Tag: Chinese medicine

  • Looking Ahead: New Season, Same Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Or Is It?)

    Looking Ahead: New Season, Same Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Or Is It?)

                A new season is upon us and with it comes an inspiration to review our life practices.  What summer or fall or winter or spring mean at one stage of life is not going to be the same as the years pass and the decades accumulate.  Especially when we live with complex conditions, the…

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  • Spleen, East and West (And Why it Matters When You Have Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome)

    Spleen, East and West (And Why it Matters When You Have Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome)

                The spleen is a little guy, only about the size of a fist or an avocado.  As far as biomedicine is concerned, it’s not a vital organ necessary for survival and can be removed if there are problems.  Chinese medicine does not see things this way.  We are big fans of the Spleen (as…

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  • Welcome to Holistic Health & hEDS

    Welcome to Holistic Health & hEDS

    A web site’s first blog post is fraught, indeed.  How might I introduce myself to you so that you will read to the end of it and, I hope, come back again and again for future installments?  This web site has lofty goals for you, esteemed reader.  My goal is to ask you to consider…

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