I have seen an overwhelming epidemic of patients in my practice, with hip, knee, and shoulder issues. Currently we are living longer and exercising more than previous generations, which create more wear and tear on our joints and tendons. Conventional medicine’s approach is to mask and manage these problems with different types of pain killers and other drugs. Western medicine uses everything from cortisone shots, to taking pain killers several times a day. This can actually make the root of the problem worse, because pain is the body’s alarm system letting us know when something is wrong. Drugs just turn off this alarm, which in turn makes us think we are better. When the pain killer wears off we are actually in worse shape, than prior to taking the painkillers. When patients gets to...

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine are one the oldest and most proven forms of medicine. They are over 3000 years old and is now one of the fastest growing fields of medicine in the United States. There are a lot of unanswered questions people have about this medicine. I will try to put it in “layman’s terms” that will be easier to understand. The biggest difference between Western and Eastern Medicine is that : Western medicine primarily concentrates on symptoms and Eastern medicine concentrates on the root of the symptoms. For example: if disease is a tree, the symptoms would be the branches and if you were to trim the branches the tree would continue to grow. Western Medicine on the average, masks the symptoms and the disease continues to grow. While, Eastern Medicine looks at the...

An estimated 43 million people in the United States have arthritis or other rheumatic conditions. By the year 2020, this number is expected to jump to 60 million. (NIH Pub. No. 02-4999) There’s few viable options in our drug based western medicine model in the United States. Biopuncture is an alternative way to surgery and drugs that is catching on in the U.S. It was become so main stream, that Dr. Oz dedicated two shows on Biopuncture, on his T.V. show.

Biopuncture combines two schools of thought: Acupuncture and Homeopathy. Acupuncture recognizes pain as Qi (chee) and blood stagnation. The body is made up of electrical channels called meridians and when these meridians get dammed up by the stagnation of Qi and Blood, pain occurs. Pain is just a signal to the individual that...

Have you ever realized that the word diet has DIE in it. When people go on a diet, they are literally killing themselves, by not eating or eating things that are not right for their body type. There isn’t one diet that works for everyone because we are all individually unique. It seems like every year around this time a new fad diet comes out and everyone jumps on the “bandwagon”. Please don’t be fooled or sold to, I want to show you a way of eating that has been in existence for over 4,000 years. The Asian way of eating, caters to the individual and their health needs.

The United States is the most over fed malnourished country in the world. Our health care is ranked 37th in the world by the World Health Organization. (W.H.O) If, your not looking out for yourself than you fall...