Post Radiation Restorative Care: Healing from Radiation and its Side Effects with Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
Introduction There’s no doubt that conventional cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy (radiation) can be lifesaving....
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Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Jan 1812 min read
Natural Remedies for Sleep: East-West Herbal Perspectives on Insomnia
We all know know how important good sleep is to health and quality of life. Unfortunately, sleep issues are due to a combination of...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Dec 19, 20232 min read
After the Medicine, the Healing
Restorative Treatment in Asian Medicine The people who find their way to my office are often those who've suffered at the hands of the...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
May 16, 20221 min read
New Substack Blog: Seeds from the World Tree
Alongside continuing to post occasionally here, I'll be writing over at Seeds From the World Tree, a new Substack feed dedicated to...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Mar 1, 20221 min read
The Nose Knows: Listening to our Senses for Healing
When it comes to traditional incense materials--the woods and resins people have burnt for millennia in sacred and healing...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Dec 13, 20212 min read
Perfume, Anointing and Medicine
For me, “perfume” used to call to mind nasty-smelling stuff worn by people I didn’t understand. Perfume meant headaches; it meant...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Nov 4, 20212 min read
How Does Acupuncture Work?
‘So how does acupuncture work?' It's a question I hear often enough—sometimes with a “really” in there, as in “how does acupuncture...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Oct 18, 20215 min read
Insomnia: Patterns & Treatment Strategies
[Note: If you prefer to watch a video, most of this article's content is covered in this YouTube video.] Before the pandemic,...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Aug 27, 20216 min read
From Children's Cooking to Herbal Alchemy
I loved to cook even as a kid, a tendency my mother encouraged with what strikes me now as incredible indulgence. Our “children’s...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Aug 24, 202113 min read
Healing through Beauty: Adventures in Olfaction
The funny part, in retrospect, is how much I resisted. Contemplating the hundreds of vials I would need to obtain for even a basic...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Sep 14, 20203 min read
Traditional East Asian Medicine and Covid-19
People are often skeptical when told that Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM) can treat Covid-19, and this is understandable: if there...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Aug 20, 20202 min read
"Its Use Came into My Hands"
I recently came across the title phrase in a book on Kampo, the Japanese system of herbal medicine with close ties to classical Chinese...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Aug 20, 20202 min read
The Library Angel
This 2018 post is from an old, now-defunct site. Ever had a run-in with what dream-worker Robert Moss calls the "library angel?" It's...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Aug 20, 20202 min read
Treating Traumatic Injuries with Chinese Medicine
This 2018 post was migrated from an old site, Axis Mundi Healing Arts. Americans often associate acupuncture with chronic pain treatment,...
Jonathan Hadas Edwards
Aug 20, 20202 min read
Living Traditions and Symbiosis
It's as if the tradition itself is doing the instructing
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