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12/29/2025

Best Holiday Season in SoCal!

12/25/2025

Modern wellness isn’t always healthy — from a TCM perspective 👀

❌ Juice fasts & extreme detoxes
→ weaken digestion, cause fatigue & bloating

❌ Ice baths & cold plunges
→ drain energy, disrupt hormones, worsen pain

❌ Raw vegan 24/7
→ too cold for digestion → weakness & imbalance

❌ Skipping meals & hard fasting
→ weakens Qi (breakfast = key in TCM)

❌ Too many supplements
→ overloads the Liver, creates imbalance

❌ Overtraining when tired
→ burns Qi & Yin → injuries, insomnia

❌ Cold drinks & smoothie culture
→ kills digestive fire

❌ Coffee + stimulants = “biohacking”
→ short-term energy, long-term burnout

❌ Extreme keto / zero carbs
→ weak Spleen, mood & hormone issues

❌ Late nights
→ Liver can’t restore → PMS, skin, irritability

TCM truth:
Healing isn’t extreme.
It’s warm, rhythmic, balanced, and personalized.

✨ Support your Qi — don’t punish it.

12/24/2025

12/22/2025

Healing Chinese Black Silkie Chicken Soup

乌鸡滋补汤 (Wu Ji Zi Bu Tang)

Ingredients:

1 black Silkie chicken (whole or ½, 800–1200 g)

6–8 goji berries

4–6 red jujube dates

5–8 slices of fresh ginger

1–2 pieces of Chinese angelica root

1 tbsp dried astragalus root

1–2 dried shiitake mushrooms

1–1.5 liters water

Salt to taste

Instructions:

Rinse the chicken well.

Place the chicken in a pot or clay soup pot.

Add all ingredients except salt.

Pour in cold water and bring to a boil.

Reduce heat and simmer on very low heat for 3–4 hours

Add salt during the last 10 minutes of cooking.

Before serving, add a few drops of sesame oil if desired.

How it’s traditionally enjoyed in China:

Drink the soup warm, in small portions

Eat the chicken together with the broth

Commonly prepared in fall and winter, after illness, childbirth, or during fatigue

From the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine:

Nourishes Blood and Yin

Strengthens the Kidneys and Liver

Supports immunity

Helpful for fatigue, anemia, weakness, and hormonal imbalance

12/17/2025

12/14/2025

I’m often told:
“You do such great work… if only you accepted insurance, it would be absolutely perfect!”

But no one ever says the other thing:
“Thank you for treating us not according to insurance company requirements,
but according to what I truly need.
For not spending your time on endless reports, codes, and authorizations,
and instead giving that time to us — real people.”

I don’t accept insurance not because “it’s more convenient.”
But because in my practice:
— treatment is not adjusted to limits
— appointments are not cut down to 15 minutes
— decisions are made by me, the doctor, not by an insurance company algorithm

I am free from insurance rules — and that means more attention, more responsibility, and more real medicine.
And if you value this, please know: for me, this is the most meaningful gratitude.

Below in the photo is the “worthy” compensation an insurance company pays for our work.

12/13/2025

Dear Friends,

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— Swedish massage therapy
— Myofascial release therapy
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📍 Address: 5755 Oberlin Dr, Suite #315, San Diego, CA
🕰 Hours: Monday–Saturday 9:00 AM–8:00 PM (by appointment)
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🌐 Website: https://medvedacupuncture.com/

📞 Phone: (858) 705-7933

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MedVed Clinic of Eastern Medicine
Acupuncture • Massage Therapy • Cupping • Holistic Healing • San Diego

12/10/2025

WHY MODERN WELLNESS TRENDS ARE UNACCEPTABLE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (TCM)

Extreme detoxes and juice fasting
Prolonged fasting and cold juices greatly weaken the Spleen and Stomach.
Consequences: bloating, weakness, dizziness, cold hands and feet.

Ice baths and cold plunges
Excess cold constricts vessels and can impair blood and lymph circulation, cause pain, cycle irregularities, and low energy.
Not suitable for everyone and definitely harmful for people with cold conditions, fatigue, joint pain, or fertility issues.

Raw vegan diets as a permanent lifestyle
Raw food is cold by nature and weakens digestion.
Short cleanses are fine.
Long-term use causes weakness, anemia, bloating, swelling, and hormonal imbalances.

Skipping meals / strict intermittent fasting
Mild time restriction can help some people, but skipping meals (especially breakfast) weakens the Spleen and reduces Qi.
Digestion is strongest from 7 to 11 AM — that’s when you should eat breakfast.

Excessive supplement use
Too many supplements overload the Liver, create Dampness, and disrupt natural regulatory mechanisms.
TCM favors precise herbal prescriptions rather than “everything at once.”

Intense workouts when fatigued
Excess sweating depletes Qi and Yin.
Overtraining leads to injuries, cycle issues, insomnia, irritability.
TCM supports moderate activity: walking, tai chi, qigong — and restoring Qi before heavier exercise.

Constant consumption of cold drinks (smoothie culture)
Cold beverages extinguish the digestive fire.
Common effects: bloating, weak digestion, sugar cravings, fatigue, poor memory, sleep issues, weight gain.

Biohacking with stimulants (coffee + nootropics + stimulants)
Excess stimulants burn out the Kidneys and Heart → anxiety, insomnia, palpitations, exhaustion.

Excessive sauna use
Moderate sweating is beneficial.
Excess sweating is harmful — it damages Yin and body fluids.
Signs: dryness, irritability, dizziness.

Psychedelic “healing journeys” as a shortcut to trauma work
Opening the Shen (Spirit) too quickly without grounding can destabilize the psyche.

Extreme keto diets / zero carbs
Lack of grains weakens Spleen Qi, worsens mood, causes dryness and hormonal disruptions (especially in women): the body needs moderate carbohydrates.

Late sleep (“I’m a night owl, that’s how I am”)
TCM view:
The Liver restores itself and renews the Blood from 11 PM to 3 AM.
Going to bed late disrupts Liver function and causes PMS, irritability, and skin problems.

12/08/2025

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐈𝐋, 𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐈𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐒,

is a famous aromatic blend of essential oils that originated during the plague epidemics in France in the 14th–17th centuries, when thieves who robbed the homes of the dead mysteriously remained healthy.
According to legend, they protected themselves from “miasmas” — contaminated air — by using a powerful antiseptic herbal mixture.

When they were eventually caught, the court agreed to lessen their punishment in exchange for the secret of how they avoided infection. They revealed that they rubbed themselves daily with a blend of aromatic oils and carried cloth sachets filled with strongly scented herbs.
Today, this blend is known as Thieves Oil.

The classic formula includes five key oils:
– Clove — a powerful antiseptic and antiviral component (40 drops)
– Cinnamon — warming, antibacterial, a strong natural preservative (20 drops)
– Lemon — purifies the air and breaks down bacterial films (35 drops)
– Rosemary — supports breathing and suppresses microbes (10 drops)
– Eucalyptus — clears the respiratory tract, strong antiviral oil (15 drops)

This combination truly has potent antimicrobial properties, which modern essential oil research supports.

How Thieves Oil works:
– Antiseptic action — inhibits the growth of bacteria and fungi
– Antiviral effect — some components disrupt viral envelopes
– Air purification — essential oils help break down airborne bacterial particles
– Immune support — stimulates breathing and the body’s natural defenses

Historical uses:
– Worn around the neck in sachets soaked with the blend
– Used in balms rubbed on hands, neck, and clothing
– Burned for fumigation and purification of rooms
– Diluted in vinegar (the famous Vinegar of the Four Thieves)

Modern uses:
– In diffusers to cleanse the air
– In natural hand and surface sprays
– In protective herbal sachets
– For aromatherapy massage (always diluted!)
– For general immune support

Important:
Clove and cinnamon essential oils are very strong skin irritants. They should never be applied undiluted. Always mix them with a carrier oil (almond, jojoba, coconut).

12/08/2025

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We have it in our Herbal Pharmacy!
$12/ each.
Call us or text to schedule your visit
(858) 795-7933.

12/05/2025

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12/03/2025

🌿 How much should you walk to stay healthy?
And is “the more, the better” really true?

In Eastern Medicine they say:
“When we walk too little — the kidneys become weaker.
When we walk and stand too much — we age faster.”

Why?
Because in Traditional Chinese Medicine, kidney health = longevity.

Many people believe: more steps → better health.
But that’s not always the case.

And here’s an amazing fact:
👉 Your kidneys move with every step and every breath.

In a healthy person:
• during walking — they move 2–3 cm up and down
• during a deep breath — 3–5 cm (the diaphragm presses from above)

This is completely normal, natural mobility.

🟢 Why do the kidneys move at all?
Because they are:
✔ suspended by ligaments
✔ surrounded by a fat capsule
✔ “springing” along with other abdominal organs

The kidneys are held in place by:
• the renal fascia
• the diaphragm fascia
• visceral ligaments
• the fat capsule
• the muscles of the posterior abdominal wall (quadratus lumborum, psoas)

🔸 When does this become a problem?
When you walk too much.
When you stand for too long.

Long daily commutes, step-marathons, 8–9 hours standing at work — all of this can lead to excessive kidney mobility and even nephroptosis (kidney prolapse).

In this case the kidney may:
• pull on ligaments
• cause pain in the lower back or abdomen
• radiate pain to the groin or thigh
• trigger nausea and weakness
• impair urine flow

✨ And once again, ancient Chinese wisdom was right:
🔑 Health is balance. Everything must be in moderation.
Not too little.
Not too much.
But — in harmony.