Infuse Health Clinic

10/21/2026

Elder was traditionally planted at the edge of the herb garden as a protector. This plant is a wonderful protector for our immune systems. The berries make a tasty syrup and can be taken on a regular basis to help ward off and treat colds and flu as they have antiviral properties (but don't eat them raw, they will make you puke). Stock up on some elderberry syrup next time you are in the clinic and let food be thy medicine 💜

10/19/2026

Fall allergies
It's not a cold. You've been wondering that for three weeks.
The throat thing that's worse in the morning. The one nostril. The cough that only shows up
when you lie down. The tickle at the back of your throat you keep trying to clear and can't.
That's postnasal drip. And it's the most under-recognized fall allergy symptom there is.
Everyone knows about itchy eyes and sneezing. Almost nobody connects the throat clearing,
the hoarseness, the morning cough, and the fog.
Yes, the fog. Fall allergies make people foggy and exhausted and nobody tells them that's
what's happening. You're not sleeping well because you're congested the moment you lie down,
your body is running an inflammatory response all day, and antihistamines are sedating. Of
course you can't think.
Here's the thing worth understanding: allergies are an immune system overreacting to
something harmless. Antihistamines block the reaction. They don't change the overreaction.
Chinese Medicine treats responsiveness itself.

We strengthen the immune barrier — what we call wei qi, the protective layer at the surface of
the body — so your system stops treating pollen and environmental triggers like an invasion.
Most patients notice the increase in energy first. And then less coughing. And then their whole
face calms down. This is a reflection of the inflammation cascade settling down.
Fall is Lung season in Chinese Medicine, which makes this the most effective window of the
year to treat it.
You don't have to spend the whole season foggy.

10/16/2026

Anger. Frustration. Feeling stuck.
Fall is the season of letting go; things are dying back, the yang is weaning, it's time to nestle in. Sometimes this creates grief and sadness. I'm also seeing a lot of anger, perhaps our bodies are struggling against the change or we are living in a situation that we are currently unable to change, or things are just too much (the world is too much!). I can help! I'm here to listen, without judgement, and use my tools to help you navigate and calm the emotions while finding a secure base in yourself. After the treatment, I often hear people say "I feel like myself again" 💛

10/13/2026

Looking for something new to do with that squash? I made this salad this weekend and it was a huge hit! It felt good to nourish my body with veggies, yum!

For a creamy, rich and dairy-free salad dressing, use almond butter instead of olive oil. It provides rich savoriness and body, like mild tahini or peanut butter.

10/12/2026

GLP-1s and constipation
You have not had a normal bowel movement since you started the GLP-1.
Nobody warned you about this part. Or it got mentioned once, in a list, and you assumed it
would settle.

It didn't settle. Here's why.
GLP-1 medications work by slowing how fast your stomach empties. That's not a side effect that
went wrong — that's the mechanism. It's the entire reason you're not hungry. Slower stomach,
slower everything downstream.
Which is why the standard advice isn't working for you. More fiber into a system that isn't
moving usually makes it worse.
More bulk, same stalled transit. Water helps a little. Magnesium helps some people. None of it
touches the actual issue, which is that the motor driving things forward has been deliberately
turned down.
You should not have to choose between the medication and having a gut that works.
Acupuncture treats motility directly — the muscular wave that moves things through. We are not
fighting your medication. We're restoring the movement it slowed down, so the drug can do the
job you're taking it for without your digestion paying the bill.
In Chinese Medicine, Fall is the season of the Lung and Large Intestine. These are the systems
that govern letting go, physically. This is exactly the right time of year to address it.
If you're on a GLP-1 and your bowels have stopped cooperating, we can help.

10/07/2026

Travel is so much fun, but it can be hard on the body. Different foods and routines, and staying healthy around all those coughing people in the airport! At IHC I offer immune boosting injections to keep your system strong during travel, and when you return, acupuncture to help your body get back on track with digestion and sleep.

09/24/2026

September has brought a lot of change. Kids back in school and the colds & flu already flying around from day 1. Cold temps are here at night (wait, what? I have to find a jacket and socks?) and bodies are aching! Some of us love the fall and the signal to start nesting for the winter; but there is also grief that comes with the summer ending, and apprehension of the long winter to come.
These are the things acupuncture can help with. I have my appointment booked this week, because I know I really need help with this season change; how about you? 🍁🍂

09/21/2026

"Nobody has been able to figure this out"
I hear a version of this in most first visits: "I know these are probably unrelated, but—
"
And then out it all comes. The bloating. The dry skin patch on one elbow. The sinus thing that
never fully clears. Waking at three am every night. The headaches. The shoulder.
Six separate problems. Each one examined carefully by someone competent, and each one
came back mostly normal, or mostly manageable. And you walked out of every appointment
with the same feeling — that somebody should be looking at all of it at once, and nobody is.
That's why I do what I do. Chinese Medicine is a complete system that sees you as a whole
person. Not a collection of symptoms in isolation.
Chinese medicine isn't organized around body parts. It's organized around patterns — how a
whole system behaves under a particular kind of strain. So the fact that your gut, your skin, your
sinuses, and your immune barrier are all struggling in the same season isn't a coincidence to be
explained away. It's the diagnosis. Those are one system in this medicine. They fail together, in
a recognizable order, for recognizable reasons.
When I take your history I'm not collecting complaints. I'm looking for the shape they make. The
shape tells me where to treat, and treating the shape is why six things improve when you come
in about one.
It's also why I'll ask about your sleep when you come in for your knee.
Bring me the whole list. Including the parts you've stopped mentioning because nobody had
anywhere to put them.

09/17/2026

Joint pain that's really a fluid problem
Your rings are stuck. You feel like a marshmallow.
Stiff for the first twenty minutes of the day, better once you move.
Puffy hands and feet, worse in the morning, worse after a day at a desk. Heavy limbs. Ankle
marks from your socks.
Your lymphatic system has no pump. It moves on muscle contraction, on breath, on the rhythm
of your day.
When you're sitting more than you're moving, when your breathing is shallow, when digestion
has gone sluggish — fluid pools. And it pools around joints. The joint gets compressed,
circulation drops, and the tissue turns stiff and sore without anything being structurally wrong
with it.
Chinese medicine has described this for a very long time as a dampness problem. And
dampness is a spleen and lung problem. These are the systems that govern fluid
transformation and the downward, outward movement of breath.
It's also exactly why this shows up right now. Late summer turning into fall is precisely when that
handoff strains, and puffy achy joints are one of the most common things walking through my
door in September.
It responds well, and it responds reasonably fast. Acupuncture moves the fluid and restores the
mechanics that are supposed to be doing it for you, so joint pain stops being the first thing you
feel every morning.

09/15/2026

At some point it falls apart if you keep going and not tending to things.