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Trevor Erikson of Acubalance Wellness in Vancouver and contributor to http://skin.health-info.org/ shares his personal clinical experience in using the skin as a tool to diagnose and treat fertility issues including recurrent pregnancy loss.


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Leslie Oldershaw discusses how high Cortisol levels and the stress response mechanism can suppress reproductive Function. At the end of the interview she discusses the connection between blood sugar levels and Cortisol related to PCOS.


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Understanding infertility and its treatment. This was a clinical rounds interview with Dr. Horn and it gives a background to the causes and treatment of infertility. There is a wealth of information in this lecture, however, the audience were medical doctors, acupuncturists, chiropractors and naturopathic physicians, so the information can be somewhat technical in part.



I'm considering studying at either International TCM College of Vancouver or PCU College of Holistic Medicine. Both are located close to each other and both charge almost the same price for their TCM Dr. diploma program. Is anyone able to provide an objective comparison? Thanks in advance.


July 2nd, 2009 Tyme

Anyone know of a possible contraindication between Lovenox (prescribed prophylactically) and Wu Ling San for a pregnant woman (7 weeks), thirty-five, good health, no dramatic clinical signs or symptoms.


July 2nd, 2009 stevedouglas

Whilst enjoying good sex together is one way of making sure your partner knows how strongly you feel about them. For many love and sex are the two inseparable sides of a coin, without one the other is incomplete. Today with impotence affecting the sex lives of over 20% of all couples and in the process making their love lives incomplete, isn't time to do something about it?



Background Triptolide, an active compound of Radix Tripterygium wilfordii, is immunosuppressive, cartilage protective and anti-inflammatory both in human and animal studies of various inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, but its therapeutic mechanism remains unclear.



In our fast paced world we often struggle to find a balance in our diet between convenience and health. We all know the dangers of the fast food industry, high levels of salt and fat in many restaurant foods, of portion sizes being too large (particularly here in America), but we rarely question the "healthy" options we are choosing.



Our monthly research synopses contain select research articles from a variety of sources that are of interest to the public and practitioners of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.



Liver fibrosis is a common histological process to develop into cirrhosis in various chronic liver diseases including chronic hepatitis and fatty liver. Therefore anti-liver fibrosis is very important strategy to treat chronic liver diseases.


An acupuncturist just forwarded me an e-mail from the AAAOM (American Association of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine,) requesting we write to our congressional representatives about supporting Bill HR 646, The Federal Acupuncture Coverage Act.

June 27th, 2009 rayrubio

Dear Colleagues -

Miriam Lee passed away yesterday. Her student, Susan Johnson, was at her bedside.




I would like to have a discussion about autoimmune/ allergy. So much emphasis is put on identifying particular food culprits that are creating some kind of havoc on the system, as in an allergy. Although this is true in many instances, I think that we really have to look at the cause and effect here.


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Dr Lorne Brown of Acubalance Wellness Centre interviews Leslie Oldershaw, L.AC from the Bay area in California on how a dysfunctional Thyroid can not only lead to difficulties in conceiving but also increase your risk of miscarriage.


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Lorne Brown, Director of www.prodseminars.com and www.acubalance.ca interviews Andy Ellis of www.springwinddispensary.com on what practitioners need to consider when setting up a raw herb pharmacy. He also touches on how China is making progress in filling the organic herb demands from practitioners working in the west.



June 24th, 2009 PrincessMiss

I have an inquiry to anyone out there who is - or who knows - an acupuncturist in London, ON. We are looking for a woman who has recently been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma and her sister is thinking that acupuncture might help her stress relief, etc. If you are someone there or know anyone, please let me know here so that I can pass this along. or email me at


June 22nd, 2009 AndreaH

- we have been working together for two cycles, the first of which her BM responded so strongly to the herbal work that she had loose stools and ab pain, however this intense movement seemed to really help her breasts because the pain decreased by half
- she has noticed the moodiness has softened completely since on herbal rx

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