medications that you take or your friends and think to yourself for one moment how changing your diet may make a bigger difference to you in your life than taking that medication. 

For those of you who dont know, your skin is your largest organ. Your skin is like a sponge, soaking up all that you put on it. In the early stages of my practice, I did not realize how much people wee being affected by their skin care products. As time passes, I began to connect the dots. Pain levels could be as different as night and day depending on product use. 

In other words, a person could be doing everything correctly, but, using products that are upsetting their system. This in turn could be making pain levels rise.

It took me a long time to realize this and to understand that even most of the natural products out there could cause pain. Even healthy ingredients such as vitamin E used as a natural preservative causes pain!

This is what BOMASENSE was born out of. Please think of bomasense when you are going through alternative and non alternative treatments for your IC or any other chronic disease for that matter. It may just be the difference in your treatment!

Go to bomasense.com for more information.

Often we go to the dermatologist because of a dark mark or small growth or rash somewhere on our body. Or, we may go to our internist because our hair is shedding too much or because we have toenail fungus or we may even have have more serious problems with such things as edema or hives. I give these examples because these are often things that come without a diagnosis. These are things that often your Western medical doctor will treat and take care of, but the origin may not be fully understood.

What is really interesting is to look at the situation from the perspective of Chinese medicine. Often these external signs and symptoms (and these are only a very few simple examples) are meaningful to what is going on on the inside of the body. In the absence of your doctor finding something really wrong in these instances, this is where Chinese medicine shines. We use these kinds of outwardly signs and symptoms to determine imbalances in and between various organs.
We also determine the kinds of imbalances that are going on. There are many ways in which to determine imbalances that are quite detailed and complex. 

It is very common for someone to have a growth on one area of their skin, say, over their eyebrow, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and low back pain. These otherwise would seem like unrelated issues, but we would not look at it in that way. We would delineate a line that connects these seemingly unrelated issues to substantiate a syndrome of imbalance.

So, next time you go to your Western medical doctor or two or three with all of these separate complaints, think about including us on your list of stops. Maybe we can shed some light and perspective on the situation that you did not anticipate! 

Imbalances often have to do with the state of our emotions. There is a two way street between how our minds effect our body and how our body effects our mind. T o live and breath and take a moment to smell the flowers so to speak. Take one moment for this! Pay close attention when you are watching this and see how it makes you feel in both your mind as well as your body.

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