Neti Pots sold out for weeks after Dr. Oz on Oprah showed the world how using them helps allergies. (Grr, what does Dr. Oz have that I don’t– well, besides Oprah Winfrey?)
Need a nasal douche for your allergies?
My doctor father had me doing nasal douches way before America caught onto the Neti Pot. In fact, [...]

This entry was posted on Monday, May 17th, 2010 at 6:38 pm and is filed under Allergies, Alternative Medicine. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

“Netipot Netipot, Will you wash out my snot?” Seasonal allergies. About 60 million Americans suffer from seasonal allergies. Allergies are on the rise, “particularly in urban areas. Allergies cause sneezing, stuffy runny nose
See the video to watch me do a Netipot live on the news.

Spring is here! The daffodils, irises, hyacinths, and all their [...]

This entry was posted on Monday, May 18th, 2009 at 7:38 pm and is filed under Allergies, Alternative Medicine, Video. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

“She may be weary, Women do get weary, Wearing the same shabby dress…” Don’t you ever get tired and demoralized, feeling like you’ve been run down by a 100-ton freighter?
This is not a multivitamin commercial, as I’m not an advocate for multivitamins; I’m an advocate for eating balanced healthy meals to get vitamins [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, February 8th, 2009 at 10:12 am and is filed under Alternative Medicine, Blood, Food, Neurologic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Pain is something that’s awful, prevalent, and hard to describe to someone else. Some people experience pain, others share the pain (and yet still others just cause pain).
I was shopping at the local ABC store. (Mary Poppins sang, “A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down,” but did not include “A small [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 1st, 2006 at 5:12 pm and is filed under Alternative Medicine, Bones & Muscles, Pain, Rheumatology, Senior Citizens. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Felix Unger from The Odd Couple has a bad rap. C’mon, if you had to live with an ultra slob like Oscar Madison– who probably smells like spoiled Oscar Mayer– versus nice, clean, and responsible Felix with chronic sinus infections, I think the choice is clear. Plus, Felix is a great name. “Hey, Felix! I’m [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 9th, 2006 at 12:26 pm and is filed under Alternative Medicine, Infections. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Have you ever gone somewhere incognito? Jan Brady went to the pharmacy wearing a head scarf and Jackie O sunglasses because she wanted to buy a product to remove her freckles. Michael Jackson wore a mummy outfit to avoid the paparazzi– like that would work.
I wanted to go incognito when I went for my [...]

This entry was posted on Sunday, February 5th, 2006 at 2:19 pm and is filed under Alternative Medicine, Bones & Muscles, Pain. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

We were the only Asian people in the small town in Ohio where I grew up. In fact, many of the people thought we were Mexican because they weren’t used to seeing Asian people. Ole!
So when my classmates learned I ate exotic foods like sushi, seaweed, and squid (aka calamari, which I think [...]

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 6th, 2005 at 12:36 pm and is filed under Alternative Medicine, Exercise, Senior Citizens. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.