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Molly Greacen, Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist, Dipl Ac, CH
www.womanmedicine.com
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I am now able to take insurance for acupuncture !
Avoiding colds and flus
Anti-aging article
Latest positive study on human identical hormones
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December, 2012
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Greetings!
Greetings! I hope it has been a good year for you. I have been out of touch for awhile, but staying busy with providing quality alternative health care.
Chinese medicine is true preventive medicine, which makes it anti-aging medicine. I am sharing an interesting article on anti-aging, along with the latest study on HRT, this time looking at human identical hormone replacement, with a very positive outcome.
I am now able to take your insurance. Many plans now cover acupuncture, and you need to check out your policy to see if your insurance does.
I take the following:
Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield HMO and PPO plans, as well as Rocky Mountain HMO and ASO. United Healthcare, Workman's compensation, and Auto Accident Insurance.
Please call or email if you have questions about these insurance plans. I am trying to make my work more accessible to everyone.
Be well !
Molly
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Taking Care of Ourselves in Winter
The cold and darkness of winter urges us to slow down, sleep more, reduce stress, eat warming and nourishing foods, and
our deep winter dreams will create the seeds for new life in the spring.
TREATING COLDS AND FLUS
Most people can avoid antibiotics if they aggressively treat colds and flus with herbs and diet and rest.
Here are some simple suggestions for helping you get well. I recommend that you come in for treatment if you are really sick or not getting better.
At the first sign of a cold, I recommend using sinus washes twice a day, along with Cold Snap herbs ( 2 caps every 2 hours) or Yin Chiao for 1 to 2 days, staying warm, having hot soup with garlic, and resting. I like to do acupuncture to kick out the cold before it can take hold.
For the 2nd stage of a cold I like Gan Mao Ling or Zhong Gan Ling, along with lots of chicken soup and avoiding sweets and dairy.
If the cold goes in deeper and lingers, I have had excellent results with Isatis 6 ( 4 tablets every four hours) from Seven Forests. I also use a cough syrup called Fritillaria and Pinellia for lung infections, as long as there is a productive cough. Throat and Gland Spray by Natura works well for sore throats and swollen glands. I have formulas that I use for sinus infection, and they work very well if you start them early. Using a humidifier at night really helps you get better quicker. Keep doing the sinus washes twice a day, as it will cut down on the time you are sick.
Keeping immune system strong
Chinese herbs are great for tonifying the immune system, including astragalas, ginseng, and medicinal mushrooms such as cordyceps and reishi. There is a 1000 year old formula that I find really helpful called Jade Windscreen, which I take daily, along with multivitamins, extra C, Vitamin D3, probiotics, and other Chinese tonic formulas.
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Prevention is the Real Anti-Aging
By Martha Lucas, PhD, LAc
from Acupuncture Today
In a way, the word "anti-aging" seems inappropriate. The process through which we are living is aging, not anti-aging. We are getting older; we are finite. However, anti-aging medicine is quite a large movement. One reason for the growth in the anti-aging business is that life span has increased. In the Middle Ages, the average life span was 40 years. Now it's 75 years at birth and if you live past the first year, it's more like 85 years.
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HRT Benefits Newly Menopausal Women, No Cardiovascular Harm
Fran Lowry, Medscape
This is a look at an interesting new study comparing human identical estrogen and progesterone, with synthetic estrogen. Finally someone is studying the human identical forms of these hormones, which many practitioners have believed were safer than synthetic, with very few side effects; (in this case they are looking at cardiovascular, depression, anxiety and cognitive function).
October 3, 2012 (- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with low-dose oral or transdermal estrogen and cyclic monthly progesterone started soon after the start of menopause improves depression, anxiety, and cognitive function in healthy women, researchers said here at the 23rd annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
But, perhaps most importantly, HRT does this without posing any cardiovascular disease risk, according to results of the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS).
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Molly offers a free 15 minute consultation by phone or in person.
Feel free to contact her at:
Molly Greacen,
Lic Ac ,Dipl Ac, CH
3625 Conifer Court,
Boulder, CO 80304
303-546-0987
mollygreacen@
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