About Lynn Lynn Jaffee is a licensed acupuncturist and the author of the book, Simple Steps: The Chinese Way to Better Health, a clear and concise explanation of Chinese medicine for the lay person. She is co-author of the book, The BodyWise Woman, a personal health manual for physically active women and girls.
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By Lynn Jaffee, on December 27th, 2010
What do heart disease, stroke, arthritis, colitis, fibromyalgia, lupus, MS, diabetes, chronic fatigue, and Alzheimer’s have in common? Well, yes, they’re all diseases, but the A+ answer is that they are all caused by or associated with inflammation.
Scientists are finding that the common cause in a long list of illnesses is an inflammatory process that’s run out of control. Inflammation is controlled by a group of hormones called prostaglandins, some of which promote, and others that reduce inflammation. You can affect these hormones . . . → Read More: What You Need to Know About Inflammation
By Lynn Jaffee, on December 20th, 2010
Over this past weekend, I battled a nagging headache that seemed to start in my upper back. The pain traveled up the left side of my neck and into my ear and jaw. With every twinge, I kept thinking, “What new kind of hell is this?” I generally don’t get headaches, and this one was odd. I went to bed Saturday with the headache, but when I woke up on Sunday, the pain was gone. Gone that is, until I went outside, and then . . . → Read More: Cold Pain Relief
By Lynn Jaffee, on December 13th, 2010
Acupressure can be incredibly effective for nausea. I learned just how well it could work several years ago, when my son was playing competitive soccer. It was during the heat of the summer, and his team was in a weekend-long tournament. They had won a couple of games, and his team had advanced to the finals.
The night before their final game, Nate, one of their best and most strategic players (a forward) got the flu. When the team assembled the next morning, the . . . → Read More: A Very Good Acupressure Point for Nausea
By Lynn Jaffee, on December 6th, 2010
Myra is a spirited woman in her late sixties who I’ve been seeing off and on over the past year for back pain. Every time she comes into my clinic, Myra is coughing. There are some days that it’s so loud, I’m afraid she’d going to expire on the spot. We’ve spent lots of time talking about this cough. Myra’s had it for years, and when it gets really bad, her doctor puts her on a course of the potent anti-inflammatory drug, prednisone; the . . . → Read More: Relieve Your Cough With Chinese Medicine
By Lynn Jaffee, on November 17th, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I sprained my ankle. I was working in my garden in an area that’s separated by a stone wall. One moment I was on top of the wall and the next, I was rolling around on the ground. I had somehow fallen off the wall and rolled my ankle. My initial reaction was, “S***!, this is really going to hurt”. And then it really did hurt. However, when I got back on my feet, it didn’t feel so bad . . . → Read More: Acupuncture for Sprains
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