By Dr. Sydney Malawer, DAIM L.Ac. In my clinical approach to thyroid care, I religiously follow the work and trainings of Dr. Heidi Lovie, an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine practitioner out of New York who is an expert in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis - both as a practitioner and patient as she...

Atopic eczema affects up to 30% of children and 10% of adults in industrialized nations. It is characterized by incessantly itchy and red skin with or without oozing. In the episode below, Dr. Sydney talks through atopic eczema and other autoimmune diseases from the perspective of East-Asian...

by Dr. Sydney Malawer, DAIM L.Ac. Insomnia is a common issue brought up in our clinic. Whether it's a short bout or a long struggle, insomnia affects almost everyone at some point in their lives. The past few months our patients have been presenting with some extremely complex insomnia cases in...

Most of the people who come to see us are dealing with a chronic health issue - from eczema to hypothyroidism to chronic back pain to IBS to long-standing anxiety - and the first thing we discuss before starting to work together is that acupuncture and herbal medicine take time and persistence in...

By Dr. Sydney Malawer, DAIM L.Ac. Autoimmune disease has become a wide-spread epidemic in the United States affecting 50 million Americans -  twice as many as heart disease (25 million) and four times as many as cancer (12 million). It takes Americans an average of 4.6 years and consultations...

For millenia Chinese medicine has been used to treat upper respiratory diseases from the common cold to pneumonia. Classical Chinese medicine views externally-contracted disease as shang han (cold pathogen) or wen bing (warm pathogen) and the depth to which the pathogen has penetrated is...

What is Psoriasis? Psoriasis (Psoriasis Vulgaris) is a chronic, non-contagious, hereditary, dermatological disease that has stumped medical communities “since Biblical times”.1 It is an autoimmune condition characterized by red, pale, or purple lesions on the skin covered by silvery scales.2...

by Dr. Sydney Malawer, DAIM L.Ac. Many people in our practice are suffering from GERD and gastritis (aka heartburn & reflux). Their symptoms vary from mild irritation of the throat and burping to severe stabbing pain in the epigastrium and inability to lie flat due to the pain. Many of them...