This is Part 3 of a series. Part 1 is From All Illness Has 8 Stages to Liver Stagnation as the Root of All Problems and Part 2 is Cancer and Hormonal Conditions — Diet May Be Important, but Resolving Childhood Conflict Is Key. The grandparent article Parenting and Grandparenting Relationships Amongst the Major TCM Organ Pairs runs alongside this series as a personal clinical companion. The man with the fan I met someone recently who was wearing fan necklace. I asked about it

This is Part 2 of a series. If it is of interest to you, you can start with Part 1: From All Illness Has 8 Stages to Liver Stagnation as the Root of All Problems and Part 3 can be found here: Just Because Not Everyone Is Ready to Hear It Doesn't Mean It Isn't True — What I Couldn't Say to the Man with the Fan What Master Yan's framework (Part 1) helps us understand about cancer and sugar Master Yan's framework maps well onto what many people with systemic hormonal conditions

Master Yan sent us this: "Depression, Joint Pain, Yellow Skin, Poor Sleep — Actually One Problem You go to the hospital but they can't find anything. Yet the problem is real and present. ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Do You Have These Problems? Joint pain, especially in the tendons and bones — ache here, hurt there. Frequent leg cramps, and varicose veins becoming more noticeable. Yellow skin, no glow, no matter how much you care for it. Severe ha

There is a scene in a medical drama where a surgeon says: "I'm a surgeon. I don't do prevention." That's the difference between what mainstream medicine offers and what I do. But like a surgeon, I also assess risk before choosing a path forward. Why I can't always start with physical healing When someone comes to me with serious physical symptoms — cancer relapse, serious systemic illness, debilitating accident — my first question is not "what is wrong with the body?" It is "

Most people think of diabetes as a blood sugar problem. RestoreChi and TCM see it differently — and the difference matters because, by the time blood sugar shows up in a test, the body has already been compensating for a long time. A distribution problem, not a blood sugar problem The liver converts carbohydrates to glucose. The small intestine absorbs nutrients. The spleen distributes what has been absorbed — sending white and red blood cells, calcium, and nutrients to where

I fell asleep treating sciatica directly. It helped a little but didn't clear. When I moved support to my left kidney instead, the pain finally released by morning. The loudest symptom isn't always the root — and perimenopause is one of the times that matters most.

Our kids have 6 grandparents. When I try to think about who has the best relationship with them, what seems to matter most is: being young enough to play with them, knowing and respecting your own limits so you do not overdo it and take it out on the kids, working through your own issues so you do not blame the kids for what you did not or do not have, and trusting their parent to do a good job — because the grandparent is supposed to support the parent, not take over their j

In January 2024 I finally got the medical imaging device for Esogetic Medicine. I quickly took some photos just to see if the camera worked, but didn't analyze them until March 2024. When I did, I was scared — a sign for potential heart attack risk showed up in my husband's photo: If you are new to Kirlian photography, the short version is this: a Kirlian photo captures the energy coming off the fingertips and toes, and maps it to the organ systems of the body. Things tend to

When nothing else works for a headache, the answer might be in the liver — and the exit is definitely not be through the head. That's just how the body cries for help: A kirlian photo of the big toes can show us if the person has unprocessed emotions that are causing liver fire stagnation to back up into the head, which is just the way the body lets us know that it needs help redirecting the toxins down and out through a bowel movement I have headaches from time to time, and