Posts by Dr.Kim
Acupuncture and Cancer Prevention
The Acupuncture Newsletter June 2010 Hoon Kim L.Ac., Dipl.Ac., Ph.D. WWW.TAOOFMEDICINE.COM Tao of Medicine, Acupuncture and Wellness 2701 Ocean Park Boulevard, Suite 119 Santa Monica, CA 90405 310-401-3347 Your Health this Summer In Oriental medicine, summer is symbolic of maximum activity or greatest yang, which means that it is a time of heat, outgoingness, and…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Chronic Migraine and Headache
Chronic Migraine and Headache Disorders Nearly 10 million people in the United States suffer from regular migraine headaches; and 40% of people in North America have occasional migraines. On average, 55% of migraine sufferers miss two workdays per month. In addition, 88% of sufferers work more than five days per month despite having a migraine.…
Read MoreWhat Role REM Sleep and Dreaming Play in Mankind
In a paper published last month in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist and longtime sleep researcher at Harvard, argues that the main function of rapid-eye-movement sleep, or REM, when most dreaming occurs, is physiological. The brain is warming its circuits, anticipating the sights and sounds and emotions of waking.…
Read MoreMemory of Qigong Class
This is the one of many good moments in qigong class, as I got busier and the office doesn’t have the large space for qigong, I had to stop the qigong class. In the class, We learned, shared alot and loved alot; our body, our mind, our balance, the true nature, the universal law, love,…
Read MoreSuccessful Acupunctue to Relieve Severe Psoriasis
After I treated the English woman with the refractory severe psoriasis successfully, I started thinking and researching Psoriasis in the U.S.  Psoriasis is the most prevalent autoimmune diseases in the U.S. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as many as 7.5 million Americans—approximately 2.2 percent of the population–have psoriasis.  Studies show…
Read MoreLow Back Surgeries are really always necessary – NPR
Too many complex back surgeries are being done and people are suffering as a result, according to a study in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The general tendency noted in the study — that many patNPR 04062010 Back Surgeryients and doctors think more medical care is always better —…
Read MoreClinical Treatment for Epilepsy with Acupuncture & Herbs
â–¶Epilepsy occurs in seizures,manifested by falling down in a fit, loss of consciousness, foam on the lips, or screams with eyes staring upward, and convulsions. after some minutes,consciousness returns, and the patient’s condition becomes normal. Besides the typical seizures, there may be variations. it can be momentary loss of attention or consciousness with eyes staring…
Read More4 Ways to Decrease Seasonal Allergies
Such a good timing! I have been seeing more and more people sneezing, tearing, nose-blowing on the street, at my home, and my office, since I saw the spring wind blow a cloud of yellow pollens at the pine trees in my neighborhood. I also have been sneezing and tearing down and also treating my patients, below is…
Read MoreDoes Milk Make You phlegmy?
Waiting my order for breakfast this morning, the title on the screen – Does milk make you phlegmy?-caught my eyes, since I just ask my wife to cut the amount of milk and the dairy product for our 4 year old son- showing some seasonal allergy reaction, sneezing, stuffy nose, and phlegmy in the throat.…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Epilepsy in East Asian Medicine
Epilepsy is very old disease in Eastern-one of the first known documentation of epilepsy appeared in ‘the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine'(700-221 BC)-and Western Medicine as well and there are still many people suffering from Epilepsy even with all the medication backed by the 21c highly advanced neuroscience in this country and they do not…
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