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It’s a pretty wild concept, I know. How could it be that in our “pill-for-every-ill, nutrition-in-a-bottle” world, swallowing handfuls of daily supplements might just be…. Unnecessary? Here is, however, one way and one-way only. It’s called food.  Real food, to be exact, the kind that sprouts up from the fertile ground or lives on green […]

While acupuncture has been in use for thousands of years, the use of electro-acupuncture is a fairly recent addition to the tools of an acupuncturist. Electro-acupuncture can produce wonderful results when it comes to certain conditions. Here at Yinova, we use electrostimulation, also referred to as e stim, to support many things: timely labors in late pregnancy, […]

Cupping has many names, expressions, and incarnations. Cupping has been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years having been recorded on the Ebers Papyrus (1550 BC), one of the oldest living medical documents preserved today. Even Hippocrates mentions cupping in the medical literature from 400 BC. Cupping has roots in the Middle East, Asia, […]

In traditional Chinese medicine, the Middle Jiao is the area generally below the heart to the pubic bone. All Middle Jiao issues revolve around the transformation and transportation of food and fluids. We can include the Stomach, the Intestines, the Spleen, the Liver, the Bladder, and the Uterus in the Middle Jiao. When we think […]

Lackluster bedroom experiences may ultimately be traced back to a few different sources, but for many people, and a good deal of my patients, the main blame for lack of sex and lack of desire for sex can be summed up in just one word: stress. Chinese medicine would choose a different term: qi stagnation. […]

Here at the Yinova Center in New York City, we can tell spring is in the air when our patients come in with red eyes and stuffy noses. Seasonal allergies affect one-third of Americans and according to a study published in the September 2004 issue of Allergy Magazine, a combination of Chinese herbs and weekly […]

The first acupuncture and in vitro fertilization (IVF) trial was published a little over a decade ago. Since then, acupuncture’s impact on IVF continues to be investigated. A group of savvy researchers recently published a study analyzing the currently available research to better understand acupuncture’s effect on IVF pregnancy outcomes. In their high-quality meta-analysis, the […]

Here’s a term you don’t hear every day: Nasal irrigation.  If you are familiar with it, you have probably heard of neti pots, and you may be one of the many people who have found relief from sinus and allergy distress with this simple tool.  It can seem a little strange at first, but for […]

It’s been a long, long winter. Spring may have technically sprung, but most of us aren’t feeling very excited about it with the continued cold and dreary weather. In my treatment rooms at the Yinova Center, there is a resounding answer of “Blah” from my patients when I ask how they are feeling. The typical […]

In Making Babies, Jill guides people trying to conceive using the classification of five different fertility types: Pale, Waterlogged, Tired, Stuck, and Dry.  Over the next several weeks, I will relate each type to their distinct dietary needs, including a recipe or two as examples of things you can easily prepare at home to boost […]