Herbs & Formulas

From a Chinese medicine perspective, the nature of COVID-19 is a form of damp-heat disease. It is easily misdiagnosed as Yin deficiency or damp-coldness in people with underlying chronic inflammation and compromised immunity because the damp-heat symptoms can be easily masked by these conditions. Constitutional patterns: 1. Chronic inflammation — for such people, as soon […]

Ink Moxa 墨灸 (Mò Jiū) is an ancient Japanese pediatric dermatological treatment method originated from the Komai family.  It is unclear when it was first practiced.  It started as folk medicine when Lacquer was used instead of ink, recorded in a「近江輿地志略」 in 1733. Because young children tend not to stay still and they do not