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Are Bananas Good for Period Cramps?
Bananas are often recommended for period cramps because of their potassium, magnesium and vitamin B6. Chinese medicine classes them as cold in nature and advises skipping them during…
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Does Massaging Your Face Help With Wrinkles?
Massaging your face brings blood to the skin, loads the cells that make collagen and releases the tension that deepens expression lines. Brehan Crawford, L.Ac. walks through the…
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Why Is Menopause Called the Second Spring?
Menopause is usually framed as an ending. Chinese medicine calls what comes after it the second spring. Here is what tian gui is, why the transition is so…
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Gut Brain Synchrony
Brehan Crawford, MAcOM, LAc explains why conventional and functional medicine fail complex chronic illness and how the Chorus Circle community uses a terrain-based, gut-brain framework to address MCAS,…
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Why Your Pain Patch Isn't Working (And What to Look For Instead)
Why most commercial pain patches feel like expensive band-aids: single ingredients at low concentrations, poor delivery, no acupuncture-point logic. What to look for instead, and the patch we…
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Tibetan Foot Soaks
Tibetan foot soak therapy explained: the eight herbs and Tibetan salt inside each sachet, how the soak works through the skin, the four-stage response, benefits, precautions and how…
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Brehan's Crawford ASA 2026 Keynote Interview
On Saturday, April 25, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Brehan Crawford delivered Synchronizing Science and Spirit: Reframing the Gut–Brain Axis through Classical Herbalism…
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Meet Dr. Joshua Park
Brehan Crawford sits down with Dr. Joshua Park, DSOM, L.Ac — one of the most brilliant and generous herbalists in the country. From his…
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Dr. Yaron Cohen Interview
Will Sheppy sits down with Dr. Yaron Cohen — DAOM, integrative digestive health clinician, and Director of Clinical Education at VUIM — for an…
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