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Bill came in with chronic constipation, sometimes going three or four days without a bowel movement. Nothing he’d tried worked. With acupuncture and herbs, we helped his body regain rhythm and ease. Within a few weeks, his digestion was regular again and with it, his comfort, clarity, and mood.
Read more →Finally we can begin to feel the change in the balance of Yin and Yang in our environments. It’s still not time to go out and be super active, spending loads of time outside and getting sweaty but the change is coming. Use this node to finalize your Spring plans and get thinking about what you’ll want to do with the long days of Summer.
Read more →Catching every cold that comes around? Chinese medicine looks beyond immunity to the deeper question of constitutional strength and how to rebuild it.
Read more →Susan came in with sharp, radiating leg pain that made walking, sitting, and sleeping difficult. Acupuncture gave her targeted relief, while herbs supported deeper healing. With regular care, her pain eased — and she got her rhythm back. “I’m not adjusting anymore,” she said. “I’m just living.”
Read more →For years, Meena R. lived around her period—severe cramps, heavy bleeding, and exhaustion that took over every month. At Root and Branch, custom herbal formulas and targeted acupuncture helped her cycle shift, gently and powerfully. This is the story of how she stopped bracing for pain—and started feeling in control.
Read more →Months after a mild case of COVID, Thomas K. still wasn’t himself—fatigue, brain fog, and unrest that wouldn’t let go. At Root and Branch, a custom herbal formula and targeted acupuncture helped his system reset. This is the story of what it’s like to finally begin coming back to life.
Read more →Digital ads and social media may be loud, but they rarely bring people through the door. For small clinics like ours, word of mouth is everything. When you share your experience, you help us survive—and you help others find care that really makes a difference.
Read more →When Karen T. began losing feeling in her feet, no one could explain why. At Root and Branch, we started by mapping what she could feel—and building it back with herbs, acupuncture, and attention. This is the story of how sensation returned, one visit and one footstep at a time.
Read more →After a car accident left her with lingering neck and shoulder pain, Sara M. tried everything—chiropractic, physical therapy, rest—but nothing seemed to work. Then she came to Root and Branch. This is the story of how things finally started to shift, and what real care can feel like.
Read more →Everything I have seen in my short but lively career as a Chinese medicine practitioner suggests that most of the negative experiences we associate with the aging process need not come to pass . But in order to understand how our experience may differ from the common definition of aging, we must look at why suffering is a possibility as we age. Once we understand the problem, then we may understan
Read more →“I hate to sound like a broken record,” said one of my teachers, “but a lot of her problem is due to blood stagnation .” I smiled at Greg’s remark. It was a familiar piece of advice, but one that bared repeating. Greg was one of the few westerners to go to China, learn chinese, finish a P.H.D. in Chinese medicine, and then study with various doctors who had decades of clinical experience. “But why
Read more →There are a lot of inflammatory ways that we discuss health and well-being. This food is poison, that activity will kill you! Have you heard about such and such causes cancer?! The thing is, there are a lot of things out there that are less than helpful for optimal living but when the language gets too loud, too bombastic, and too crass, it often becomes misleading and then it makes it difficult t
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