Chinese herbal medicine

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Antibiotics, Birth Control, and Your Body: Rebuilding with Chinese Herbal Medicine

Many of the patients who walk through our doors at Five Seasons Healing are intelligent, health-conscious, and deeply intuitive. You’re someone who does your research. You take care of your body, and when something feels off, you listen. But what happens when you don’t know what’s causing the symptoms you’re experiencing? So often, patients are […]

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Hot Flashes & Kidney Yin Deficiency with Heat: A TCM Perspective

If you’ve ever been caught in the middle of a meeting, on a subway ride, or simply trying to fall asleep—and suddenly feel a wave of heat flooding your face and chest, sweat pouring down, your heart racing, and your patience thinning—you’re not alone. For many women, especially in their 40s and 50s, hot flashes

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Understanding Endometriosis Through The Lens of Kidney Yang Deficiency

Endometriosis is a word that can carry a lot of weight for many women—pain, confusion, frustration, and often, a long journey toward answers. At Five Seasons Healing, we offer a different lens to understand what’s happening in your body—one that is rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and offers both clinical depth and whole-person compassion.

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What’s the Fifth Season in Five Seasons Healing?!

We are often asked, “What is the fifth season in Five Seasons Healing?” This season is called late summer, and fortunate for us, we’re deep in it right now. In the Tri-State area, we’ve been gifted with days radiating a warm sunny glow and evenings that are mild and pleasant.  The Fifth Season: The Golden

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Feminine Health & Traditional Chinese Medicine’s Innovative Meeting in Forbes Article Featuring Five Season’s, Sharon Yeung, LAc.

With the increased melding of modern wellness techniques with traditional medicine wisdom, we are seeing the advent of innovative feminine products that can meet a woman’s needs–even some of her more intimate ones.  When one thinks of traditional Chinese herbal medicine, one might picture a brewing caldron of herbs carefully watched and perhaps a little

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Chinese Herbs At Your NYC Doorstep (Part 1)

Chinese Herbs At Your NYC Doorstep (Part 1)   What if you could stroll around New York City and pick your own Chinese medicinal herbs? When I was a student in the Masters program for acupuncture, I was still working as a horticulturist, gardening in and around NYC. And I loved learning about the medicinal

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Facial Acupuncture with Jayne Whitman

Recognize this familiar face? Jayne was our beloved office manager for Five Seasons while she finished graduate school, and we are thrilled to re-welcome Jayne Whitman back to the Five Seasons family as a licensed acupuncturist! Jayne has been busy working in various high-volume clinics around the city this year.  In addition to acupuncture and

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Acupuncture with Erin: Meet our newest practitioner!

Big news: acupuncture appointments are officially available on Saturdays with our newest practitioner! We are thrilled to introduce the addition of acupuncturist and herbalist, Erin Kennedy, LAc to the Five Seasons family. We’re equally excited to announce that our business hours have extended to Saturdays as of June 2022! You can book Fridays from 8:30

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Chinese Herbalist treats COVID 19 Patient Case

How A Chinese Herbalist Treats Covid-19: A Case Study

In this post, we want to walk you through the step-by-step process Suzanne Connole, LAc, a classical Chinese herbalist here at Five Seasons, took in diagnosing and treating a suspected Covid-19 case. In this account, you will get a taste of how our medicine views acute viral infections and see the special challenges that come

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