oriental medicine

Tea Therapy: Samcheongdong’s Healing Restaurant

These days, I’m trying hard to alter my lifestyle to be a healthier, happier me. This entails everything from establishing a morning routine of drinking lemon water, stretching and dry brushing to cooking with fresh ingredients, limiting sugar intake and snacking on green smoothies. I’m learning that what we put into our bodies greatly affects …

Acupuncture for What Ails You

Earlier this month, I was struck with a stomach ailment that I originally thought was appendicitis.  After dropping about $500 in the emergency room at Seoul National University Hospital, I was told that all of my tests had returned normal.  After spending even more in their clinic on a return visit and some further tests …