Holistic Healing with Herbs and Chinese Medicine was an internet radio show we created for VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel. We presented ways in which herbs, acupuncture, food, and qi gong can be used to address common chronic and acute health problems. During the course of the 14 show series, we explored a wide range of issues including the presentation of solutions rooted in Chinese medicine for different health issues such as the common cold, pain relief, male and Continue Reading
How Acupuncture Works For Depression
Written by Andres Vergara, Dipl. OM, L.Ac. and Michele Vergara, RH (AHG) Depression and Acupuncture Treatment Acupuncture is time-tested way to unblock and free the flow of qi. What is anger, sadness, frustration? These are but amalgamations of unhealthy qi that have accumulated into patterns and habitual ways of being that interfere with ease and a sense of fulfillment in life. How can acupuncture help? Acupuncture can help to reorganize the patterns and habits from the inside out. Continue Reading
How Chinese Medicine Can Help Anxiety
Written by Andres Vergara, Dipl.OM, L.Ac. and Michele Collins Vergara, RH (AHG), MPH Anxiety often represents an advanced progression of various smaller imbalances and thought patterns. In Chinese medicine various symptoms are used as clues to understand how to easily and practically address the reality of anxiety. In order to best help we ask clients to breakdown how does anxiety feel in their body. Are there heart palpitations? Is there a shortness of breath? Spinning thoughts? Sleep Continue Reading
Experience all 4 Branches of Chinese Medicine
In the interest of providing more comprehensive care, we have designed some opportunities to better promote a deeper healing facilitated by the synergy of the 4 branches of Chinese medicine. Each of these therapies serves to support and reinforce the other. Also, in addition to receiving acupuncture and a customized herbal formula, we also will teach you important self care tools from Chinese nutritional therapy and qi gong to help you manage your own healing process. Here is more information Continue Reading
Modern Research for the Ancient Practice of Acupuncture
Andres Vergara and Michele Collins Vergara Acupuncture, a therapeutic technique that is thousands of years old, is part of the larger system of Chinese medicine. It involves the use of very small, sterile, stainless steel needles in specific areas on the human body called acupuncture points. These points fall along specific acupuncture meridians that usually originate or end in the digits of the hands and feet, but can also originate in the head. Usually body points and points on the arms and Continue Reading
4 Branches and the Heart of Chinese Medicine at New Address
by Andres Vergara and Michele Vergara As of November 1st, Andres and Michele will be moving their office from the Naturopathic Health Clinic (2522 Reynolda Rd.) to a few doors down at 2594B Reynolda Rd. As many of you may know, Andres and Michele have been practicing at the Naturopathic Health Clinic in Winston Salem, Michele for the past eight years and Andres for nearly three years. It has been a wonderful home for us, but we are ready a little more space. It is an exciting expansion for Continue Reading
Learn to Dissolve Negative Emotions
Michele Collins and Andres Vergara We have all had moments when unpleasant emotions, whether it is fear, anger, worry, frustration, grief, come up with surprising force and cloud our judgment and leave us feeling unpleasant or upset. These emotions can drain your energy and cause unnecessary suffering to yourself and others. We (Andres and Michele) have found some practical and transformative tools in our qi gong practice that have taught us how to neutralize these emotions and use that energy Continue Reading
Why Sweat a Cold?
Andres Vergara and Michele Collins The ancient chinese used natural metaphors to understand illness and health. These developed into a diagnostically useful framework that is effective for many types of ailments. One of these is the common cold. Have you ever heard the idea that whoever discovered a cure for the cold would make billions? In fact the ancient Chinese have already developed cures for the cold. But you will not find it in a pill. Instead it is a complex and diagnostically Continue Reading
First Aid Herbal Medicine Making Classes
Aloe plant (sabila) taken in Colombia - this is an excellent plant for burns, sunburns, wounds, insect bites Nature offers an amazing pharmacopeia of brilliant and abundant aid that is available to anyone who knows how to make use of it. There are many simple and easy preparations you can learn how to make to help yourself, your family, and your friends with many common health concerns, such as insect bites, cuts, wounds, burns, sunburns, and much more. Michele will be teaching a series of four Continue Reading
The Benefits of a Consistent Qi Gong Practice
This is a video of Andres explaining the benefits of qi gong and demonstrating the lung healing sound, an excerpt of one of the meditations from Qi Gong For Radiant Health. Michele Collins, RH (AHG), MPH and Andres Vergara, D.OM., L.Ac. Qi Gong translates as skill with Qi, while nei Gong means internal skill. Qi gong and nei gong represent systems of meditative knowledge that have a history of over 5000 years in China. We are very lucky that these practices have remained intact and are Continue Reading
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