by Dr. Melissa Carr | Oct 21, 2016 | Fun facts, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Did you know that the average person sighs about 12 times an hour, or about every 5 minutes? You likely don’t even notice that you’re doing it, unless someone points it out, perhaps asking if you’re okay. So, why do we sigh? In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM),...
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 | Apr 19, 2016 | Food, Healthy Habits, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Perhaps you’ve been told to cut back on salt, to limit your intake of saturated fats, and to eat more fibre. But, I think that the most common dietary mistake in our modern world is, for many of us, too much sugar. The problem is that we’re designed to...
by Dr. Melissa Carr | Mar 10, 2016 | Acupuncture, Arthritis, Back Pain, Bone Health, fertility, Stress, Traditional Chinese Medicine
When patients come in to address particular organ health, they most often mention their heart, their liver, their lungs, or the various organs of their digestive system and reproductive system, but rarely does someone ask me about their kidneys. Your kidneys do a...
