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

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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

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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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Curious if Your Body Can Predict the Weather? Chinese Medicine Gives Us 4 Reasons Why

Leave a Comment / General Wellness, Pain Management / Erin Kennedy

We see a lot of patients who turn to Chinese medicine to help with body pain and other symptoms that vary with the weather, from headaches to low back pain, sore knees, carpal tunnel or tennis elbow. While it may be a stereotype of the arthritic aches of elderly people, it is actually a fairly

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Believe Us (and Lots of Scientists), Don’t Skip Breakfast

Leave a Comment / Food & Nutrition, Acupuncture, General Wellness / Sharon Yeung

By Erin Kennedy “When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?” “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?” “I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.”*

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Sharon featured on our fave lifestyle blog Cup of Jo

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Sharon on Chinese medicine, TV specials & more… Five Seasons founder, Sharon Yeung, LAc, was recently featured on New York-based lifestyle blog, Cup of Jo. We’ve been longtime admirers of Joanna Goddard’s blog and the supportive women-centered online community she’s built. We are thrilled that Sharon is included in her Beauty Uniform series, a testament

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Chinese Herbs At Your NYC Doorstep (Part 2)

Leave a Comment / Chinese Herbal Medicine, Seasonal Health / Sharon Yeung

Chinese Herbs At Your NYC Doorstep (Part 2) What’s “Blooming” Now: Late Spring / Early Summer- May & June Consider this your prescription to get out and visit one of the many wonderful gardens in or around NYC if you haven’t already this month. Take your pick from the Conservatory Garden or Shakespeare Garden in

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Chinese Herbs At Your NYC Doorstep (Part 1)

Leave a Comment / Chinese Herbal Medicine, Food & Nutrition, General Wellness, Seasonal Health / Erin Kennedy

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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Rumi’s Guest House

Leave a Comment / Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, General Wellness / Erin Kennedy

Reflection on Rumi Rumi is a Sufi mystic and a 13th-century Persian poet whose poetry speaks of love which infuses the world. I recently came across the poem, “The Guest House” by Rumi, and it struck me that there is an acupuncture point which shares the same name, and interestingly, can influence precisely the

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Bone Broths: Part 2 (Recipes!)

Leave a Comment / Chinese Herbal Medicine, Food & Nutrition, Seasonal Health / Erin Kennedy

My husband and I have different approaches to broth. His passion for broth is all about flavor. My passion for broth is all about the health benefits. So, while I make a scrappy and nutritious version, his broth is admittedly the most delicious. So we’ll start with his recipe. He went on a mission to

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Bone Broths: Part 1

Leave a Comment / Chinese Herbal Medicine, Food & Nutrition, Seasonal Health / Erin Kennedy

There’s a saying in Chinese Medicine about “one disease, many cures; many diseases, one cure.” While there is no single panacea, one of our most widely recommended nutritional changes is for patients to start drinking bone broth. Maybe you’ve noticed broth trending in recent years. We practice a medicine that has stood the test of

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Chinese Medicine

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

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

Believe Us (and Lots of Scientists), Don’t Skip Breakfast

Sharon featured on our fave lifestyle blog Cup of Jo

Chinese Herbs At Your NYC Doorstep (Part 2)

Chinese Herbs At Your NYC Doorstep (Part 1)

Rumi’s Guest House

Bone Broths: Part 2 (Recipes!)

Bone Broths: Part 1

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