Lanphier Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine

19/11/2025

As we enter closer to the long evenings, this chart shows shows that vitamin D (which we primarily get from Summer sun) controls hundreds of processes in your body.

Vitamin D is controlling your:

☀️ Immune response
☀️ Bone building
☀️ Muscle function
☀️ Hormone signaling
☀️ Cell growth & cell death
☀️ Inflammation
☀️ Cancer-protective pathways
☀️ Calcium & phosphorus absorption
☀️ Even gene transcription inside the nucleus

19/10/2025

I always find acupuncture studies fascinating. Ultimately, acupuncture is really difficult to study. You can't reliably do a double blind. People in the studies are frequently there because nothing else has worked. And practitioners are limited to what they can do. For example, they aren't necessarily adding other techniques- gua sha, massage, herbs, moxibustion, nutrition. And still, acupuncture does well. And they are only measuring pain. Because we treat the whole person, people often improve in mood, sleep, and energy. Those aren't measured in most pain studies. That said, pain is one of the areas that acupuncture works amazingly well on. It's always worth doing.

NIH-funded study supports acupuncture needling as a safe and effective pain treatment for this group.

30/07/2025

Grief is our soul’s journey back
from long ago
when we left the great homeland
of our own heart.
It closes the distance.

Chelan Harkin