A combination of acupuncture treatments, herbs and herbal formulas, dietary, stress reduction and lifestyle changes could all be recommended based on your personal history and evaluation.

IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome is not an Oriental medicine diagnosis. We use the western terminology only in the sense that someone tends to walk into the office requesting help for this problem. Their MD has already diagnosed most of the people we see with IBS.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) considers the relationship of each symptom to the whole body. We direct our attention to your complete physiological and psychological presentation, which includes all signs and symptoms of the body, mind and spirit.

Signs are objective. These are what the physician can see, hear, smell, taste or feel, and can be verified by another physician.

Symptoms are subjective. These are what you relate about what you can see, hear, smell, taste or feel. All the information is collected and woven together until it forms a “pattern of disharmony”.

Your particular pattern of disharmony will form the framework of your treatment plan. The plan of care is developed based on the ancient principles of TCM, one of the oldest holistic medical systems in the world.

My goal of care is always to bring your body back into balance or homeostasis, thereby, awakening your inherent ability to heal yourself.

If you want to avoid taking drugs and relying on artificial means to control your irritable bowel symptoms, you may want to consider herbal therapy. With Herb Consults, I take the time to determine what herbs and herbal medicines would benefit you the most, along with dietary and lifestyle changes.

You should expect to receive more than one herbal formula to balance the gastro-intestinal system helping to reduce and eventually bringing your IBS problem under control. And remember, that the herbs work gradually over time to assist your body in healing itself.

I can start you on the way and help you to bring your IBS problem under control and learn to manage it; but it’s up to all of us to incorporate healthy diets, activities and habits in our daily life to become and stay well.

About the author: Christine Hasinger, DOM, Acupuncturist and Herbalist, has a private practice in Palm Harbor, Florida at the Blue Orchid Healing Center. She offers personal and individualized herbal consultations via phone and email through Herb Consults.

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So you can rest assured that treating women’s gynecological problems with herbal medicine has truly been tested by time.

Many factors can influence your reproductive organ system, such as cold, dampness, heat, and stress. Diet, overwork, pregnancy and childbirth can also play a role in some gynecological problems.

Since the reproductive organ system is not essential to life or health, your body will divert food and energy from it when other organ systems are in need. This could be happening and you would not even be aware of it.

Extreme examples of this are women who run long distance marathons or suffer from anorexia or bulemia. Haven’t you heard of women whose periods have stopped from running or dieting too much?

The premise of Traditional Chinese Medicine is that imbalances in your energy flow cause disease, and utilizing herbal formulas is a way to create and maintain the proper symmetry required by the body.

Oriental medicine has always emphasized holistic care to regain and maintain health, especially in the matter of women’s health. This includes acupuncture, herbs and herbal medicines, dietary modifications, stress reduction, exercise, and including mental, emotional and spiritual needs in your daily life.

Chinese Herbal Medicine has proven to be very effective in treating the following reproductive related conditions:

• Amenorhea (no periods)
• PMS – Pre-menstrual syndrome
• Menstruation Problems
• Dysmennorhea (period pain)
• Irregular periods
• Endometriosis
• Fibroids
• PCOS – PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome
• Infertility including unexplained infertility
• Fluid Retention
• Backache
• Postpartum Depression
• Peri-menopause
• Hot Flashes and Night Sweats
• Menopausal symptoms
• Stress Incontinence
• Anxiety and Depression
• Aches and Pains

About the author: Christine Hasinger, DOM, Acupuncturist and Herbalist, has a private practice in Palm Harbor, Florida at the Blue Orchid Healing Center. She offers personal and individualized herbal consultations via phone and email through Herb Consults.

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Chinese Herbal Medicine has a mind-bogglingly amount of historical evidence that it has been in existence for at least 3,000 years. Tangible proof resides in the earliest known book that survives today called Prescriptions for 52 Diseases (Wu Shi Er Bing Fang). This book dates back to the eighth century B.C.

There are some scholars that estimate Chinese Herbal Medicine has been in existence for 10,000 years. This is projected from herbal formulas written on shells and bones that have survived to this day. It is believed that the herbal medicine is far older than the practice of acupuncture, which is thought to have developed approximately 5,000 years ago.

Western medicine advocates often belittle herbal medicine. They argue that it is not scientific and state there is little or no research on it. They imply that it is folk medicine from the dark ages and should be discarded because it not modern and new.

The 20th century delusion in the Western world is that anything scientific or newly discovered must be better to everything and anything that came before it. They think the only knowledge of value is knowledge and data derived during the past 50 years.

In the United States there is a disturbing trend to denigrate anything that does not originate within its borders by the medical community. Western MD’s often have the mindset that if they didn’t learn about it in medical school its not valid. (I can’t tell you how many times a MD has told me, there is insufficient research to prove the validity of acupuncture, let alone herbal medicine.)

A quick comparison –

• Prozac, a popular antidepressant, was introduced in 1989, and studied for about 10 years prior to release in clinical trials. So let’s give Prozac about a 30-year lifespan so far. Do you think Prozac will be around in another 30 years? Hasn’t it been in the news as causing some of the same problems it’s supposed to help such as the Columbine shootings? If you’re interested, just do a quick search online and you’ll find plenty of information that people think it’s harmful.
• An herbal formula, Xiao Chai Hu Tang Wan (Minor Bupleurum) dates from before 219 A.D. and is mentioned in the Shang Han Lun (a publication of that time). This herbal medicine has been in continuous use in Chinese Herbal Medicine for almost 2,000 years. If it were as dangerous as some drugs being prescribed today, it would have been discarded. Xiao Chai Hu Tang Wan remains one of the more commonly prescribed herbal medicines today.

In the real world, any medicine that has little effect and doesn’t improve a patient’s symptoms will no longer be offered in a very short time simply because it doesn’t work. Ineffective treatment will not be continued – the populace will not tolerate it, even when it is forced upon them.

Just consider for a moment that if a treatment or herbal medicine has existed for several hundred years wouldn’t you think it has proven its effectiveness? Chinese Herbal Medicine has proven its usefulness in the experience of thousands – if not millions of patients and doctors. This is a far more exacting and rigorous standard than testing lab rats.

Having health problems? It may be time to consider using Chinese Herbal Medicine.

About the author: Christine Hasinger, DOM, Acupuncturist and Herbalist, has a private practice in Palm Harbor, Florida at the Blue Orchid Healing Center. She offers personal and individualized herbal consultations via phone and email through Herb Consults.

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