Facial Massage for Smooth Skin

Dr Loh taught us his patients how to combat rough skin the gentle way. The diagram below shows a number of points on the face to massage.

Follow up to Nov 15 post

Our earlier post on Nov. 15 regarding the Ju Family Restauranteurs was published in the Winter 2010 issue of Flavors and Fortune 17 (4). All these restaurants will skip the MSG and reduce the amount of salt at your request. In Stockton, Peking (209)957-0617 and New Yen Ching (209)957-0913 will also deliver.

A Family of Restauranteurs and Chefs in Our Area

Do you know that the owners of the following restaurants are all related?

Teresa, our food writer, just reported on the Ju family in Stockton and Lodi. Here is an excerpt from her article

For the full articles, please see Flavor and Fortune, 17(4), pp. 12-14

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Soup is On

When the air chills and the leaves fall, it is time for a hot pot of soup.

Teresa M. Chen's cookbook, A Tradition of Soup - Flavors from China's Pearl River Delta, makes a great holiday gift that celebrates tradition, health, and cuisine.

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Pain and the Elderly

It pains me to think of the great number of elderly people suffering from pain. It pains me even more to learn that, thirty-eight years after acupuncture was introduced to Americans and after numerous studies confirming the efficiency of acupuncture to reduce pain, acupuncture is not a covered benefit for Medicare.

A recent information session of SCAN Health Plan on Oct. 28, 2010 confirmed the charging of monthly premium, office visit co-pays, and share of cost for prescription drugs. Just like Medicare Part A, and Part B, SCAN (Part C) did not recognize acupuncture as an option.


This is really adding insult to injury, piling financial pain upon physical pain, for the senior population who need a viable alternative to pain-killing drugs.

TMC

Pain Management at PCMC

As early as 1982, when Dr. Wu was in training in Massachusetts, he was already involved in pain management research using acupuncture, TENS unit, and trigger point injection.

In Stockton, Dr Wu started Pacific Pain Clinic in 1987, which evolved into the establishment of Pacific Complementary Medicine Center in 1993 providing holistic treatment for pain and other chronic conditions.

It has been established by NIH funded research projects that the use of acupuncture helps with neurological damages caused by strokes or accidents, and with musculo-skeletal pain. PCMC's team of trained and state licensed acupuncturists are here to help you recover and reduce pain.

In conjunction with the Eastern and Western treatment modalities available to them, PCMC's health education and health maintenance program aim to enpower our patients to better manage their pain with understanding, positive attitude, relaxation techniques, excercise and healthy eating habits.

Self-Help for Headaches

In Western medicine, aspirin is a ‘one-size-fits-all’ drug for pain and headaches. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) however, there are fine distinctions amongst frontal headache, occipital headache, sinus headache, allergy headache, and tension headache. In terms of TCM, different kinds of headaches correspond to different diagnosis and call for different treatment points and herbal formulas.

During his 2010 presentations, Dr Loh showed us six points that we can massage to ease headaches. Here are two pictures to show the location of these points, thanks to Shirley Fong for her graphic rendition.