by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jun 30, 2016 | Digestion, Traditional Chinese Medicine
IBD is short for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and it includes chronic inflammation at any or all parts of the bowels. The most common types of inflammatory bowel disease are Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis, but inflammation of the rectum is also possible, and it’s...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jun 21, 2016 | Alternative Medicine, depression, Happiness, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Here I’m going to start with the bad, so I can illustrate the power of something you could call a natural medicine. A study in the 1950s by Dr. Carl Richter involved taking rats and putting them through a forced swim test. Rats can swim, and the rats they used...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Jun 14, 2016 | Food, headache, Health Tips, Healthy Habits, Traditional Chinese Medicine
I recently wrote an article, Sweet in the Modern World (pages 7-9), for Medicinal Roots Magazine. As a result, Michael Max, an acupuncturist in the US, contacted me to ask me to join him to talk about sugar’s health effects on his podcast channel, Everyday...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | May 26, 2016 | Food, immune system, lung health, Recipe
Steamed Pears for Dry Cough Though it’s no longer cold and flu season, some people I’ve seen are suffering from a lingering dry cough. The cough could also be from allergies. So, in addition to treating the immune system, what can you do? How about a...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | May 26, 2016 | Acupuncture, injury, neuropathic pain, Pain
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome–TOS, for short When it first began with shoulder and upper back, I thought it was just muscular tension from leaning over the computer or patients as I’m doing acupuncture. But as the initial pain resolved and the throbbing pain...
