Vickey Health & Wellness

Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

Health

| October 1, 2010

What does that mean?

What would health look like to you and your family?

What would it feel like to have health?

For many people, this is a concept that is so far removed from their reality they refuse to entertain the notion.

Acupuncture as a Health Maintenance Model

| October 11, 2009

Like many Westerners, I suppose, I have never had much contact with acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (OM) and only thought of it vaguely as a folk art that worked more or less by accident. I’ve since come into a much closer relationship with Oriental Medicine and have found that it makes sense to me in terms of my own profession, computer modeling.

Talk Like a Pirate Day

| September 19, 2009

Yes, even acupuncturists get to have fun once in a while.  So if things seem a little wacky, it’s not your screen – it’s a little cyber high-jinx.  Enjoy!

Tree Good, Fire Bad

| September 6, 2009

In Traditional Oriental Medicine the Lungs govern Qi and respiration. They’re responsible for inhaling Qi from the atmosphere, combining it with the Qi received from food and spreading the resultant useable Qi throughout the entire body. The Lungs are called the tender organ because they are the most external organs and they connect the body to the outside world. The Lungs are easily attacked by external pathogenic factors, in this case smoky, ashy, hot air. When the air we’re taking in is poor quality, we tire easily. Of course, when we’re breathing fine air and eating garbage we get tired easily, but that’s another discussion.

Hand Washing

| June 13, 2009

One of the most important things you can do to stay healthy and help stop the spread of infection is wash your hands.