Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine - Christopher Carlow, D. Ac.

07/19/2025

Are you frustrated with your health issues? Are you experiencing lots of signs and symptoms that seem to be unrelated? Are you taking medication but still don’t feel like it’s helping? What’s the root cause of all of this?

To find out the root-cause you need to get back to the basic pillars of health to feel better.

If you find yourself chasing lots of symptoms with no solutions first, make sure you have good fundamental health support – sleep, diet, and exercise/stress management. How are you doing with these basic but important pillars of health?

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Are you frustrated with your health issues? Are you experiencing lots of signs and symptoms that seem to be unrelated? Are you taking medication but still don’t feel like it’s helping? …

07/17/2025

If you’re a veteran or you know of a veteran struggling with chronic pain and in need of effective alternative care, ask your Primary Doctor at the VA for a referral to try acupuncture.

Acupuncture is a safe and effective therapy that stimulates a powerful and natural healing response without the worries of potentially dangerous surgeries or the harmful side-effects with some prescription medications.

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VA Covers Acupuncture for Veterans The Community Care Network (CCN) is a network of healthcare providers outside the VA Medical facility. CCN is a new program replacing the Veterans Choice Program …

07/16/2025

Maintaining good gut health is especially important for children. Their young bodies are not fully developed and more vulnerable to ailments. Teaching them good dietary habits will set them up for greater health for a life time.

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Gut health is an important fundamental to take care of for optimal health. Maintaining good gut health is especially important for children. Their young bodies are not fully developed and more vuln…

07/15/2025

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In explaining the state of the body based on the function of these organs, Chinese Medicine uses terms like damp, dry, heat, cold, stagnant, excess, and deficient. These terms refer to patterns of energy and substance recognized in the body that can predict other health aspects. For example, we can predict that a patient recognized as having a “damp pattern” evidenced in loose stools and edema might tend to also suffer from brain fog and difficulty losing weight.

Strong odor is another sign of heat in the intestines, While an especially foul odor indicates damp-heat. All of these distinctions are important as they inform treatment in both acupuncture and herbal approaches.

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07/14/2025

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Signs of imbalance include stool that is too soft, too dry, sticky, thin, small, stinky or any color other than a nice dark brown.

Color is important from both an Eastern and western perspective. In either case, there are some red flags such as pale or gray stools which may indicate a bile blockage. Red in your stool can be indicative of blood (are you SURE you didn’t eat beets yesterday?!) which should be further investigated. Generally though, according to TCM, we may look for signs of heat (or infection) in the intestines if we hear that there is dark yellow stools, or want to check liver function if they tend more greenish.

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07/12/2025

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Signs of imbalance include stool that is too soft, too dry, sticky, thin, small, stinky or any color other than a nice dark brown.

Pebbles: If you tell your acupuncturists that your p**p looks like goat droppings, s/he will check for signs of liver function. The liver, according to TCM, is in charge of keeping a smooth flow of qi in the body. If qi becomes stagnant, waste wont move along its exit path, instead it sits and dries up, breaking down into ‘pebbles’, especially when there is also excess heat involved.

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07/11/2025

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Signs of imbalance include stool that is too soft, too dry, sticky, thin, small, stinky or any color other than a nice dark brown.

Sticky or Slimy: If you have to wipe multiple times, you may have excess ‘dampness’ or ‘phlegm’ in the body. (In Western medicine this is associated with the inability to break down fat).

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07/10/2025

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Signs of imbalance include stool that is too soft, too dry, sticky, thin, small, stinky or any color other than a nice dark brown.

Thin: can be a result of qi deficiency or qi stagnation. Consistently pencil thin stools are considered a red flag in Western medicine, and while it may just be an area of spasm in the colon, it is best to rule out more serious concerns like a blockage such as a tumor.

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07/09/2025

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Healthy Habits Make Healthy Children! Growing healthy children requires healthy routines. Health is about consistent lifestyle patterns that build momentum and strengthen the body. Transitioning fr…

07/09/2025

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Signs of imbalance include stool that is too soft, too dry, sticky, thin, small, stinky or any color other than a nice dark brown.

Dry, hard: generally considered to be caused by a deficiency of yin (moisturizing, cooling aspects of the body), or blood. Basically, the person is dehydrated.

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07/08/2025

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Signs of imbalance include stool that is too soft, too dry, sticky, thin, small, stinky or any color other than a nice dark brown.

Soft or loose with undigested food: we look at spleen, stomach and small intestine absorptive function as well as the strength of the kidney yang or that fire of metabolism in the body.

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07/07/2025

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Why Do We Ask About Your Poop?  If it’s your first time seeing an acupuncturist you may be taken back by some of the questions you are asked during the intake. Even if you are just coming in f…