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Chinese herbs

· olivia rudio

Notes From Dr. Rudio

Most of what people believe about hormone therapy traces to one study from 2002, and the women in it were mostly in their sixties. Dr. Olivia Rudio sorts out what that study did and didn't show, what the risks actually are, and what Chinese herbal medicine offers alongside it.

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· Travis Kern

What They Came In For: Insomnia

Erin came to the clinic after months of insomnia. She’d cleaned up her sleep hygiene, but still woke night after night. With acupuncture and herbs, we helped her body remember how to stay asleep — not by forcing it, but by restoring the rhythms that allow real rest to return.

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· Travis Kern

What They Came In For: Peripheral Neuropathy

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.

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· Travis Kern

Bulk Herbs and the Power of Decoction

Cooking herbs together allows their individual natures and flavors to blend together and enhance or subdue one another. This alchemy is the real power of Chinese herbal medicine and is almost entirely missing in most practitioner’s granule formulas. Remember that 汤 “tāng” means “soup” in mandarin and just like your chicken soup is not just the flavor or chicken and onion and celery but the marriag

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