Posts Tagged ‘immunity’

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    Q: Why Am I Getting Sinus Infections?
    Q Here in the Pacific Northwest, the damp winter weather seems to affect my sinuses. When the barometric pressure changes, I get an infection. How can I avoid or prevent these infections despite the seasonal weather change? I’m not taking any medication. Carol C Portland, Oregon A You’ve hit the nail on the head! The key to your question is preventing sinus...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at February 25th, 2010 at 09:02 am
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    Hydrotherapy Immune Booster
    Dr. Gibran Ramos: We’ve been using water therapeutically for centuries. In Germany and France, there are towns that derive their names from their healing waters. The Norwegians and Swedes are famous for their saunas and some of the Turkish baths in Istanbul are hundreds of years old. The Native Americans used sweats to drive out illness. Hydrotherapy is derived...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at January 25th, 2010 at 08:01 am
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    Cooking and Healing with Thyme
    A long spell of deep cold knocked back the last of my greens and there’s a fairly even layer of deciduous leaves covering the ground, punctuated by bare limbs and decomposing stalks. My garden is pretty much hibernating. But one of the bright points this time of year is my thyme, which looks sprightly despite the January gloom. Herbalists like to play around with lists....
    by Dr. Orna Izakson at January 7th, 2010 at 05:01 am
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    6 Great Reasons to Start a Garden
    My favorite seed catalog came in today’s mail: organic Floriani red flint corn, green meat radish, Bolivian rainbow pepper, purple pac choy, ruby streaks mustard. These are the reasons I started gardening–I was awed by the incredible diversity of life I could sustain on my little corner of earth. There were other reasons too. After my urban upbringing, I longed...
    by Dr. Orna Izakson at December 17th, 2009 at 05:12 am
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    Treating Kids This Flu Season
    Concerned parents have been calling my office this week asking for advice on how to best treat their feverish sniffling tots. Knowing what to look for will help you decide if home remedies are appropriate or if a visit to the doctor is in order. While it’s a natural instinct to give a sick child medicine, holding off at first is the best bet for their still developing...
    by Christine Dionese L.Ac at November 11th, 2009 at 06:11 am
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    Tips and Tricks for Better Digestion
    Sunday dinners with my Italian-American family always included aunts, great aunts, countless cousins, and my grandmother, yelling from the stove while stirring her sauce. We gathered around her table, feasting for hours on the generous servings she produced from the kitchen. While my grandmother’s cooking will always hold a special place in my stomach, it’s also...
    by Christine Dionese L.Ac at November 5th, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    A Recipe for Flu Fighting Tea
    I was recently on business in Bangkok when I awoke with the type of bone aching pain I thought could only happen in cheap Halloween movies. I felt as though I had some form of the plague, avian flu or swine flu. With no idea where to go or who to see in Bangkok I made this really simple, extremely powerful antiviral, immune system-enhancing, microbe-crushing tea. I drank...
    by Dr. Nishant Rao at November 4th, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    Vaccinations 101
    The H1N1 virus has led to the death of 28 pregnant women and 60 children in the U.S. so it’s no wonder the topic of vaccination is on everyone’s mind. This year’s influenza is virulent and should be considered a serious threat. How the vaccine works The influenza vaccine, which includes the H1N1 vaccine is made on an annual basis. Because the influenza...
    by Dr. Gibran Ramos at October 8th, 2009 at 05:10 am