Bruce Robinson, MD, is a retired surgeon and former President of Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College-Berkeley (AIMC). He is also the author of BioMedicine: A Textbook for Practitioners of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, and Director of NBIMA (National Board of Internal Medicine for Acupuncturists).
Thomas O’Bryan, DC., is a Functional Medicine expert on Celiac Disease and Gluten Sensitivity (or Gluten Intolerance).
Dr. Thomas O’Bryan
I am trained through Dr. O’Bryan and am a ‘Certified Gluten Practitioner’.
Jake Paul Fratkin, DOM, Dipl.Ac., author and educator. Dr. Fratkin is the author of Chinese Herbal Patent Medicines: The Clinical Desk Reference, THE resource on this topic. This book includes any Chinese Patent Medicine sold in the U.S., which he has tested for ingredients and impurities. Dr. Fratkin is also an excellent educator who integrates Functional Medicine in his practice and teachings. I learned tincture-making primarily through his teachings years ago (but he now uses a different and less inventory-intensive process).
Dr. Jake Paul Fratkin
Bob Flaws, DOM, Dipl.Ac., is a prolific author in and scholar of Chinese Medicine. He specializes in Chinese Herbology and Gynecology. He is the premier American scholar of Chinese Medicine and has brought many Chinese Medicine classical texts to the American acupuncturist, and continues to bring current research in China to us via his translations of such works. He also has created his own line of Chinese herbal remedies.
Blue Poppy
Isaac Eliaz, M.D., is an Integrative Oncology specialist. He is a Licensed Acupuncturist and integrates Chinese Medicine and Naturopathic Medicine with allopathy (our common ‘western medicine’). He is the founder and researcher of EcoNugenics, a nutraceutical product company known for anti-cancer products (PectaSol (Modified Citrus Pectin or MCP) and BreastDefend).
Research shows MCP to be effective in many types of cancer, especially breast and prostate cancer. See his various websites for more details:
Dr. Eliaz’s Clinic
Dr. Eliaz
EcoNugenics
Breast Cancer Guide
Prostate Cancer Guide
EcoNugenics products are sold at Heavenly Herbs and Acupuncture.
Rebecca Katz is the author of the cookbook The Cancer Fighting Kitchen and is a senior chef of Commonweal Cancer Help Program in Marin County, California. The Commonweal Program is the epitome of teaching people to use Integrative Medicine to treat cancer. This cookbook is full of good, healthy, fun and EASY recipes and useful for anybody who KNOWS they should eat healthy but aren’t sure where to start!
From Harper’s Index, October 2011:
‘Number of states in which less than 20 percent of adults are obese: 0’
Reference: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)
John Chen, Ph.D., Pharm.D., O.M.D., L.Ac., is the founder of Evergreen Herbs, a supplier of Chinese herbal medicine formulas, and Lotus Institute of Integrative Medicine, an educational company focusing on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Dr. John Chen is a third-generation Chinese herbalist and is THE TCM scholar on the pharmacological actions of Chinese herbs. He is also the expert in the field regarding drug and herb interactions. He has written several books.
Evergreen Herbs
Lotus Institute of Integrative Medicine
Dr. Jeffrey Bland, founder of the nutraceutical company Metagenics and Institute of Functional Medicine, (IFM).
Functional Medicine is the THE model of Integrative Medicine: combining the best of standard allopathic medicine with Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)!
Dr. Jeffrey Bland
Institute of Functional Medicine
Dr. Bland received the 2011 Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award.
Update: See my blog entry about attending the IFM’s 2014 Conference.
In March 2006, Harper’s Magazine published a very interesting ‘annotation’: Viral Marketing, the selling of the flu vaccine, by Peter Doshi. This is only available online to subscribers of Harper’s Magazine, but this article covers it very well:
MIT grad shows CDC mind-behavior control duping doctors and public to buy vaccine
Wheat Belly by William Davis, MD, was published in 2011. This book tells more of the story as to why wheat is a grain that should be consumed rarely, if at all. This book especially shows how wheat consumption leads to a a ‘wheat belly’ – visceral fat accumulation – and hence to the rise in diabetes since it affects our blood sugar levels almost as bad as plain table sugar (this includes ‘whole grain’ bread)!
Life Extension Foundation magazine article: Wheat – the Unhealthy Whole Grain
If you have arthritis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or simply want to lose weight: READ THIS BOOK so you understand why the inflammatory cascade that wheat causes has helped lead us to an epidemic level of obesity, many inflammatory conditions and even auto-immune disease!
Great article that includes herbs and foods used in Traditional Chinese Medicine food therapy with easy recipe for flu and cold prevention! This is exactly in alignment with my typical advice to patients (uses herbs/medicinal foods mentioned in my Flu article: Treating Influenza and Viral Infections using Natural Medicine.)
How to Boost your Immune System with Herbs
Astragalus Tonic Soup recipe
Here’s another link for the soup recipe on this blog (in case the above link disappears sometime in the future):
Astragalus Tonic Soup recipe
Of course, Astragalus can be purchased at my office (it has a mild, sweet taste)!
My simple Flu Prevention advice originally written in Winter 2009, when the H1N1 virus was rampant (kept it brief to hand out to patients)!
Treating Influenza and Viral Infections using Natural Medicine
‘Ba Zheng San’ is a common Chinese herbal formula for a bladder infection or Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). It works extremely well and will definitely out-perform using cranberry juice or other western herbs! I use the version from Evergreen Herbs. This formula is available from many other companies, but I think this one works the best! Of course, drink plenty of fluids to flush the bladder too (read: plenty of water)! And if one wants to use cranberry juice, I recommend using the non-sugar-added variety and drink about one quart per day for 5-7 days. I also carry a cranberry pill for those hard-core cranberry ‘lovers’: Nature’s Answer Cranberry 2 also includes western anti-bacterial herbs, so this is a good combination formula as well.
Dr. Alan Gaby is a M.D. specializing in nutritional medicine. In 2010, he published a tomb of nutritional research, Nutritional Medicine. He is the author several other books, has been the contributing medical editor for the Townsend Letter for Doctors since 1985, and contributing editor for Alternative Medicine Review since 1996.
Dr. Alan Gaby
Dr. Tori Hudson, N.D. is a prominent Naturopathic Physician, whose specialty is Women’s Health. She is the author of “Women’s Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine, 2nd edition”, is a Women’s Health columnist for the “Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients” and the newsletter “Emerson Quarterly”, by Emerson Ecologics, a naturopathic product distribution company (recipient of the 2011 Corporation of the Year award from The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP).
“Health and healing is a constant day-by-day event. We never get there. Curing is actually a by-product of healing, not the goal.”- Don Campbell, author of Music and Miracles (from a calendar called ‘Wise Words’ on Sept 20). Indeed, wise words!
A research journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Alternative Therapies of Health and Medicine. This journal covers a very diverse and wide array of topics in this field: from specific herbal medicinals to homeopathy to nutrition to meditation to Chinese Medicine to reflexology to biofeedback to nutraceuticals to… the list goes on and on!!!
