21 Dec

Too Much of Processed Meat May Worsen Your Asthma

Too Much of Processed Meat May Worsen Your Asthma Here is finding in today’s google health section: “Cured and processed meat is rich in nitrites, which may have a role in airway inflammation — a typical feature of asthma, the study said. The findings showed that individuals who consumed four or more weekly servings of […]

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17 Jul

Hay fever/allergies/sinusitis

Acupuncture shall combine with herbal medicine to increase the benefit of treating hay fever. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/really-acupuncture-can-reduce-symptoms-of-hay-fever/?_r=0 In the study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, scientists recruited 422 people with allergies to grass and pollen and randomly assigned them to one of three groups. One group received 12 acupuncture treatments over eight weeks. Another was given […]

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22 Jan

Allergies, allergic rhinitis

From a Chinese point of view, allergic rhinitis is due to a deficiency of the Lung and Kidney’s Defensive-Qi systems, combined with retention of chronic “Wind” in the nose.   Allergic rhinitis often starts in early childhood, with a constitutional weakness, but it may also start later in life, with a progressive decline of Kidney-Qi. […]

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