As many of my patients know, Lisa and I are avid gardeners. For many years I have enjoyed growing our own food and have felt that gardening was a natural way to promote personal and planetary well-being.
Warming Home Recipes + Videos
Green Your Interior Spaces with Plants
Key to High-Level Wellness: 5 Ways to Reduce Inflammation
At ACNJ, we counsel patients in the important ways they can reduce inflammation and promote natural, healthy function. These healthy and easy to achieve guidelines will enhance your regular acupuncture treatments and greatly improve the way you feel and your ability to resist disease and lead a longer, healthier life. Read more...
What's Qi Gong?
Chinese and Western medicines can seem very different, but they do have one thing in common. The idea that prevention is the best medicine. Within Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are several pillars or overarching modes of treatment. All of which can be used as an active intervention in acute or chronic disease or preventatively to avoid disease entirely.
Spring Detox: Simple, Safe + Effective Ways to Greater Health + Vitality
Many of our acupuncture patients ask us for recommendations on dietary changes, nutritional supplements, and weight loss and detoxification programs. There’s so much information on the internet and media that it bewilders many people, including sometimes ourselves as we read through new medical literature and research that we encounter daily. Read more...
Peter Kadar Attends Dalai Lama Teaching in India
In his talk, the Dalai Lama emphasized the need for people in India to study their Hindu heritage and wisdom tradition, reminding everyone that Buddhism originated out of Hindu spiritual belief. He also emphasized that, at 82 years old, his time on earth is nearing its end, and what he wants people to take from his decades of teaching.
Healing Crystals + Acupuncture: A Powerful Combination
We've learned that these following stones may have a beneficial impact on our body and emotions by placing them on parts of the body that need healing, or by holding them or keeping them in your pocket. Crystals can both emit energy to the body and absorb human energy and refresh or cleanse it due to the vibrational quality of their mineral content and characteristic of absorbing and projecting light.
Dana’s Journey from Anxiety + Illness to Peace + Wellness
Throughout her life, Dana had suffered from anxiety, headaches, severe menstrual cramps and indigestion. With the added pressures of motherhood and marriage and substance abuse, she worried that she was near the snapping point. Like many patients with these patterns, Dana had chosen acupuncture because she didn’t want to go on medication again. Learn more about her healing journey!
Joe’s Healing Story on Aging + Optimal Health
Our patient, Joe has been an acupuncture patient for almost 20 years and I have helped him with many health concerns over the years. Joe originally came for acupuncture when he was 50years old for low back pain from various injuries. He responded very well to acupuncture and he became a loyal patient and benefited from treatment for his digestive problems including reflux, sinus problems, sleep disorders and other health issues. Read more...
Lucy's Fertility Success Story with Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs + Nutritional Supplements
At the Acupuncture Center of NJ, we support women to increase chances for a natural conception. I met with Lucy and after a lengthy intake and examination, including the traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) diagnostic methods of feeling the pulse, looking at the tongue, palpating acupuncture meridians and assessing her emotional state I understood that Lucy needed nourishment for her Yin or essence, support for her vital energy or Qi, and more free movement of her blood. In acupuncture and TCM practice these substances are essential to promote follicular development or fertile eggs.
The Mind Muddler - a Multitasking Illusion
Multitasking has been shown to undermine the ability for single focus attentiveness. It leads to feelings of stress and anxiety thereby diminishing satisfaction and joyfulness. Instead of increasing productivity multitasking increases the time it takes to complete tasks and reduces the quality of work accomplished, all while providing the illusion that doing more gets more done.
A Natural Foods Journey from Illness to Wellness
How to Enjoy a Healthy Summer!
The Joys and Health Benefits of Gardening
As the weather gets warm I see more and more people start their annual outdoor gardening. It is fun and rewarding to plant flowers for beauty and vegetable plants for tasty, fresh nutrition. Herbs for cooking and health benefits can also be planted and will provide medicinal benefits and flavor in the months ahead.
