Sinus congestion is miserable in a way that is hard to explain to anyone who has not had it – the pressure behind the cheeks and eyes, the blocked nose that will not clear, the post-nasal drip…

Most of us now spend eight to ten hours a day looking at screens, and our eyes are paying for it: dryness, grittiness, redness, blurred vision by evening and headaches behind the eyes. Add…

A fading sex drive is one of the quiet reasons people visit a Chinese herbalist. It is rarely talked about, yet it is one of the conditions Chinese medicine has the longest written history of…

Cold hands and feet in a warm room. Legs that feel heavy by evening. Varicose veins, easy bruising, a dusky complexion, or pain that is fixed in one spot and worse at night. In Traditional…

Urinary tract infections are among the most common bacterial infections in women, and for many they keep coming back – three, four, five times a year – despite repeated courses of antibiotics.…

Peripheral neuropathy – numbness, tingling, burning or pins-and-needles in the feet and hands – is one of the most frustrating conditions to live with. It is most often caused by diabetes, but…

Tinnitus – a ringing, buzzing, hissing or roaring sound that only you can hear – affects roughly one in ten adults, and conventional medicine often has little to offer beyond “learn to live with…

A gout attack is hard to forget: a big toe or ankle that becomes red, hot, swollen and so tender that a bedsheet hurts. Gout is caused by uric acid crystals forming in the joint, and it is…