Dr. Safiya McCarter

12/19/2025

From naturopathic medicine, acupuncture to fire cupping, our holistic services offer mind-body healing. Each treatment is customized to support your unique health goals. 🌸 Ready to thrive naturally?

12/17/2025

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) each season is associated with an element and an organ. We are in the midst of the transition from fall to winter. Clinically, these transitional times result in increased incidents of illness. The fall is associated with the lungs and its counterpart the large intestine and the metal element. The winter season is associated with the kidney and its counterpart the bladder and the water element. To maintain health and decrease your risk of getting sick, it is important from both a TCM and western medicine perspective to support your immune system. This is especially important at this time of year as we are in the peak of cold and flu season. So, how do we support and nourish our health and bodies during this time of year?
In the peak of cold and flu season, support your immune system with foods and spices that are high in water like
white mushrooms
daikon radish and other root vegetables like garlic, onion and leeks
pears, apples
cinnamon
fermented foods
bone broth

This is the perfect season for soups and stews where a variety of the foods and spices mentioned can be added. Experiment and enjoy!

12/15/2025

Starting your fertility journey? At Flourish and Balance, we work with many individuals and couples that are at the beginning stages of family planning or who are actively trying to conceive (TTC) and are seeking a holistic, integrative approach to support their fertility journey. Our whole body, whole health approach includes testing and education regarding those factors that can negatively impact fertility such as chronic inflammation and elevated blood sugar. Chronic inflammation, as we see with diabetes, has negative consequences on reproductive health affecting male factor fertility resulting in low s***m count, poor s***m quality and poor blood flow to the reproductive tract. The consequences to female factor fertility include hormone imbalances, poor egg quality irregular me**es and ovulation as well as increased risk of miscarriage.

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12/08/2025

12/06/2025

Give yourself the gift of release from anxiety this season! 🎁

12/04/2025

Maintain your health and keep your peace this holiday season!

11/29/2025

In the immortal words of Wu-Tang Clan...Protect Ya Neck! Winter is approaching and the wind is blowing. Warmth is the name of the game, especially your neck. Why? There's an acupuncture point at the base of the back of the neck that is particularly susceptible to "invasion by pathogenic cold". Symptoms include sudden onset of fever and chills, sore throat and an aversion to wind/cold. Needling this point can be helping in treating symptoms that result from cold/wind exposure so keep acupuncture in mind! Prevention is a hallmark of both Naturopathic and Acupuncture medicine and of the simplest things you can do preventively is to make sure your neck is covered when you are out and about during this chilly time of year.

05/15/2025

When friends asked why I was going through this fellowship I responded initially by saying that I loved learning. This is true, and I would go back to school again in a heartbeat! As I reflected, going through this fellowship experience confirmed the strength of my education and training as a Naturopathic doctor, it provided me with new tools and resources to better serve my patients, and it has opened up a broader community of likeminded natural/functional and conventional colleagues to whom I can refer and with whom I can collaborate to better serve my patients. I am glad that I did it and am eager to revamp some of my offerings due to the additional knowledge that I have gained...stay tuned!



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04/03/2025

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03/26/2025

I will be there, will you?
The theme of this year's celebration of Black Maternal Health Week is "Healing Legacies: Strengthening Black Maternal Health through Collective Action and Advocacy". If you can come out to learn and make your voice heard!

03/21/2025