Have You Tried Acupuncture To Treat Your Autumn Allergies?
Do you typically get a cold in the late summer or early autumn?
This could be due to a seasonal allergy. Seasonal allergies occur like clock work, every year you get sick at the same time.
Allergies often provide the underlying medium for colds to develop. For some, allergies blossom into asthma. The two biggest environmental triggers for allergies in the fall are ragweed and mold spores.
Ragweed affects over 23 million Americans each year (American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.) In late summer, ragweed matures and produces a beautiful golden flower. Each plant can release up to one billion grains of pollen a season. Read More
Acupuncture and The Summer Time Blues
In 1958 rockabilly artist Eddie Cochran recorded a smash hit called “Summertime Blues.” So, what are exactly are the summertime blues? Is there a cure for them?
Many of you are familiar with SAD (seasonal affective disorder) where sufferers experience a lack of energy and depression in response to winter’s cold weather and absence of light. To accommodate to longer nights, the body produces higher levels of melatonin over an extended period of time. Melatonin is a hormone that promotes sleep. If you are producing too much melatonin, you may have trouble waking up. Additionally, winter’s darkness reduces serotonin, a neurotransmitter produced in the pineal gland that is associated with feelings of wellbeing.
Summertime depression or Summertime Season Affective Disorder is a different matter. If the onset of summer marks the beginning of insomnia, sleep deprivation, loss of appetite and interest in food, weight loss and an uptick in feelings of anxiety, agitation and inappropriate anger, you could be suffering from summertime depression or summertime SAD. A hallmark of this disorder is the return of symptoms every year in the late spring or early summer. Read More
By David Frome • Acupuncture, Air Cleaners • • Tags: Seasonal Affect Disorder, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Summer Time Blues