Homemade Immune Tea Recipe
This simple tea combines three easy to find ingredients to help your immune system. Best taken at the early signs of feeling unwell, this tea can help when you have a sore throat or beginning of a cold. Fresh ginger, garlic, and honey combine to make a powerful trio to give your immune system a boost.
Homemade Cinnamon Twig Decoction (Gui Zhi Tang) Tea Recipe
In this herbal remedy, five herbs including cinnamon twig, fresh ginger, white peony, red dates, and honey fried licorice are combined and boiled as a tea for a delicious and supportive formula. You can make your own homemade version of the recipe with several ingredients you likely already have available in your kitchen.
Welcome Mimi, Our New Acupuncturist!
We are excited to introduce you to Michelle (Mimi) Denker, our newest Acupuncturist at Dynamic Acupuncture. Mimi brings over 10 years of clinical experience with her. Mimi has a gentle needing style and enjoys incorporating cupping, tuina stretching, Japanese needling style, and lifestyle recommendations into her treatments.
Lifestyle Tips for Immune Support
This is part two of our blog series for our immune support recommendations with ideas that you can incorporate into your daily life! In this blog we’re going to dive into lifestyle recommendations that help support the immune system. Inflammation and stress are both factors that have a direct effect on the immune systems. Learn how to decrease the effects of stress on your body and limit inflammation.
Meet Sarah, our new Office Assistant!
Meet Sarah, our new Office Assistant. You’ll see Sarah behind the front desk most days of the week to help with scheduling and collecting payments. She’ll also be handling a lot of behind the scenes tasks like insurance billing and insurance verifications. If you need to make an appointment or reschedule an existing one, Sarah is happy to help. You can always reach the clinic and Sarah at 503-208-3379 for any questions.
Dietary Tips for Immune Support
Immune support is top of mind these days with many heading back to school and the approach of fall. Did you know that there are many natural ways to help support your immune system? This is part one of our blog series for our immune support recommendations with ideas that you can incorporate into your daily life!
Cupping Therapy 101: For Olympians and You!
Cupping therapy is a myofascial bodywork technique that has immediate effects on the soft tissue structures of the body. Cupping can be described as an inverse of a massage. Instead of pressing down into the muscle tissue, a suction is created using either glass or plastic cups to pull up on the fascia and muscles. This allows the local tissues to soften and relax, decreasing pain and improving range of motion.