胖大海為梧桐科植物胖大海的乾燥成熟種子。在傳統中醫 (TCM) 中， 胖大海屬甘、寒藥物。其與肺及大腸經相關，具有多種健康益處。
胖大海可以潤肺，當您突然肺熱聲啞並伴有咳嗽、口渴或喉嚨痛時，服用它有所幫助。當您拉緊聲音時（例如大聲呼喊），就會發生這種情況。
胖大海可以緩解腹脹、消化不良，及便秘等症狀。它具幫助消化，也具有溫和的通便作用。
您可以嘗試以下胖大海的食療方法：
服用這種草藥時要注意：
如果您有以下症狀，則應避免服用胖大海:
以上是一般準則。請諮詢中醫尋找適合您的治療計劃。
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免責聲明：本文僅供參考，它不能替代專業的醫療建議、診斷或治療。應向您的醫生或其他合格的健康提供者尋求建議。
我們最近經常聽到很多人一直承受著很大壓 力。壓力不僅影響健康，也影響生活及工作。 越來越多人在尋求針灸及中藥來緩解或減輕 壓力症狀。
古語有云「川流不息」，健康有賴於「氣」及 體液流動。不健康的生活方式或身心受損都 會導致氣滯。而針灸治療可以改善身體的能 量。
每天進行以下㪽的部位按摩亦可以緩解壓力：
將雙手放在肋骨部位，用手掌來回搓揉10 秒，每天2-3次。這個部位按摩是適合所有承 受著壓力人士。
以上僅供參考。請諮詢持牌中醫師以找到適 合您健康的治療計劃。
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在中醫的理論中，我們特別注意季節對身體的影響。西瓜是一種性味甘寒的時令水果。它消暑解渴，是對抗那些酷熱的天氣的佳品。
簡單的夏季糖水食譜：
材料
煮沸一鍋水。倒入西米，用中火煮約 15 分鐘或直至呈半透明狀。將西米倒入筲箕，再用凍水沖洗直至水變清澈，然後繼續把西米留在凍水浸泡。將椰漿倒入一個小平底鍋中，如有需要可以添加適量糖。加入西米後可關火，在上面放上西瓜後即可享用！這糖水在溫熱下或凍食均可。
注意：西瓜對於體質較弱的人可能太涼。可嘗試用芒果、蜜瓜或芋頭代替。
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玫瑰象徵愛情，而玫瑰花茶更可助你放鬆心情。
在中醫理論，肝主疏泄，意指肝有疏通、調暢全身氣血運行的作用。如氣血運行不暢，人便很感到煩躁、容易生氣及緊張激動；中醫會稱之為「肝氣鬱結」，常發生在工作壓力大、情緒受創或熬夜的人身上。
玫瑰花性質溫和，帶有微甜。玫瑰花茶不但味美，而且有益身心健康；它可以促進肝疏泄功能及血液循環。
玫瑰茶製作方法：
中醫建議：由於玫瑰花茶會容易影響氣血運行，不宜每天飲用。此外，月經、懷孕或腹瀉期間需要慎用。請諮詢中醫師以找到適合您健康的治療計劃。
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以上資訊僅供參考。想了解哪些治療適合您，歡迎聯絡我們或向持牌針灸師諮詢。
The first time someone told Christy to try acupuncture she thought, “that’s a load of crap.” A corporate immigration lawyer in San Francisco, Christy was struggling with allergy flare-ups including hive outbreaks, seasonal hay fever, and skin that felt like it was on fire.
“As a partner in a corporate law firm, I am responsible for a lot of people, and always strive to do the best for my clients. Unfortunately, that means I don’t always take the best care of myself,” she reflects.Western doctors were unable to pinpoint the source of Christy’s allergies, and prescribed pharmaceutical medication. While drugs knocked out the hive symptoms, they also brought unwanted side effects. Christy often felt sleepy. She stayed on the medication for a few years, but the outbreaks returned. Allergists did more tests and prescribed more medicine, and that’s when Christy decided to try another approach.
“I wanted to understand what was causing my flare-ups, not just mask the pain with drugs,” says Christy.
After trying a few different acupuncturists, Christy came to East West Health Services at Chinese Hospital in 2014, and began working with Sabine Huey, . Today, she not only has her allergies under control without medication, but she also feels better than ever.
“Sabine and all the providers at East West don’t just do treatments; they help you understand what is happening inside your body, and how to feel your best,” says Christy.
Sabine has helped Christy learn what triggers her allergies and her underlying stress. She now understands the impact that different foods, temperatures, and stressors have on her symptoms. This has given her more control to manage her own health.
“Sabine knows me in a way that I don’t even know myself. There are times when I don’t think I’m stressed, but my body says something else. She asks the right questions to assess what I need. I always trust her to get my body leveled out,” says Christy.
Beyond stress and allergy management—Christy has been hive-free for years—acupuncture has helped this busy lawyer relieve aches and pains, regulate her menstrual cycle off birth control, and prepare her body to start a family.
An avid spinner, Laura Andersen did not want her lower back pain, which had flared on and off for years, to keep her off the bike. Regular stretching, massage, and over-the-counter medication were only providing limited relief. Now, with regular acupuncture treatments at East West, she is finally free of the constant tightness, soreness, and achiness she had been living with. Laura loves the spa-like atmosphere in the clinic, and looks forward to her weekly treatments as relaxation and healing time.
Stella Lochman is an active 34-year-old Public Engagement Manager for the SFMOMA. Last summer, she was diagnosed with hypertension. “I had the blood pressure of a 70-year-old obese man,” she describes. Determined to feel better and not be on blood pressure medication for the rest of her life, Stella turned to acupuncture.
Stella is passionate about her work placing artists’ projects in the community, and bringing community artists into the SFMOMA for residencies. “It’s really fun. And it’s also really stressful,” she says. She was regularly logging 65-hour weeks, but wasn’t taking any time for herself. “I was kind of a mess. My body was done with me,” she remembers.
At the advice of her primary care physician, Stella quit smoking. She also went off of birth control medication. Despite these big changes, her blood pressure didn’t budge. This contributed even more to her stress and anxiety. Stella started going to the gym five days a week, doing 45 minutes of cardio. She was prescribed two different types of blood pressure medication, but didn’t like the way these drugs made her feel—tired all of the time. After a few months of struggling with these changes, she decided to try acupuncture.
Sabine Huey, , made Stella feel comfortable and confident from her first visit to East West Health Services. “She was sweet and professional, and I could feel her enthusiasm for her practice,” Stella remembers. After the first session, Stella’s blood pressure had dropped 20 points. She came back weekly, and noticed that the positive BP change lasted longer and longer after each time. “Sabine explained to me that with each session, I was building up my own army in my body.”
The East West Clinic is conveniently located just steps from Stella’s office, at the intersection of Chinatown and FiDi. “It’s right by my work, so I can just walk there on my lunch break. I have yummy Chinese food for lunch,” she says.
After three months of weekly sessions, Stella’s blood pressure stabilized. Now, she is able to maintain her healthy BP with once-a-month treatments.
In addition to seeing her numbers go down, Stella has experienced other benefits from acupuncture. “It’s a whole person treatment. On top of helping me feel better physically, Sabine is a life coach. When I came in with anxiety, she would tell me: ‘We’re going to work on making you feel more brave.’ She really helped to build me up mentally and emotionally.”
Sabine also helped Stella make the connections between different symptoms in her body. She showed her how her headaches and back aches were related to her stress and high blood pressure. “She’s able to see the whole picture in a way that my Western doctors, as much as I love and respect them, can’t always do.” Thanks to acupuncture, Stella has been able to come to her primary care doctors more informed about her body and her needs. She feels like those visits are more productive now, too.
假期即將來臨！ 您準備好與家人朋友一起聚餐慶祝嗎？然而，很多美味的食物都可能是高脂及高膽固醇的陷阱，並隨時會增加心臟病或中風的風險。
以下介紹的飲品，只需3 種簡單材料，但卻可以幫助降低膽固醇。您可以嘗試一下。
材料：蘋果1個、山楂15克、陳皮5克
準備：
此外，您可以將份量減半，把材料放入保溫瓶中，並加入熱水。等待至少30 分鐘即可享用。
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中醫有云「通則不痛，痛則不通」。
導致氣血不通的原因有很多，而壓力是主要原因之一。當我們感到壓力或沮喪時，氣血便會被影響而導致運行不順暢。症狀包括經常嘆息、喉嚨乾燥、胸悶、情緒不穩、煩躁、抑鬱、焦慮、心悸、失眠、經前症候群或消化問題。
要保持氣血順暢，您可以日常做一些鍛煉，也可以散步或做一些伸展運動。它不但可以通氣血，也可以提升心臟健康。
此外，您可以按摩「內關」穴來疏通經絡。此穴位於手腕橫紋下方3個手指處。每天深呼吸 3 次，輕按此穴30秒有助保持氣血順暢。
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“I was not sleeping well, and feeling stressed and run down,” describes Karla Zens, entrepreneur and owner of The JellyBus, remembering the first time she walked into an acupuncture treatment at East West Health Services. “When I stepped out into the street immediately afterward, I had a feeling of euphoria.” Fast forward four years; today, Karla feels healthier than ever in her body, mind, and spirit thanks to Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
At first, Karla looked to acupuncture to address general malaise resulting from poor self-care.
“I was stuck in a routine: sitting in front of a computer, not breathing properly, not sleeping enough, and definitely not practicing work life balance,” she recalls.
After her initial appointment, Karla began walking five blocks from her office to the downtown San Francisco clinic regularly to experience the physical benefits of acupuncture, making space for health and well-being in her busy routine.
“The atmosphere at East West is so welcoming and positive. I spend a lot of my life attending to my work, responsibilities, and to other people. At the clinic, I always feel taken care of.”
Sabine Huey, , looked deeply into Karla’s chronic symptoms of sluggishness, bloat, sugar cravings, and cold hands and feet, in order to address their root cause. She determined that Karla had liver Qi stagnation due to chronic stress.
“Qi is that vital energy that contributes to our state of health. It is everywhere in our body from bone to skin. Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners direct Qi using acupuncture and other modalities in order to treat a wide range of health conditions,” says Sabine.
Sabine utilized weekly acupuncture treatments alongside specific herbal formulas to smooth Karla’s liver Qi and tonify her spleen Qi (the vital energy for digestion).
“We also replaced cold foods with warm soups, teas, and cooked vegetables in order to optimize digestive energy and replenish spleen Qi,” says Sabine.
With Sabine’s guidance, Karla is now cooking regularly with whole, seasonal ingredients. She enjoys creating and choosing warm, nourishing foods over cold smoothies, salads, and other trendy health foods that did not agree with her body.
“I have learned to adapt my diet and eat in a way that is more in harmony with what I need,” Karla reflects.
Beyond nutrition, Karla has incorporated more mindfulness and physical exercise into her life, including breath work, yoga, and qigong. As a result, she feels lighter than ever, more energetic, and happier.