Author: Dr. Jiling Hu

Dr. Jiling Hu is a licensed and board certified acupuncturist and master herbalist specializing in Women’s Health and Endocrine Disorders. She teaches at both Yo San University and Emperor's College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, all while maintaining a thriving practice in West Los Angeles that specializes in women's health and immune and endocrine disorders.
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Anti Estrogenic Diet

First Line of Nutritional Defense

Anti-Estrogenic Foods

  • Cruciferious vegetables
  • Citrus fruits
  • Omega-3 oils (flaxseeds, hempseeds)
  • Wild-catch fatty fish
  • Organic dairy (Moderate servings)

Estrogen Inhibitors-Herbs

  • Passionflower
  • Chamomile flower
  • Cruciferious indoles
  • Chinese herbs

Second Line Nutritional Defense

Food that promote anti-estrogenic hormones progesterone (women) and Testosterone (Men)

  • Raw nuts and seeds
  • Avocado
  • Olives and their cold-pressed oil
  • Stabilized wheat germ oil

The Third of Nutritional Defense

Foods that work as co-factors and promote liver detoxification

  • Green vegetables
  • Friuts (Citrus, berries, apples, Papaya, Pineapple)
  • Whole oats and barley
  • Legumes (other than soy)
  • Spices (Turmeric, Oregano, thyme, rosemary, and sage)
  • Herbs (i.e., milk thistle, dandelion root, shilijit, amla berries, ginger, and gotukola)
  • Chinese herbs
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Tai Chi and Qigong for the Treatment and Prevention of Mental Disorders

Tai Chi and Qigong for the Treatment and Prevention of Mental Disorders

KEY POINTS
Tai Chi and Qigong are evidence-based approaches to improve health-related quality of
life, and they may be effective for a range of physical health conditions.
Evidence from randomized controlled trials suggests that Tai Chi and Qigong may be
effective in reducing depressive symptoms, stress, anxiety, and mood disturbances.
Minimal research supports Tai Chi and Qigong as promising treatments for Parkinson
disease, traumatic brain injury, insomnia, substance abuse, and cognitive impairment.

Indications for Tai Chi and Qigong include inadequate response to other evidence-based
treatments, physical comorbidities known to be responsive to Tai Chi and Qigong,
patients interested in exercise-based or mindfulness-based interventions, and in geriatric
patients who are more susceptible to adverse effects from pharmacologic therapies.

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World Health Organization validates acupuncture as a proven treatment for many diseases.

According to the World Health Organization the following conditions are treated by Acupuncture:

The World Health Organization (WHO), who is the international authority concerning health-related matters, has compiled a list of symptoms, syndromes, disease processes, pathologies, traumas and conditions that have definitely been proven as effectively treated by acupuncture. The WHO has also compiled a list of diseases, symptoms and conditions for which acupuncture has shown definite therapeutic effects, but more proof is needed to establish acupuncture as a mainstream form of treatment. Should a curious patient, insurance company or colleague require proof of acupuncture’s effectiveness, the following list is something you will want to keep on file. Its use will be inevitable.

In an official report, Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials, the WHO (WHO) has listed the following symptoms, diseases and conditions that have been shown through controlled trials to be treated effectively by acupuncture:

  • low back pain
  • neck pain
  • sciatica
  • tennis elbow
  • knee pain
  • periarthritis of the shoulder
  • sprains
  • facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
  • headache
  • dental pain
  • tempromandibular (TMJ) dysfunction
  • rheumatoid arthritis
  • induction of labor
  • correction of malposition of fetus (breech presentation)
  • morning sickness
  • nausea and vomiting
  • postoperative pain
  • stroke
  • essential hypertension
  • primary hypotension
  • renal colic
  • leucopenia
  • adverse reactions to radiation or chemotherapy
  • allergic rhinitis, including hay fever
  • biliary colic
  • depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
  • acute bacillary dysentery
  • primary dysmenorrhea
  • acute epigastralgia
  • peptic ulcer
  • acute and chronic gastritis
  • The foregoing list is absolute concerning acupuncture’s effectiveness; however the report continues with three more categories:
  1. Diseases, symptoms and conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown, but further proof is needed (68 specific conditions). These conditions are effectively treated as in the first category; it’s just that more trials are necessary to establish the proof scientifically.
  2. Diseases, symptoms and conditions reporting some therapeutic effects for which acupuncture is worth trying (nine conditions).
  3. Diseases, symptoms and conditions in which acupuncture may be tried, provided the practitioner has special modern medical knowledge and adequate monitoring equipment (eight conditions).
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ALKALINIZING GREEN SMOOTHIE

Ingredients

  • ½ medium avocado, pitted and peeled (no need to use organic avocado)
  • ½ organic lemon unpeeled (depending on blender)
  • 1 cup organic spinach or romaine lettuce
  • ½ cup organic flat leaf parsley
  • 1 level scoop Sun Warrior ORMUS Natural Green Powder
  • 8 ounces Natural Value Organic Coconut Milk
  • 1 tablespoon ground organic flax seeds
  • 1 tablespoon ground organic chia seeds
  • 1 teaspoon organic ground ginger powder or ¼” coin fresh ginger
  • 8 ice cubes (optional)
  • Filtered water if texture too thick