It is an honor and a privilege to acknowledged for the work I do every day for patients and our community. Spotlight Practitioner Spotlight :: Amy Mager, MS, Lic.Ac., Dipl OM (NCCAOM), FABORM As a Lhasa OMS representative who attends a lot of industry events throughout the year, I have the pleasure of meeting many […]
Chinese herbal medicine to help with colds and flu? Yes. TCM helps thin mucous, decrease cough and support your immune system as you fight colds and flu. http://mspmag.com/health-and-fitness/can-chinese-herbs-stave-off-your-cold-and-flu/
Creating a Health Care Binder for each member of your family for acute and chronic healthcare issues can make challenging moments in time easier and more organized. I learned about this from my mother, Sandra E. Mager who graduated in the first class of patient advocates in the country. She taught me to use a […]
Chicken Soup to Support PostPartum Healing Chicken soup isn’t called Jewish penicillin for nothing. From a traditional Chinese Medicine perspective, it nourishes, supports and warms the center and promotes healing and circulation according to my teacher Dr. CS Cheung. He recommended that one make it with an “old” chicken to make sure one cooked it […]
Listen to Bob Flaherty of WHMP get cupped live on “Healing Outside the Box, Inside the Heart” radio segment: https://soundcloud.com/whmp/bob-gets-cuppedhttps://soundcloud.com/whmp/bob-gets-cupped
How acupuncture helps relieve pain. Research by two Universitites, working together to show HOW and why acupuncture relieves pain. From Healthcmi.com Acupuncture is effective for pain relief. Researchers from the University of South Florida (Tampa) and the Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Fuzhou) document that acupuncture alleviates pain, in part, by regulation of microglial […]
When you are going through Cancer treatments, you can use food to support you to feel as well as possible when you know how. To help with chemothaerapy related nausea: Indonesian ginger chews, fresh ginger tea, peeled, chopped and simmered for 10 mins. with a little honey added at the end, or Yummy Earth ginger […]
Hear an episode from Amy’s Podcast, featured on WHMP Radio: Choosing to be grateful can make you happier. In the segment “Healing from Outside the Box, Inside the Heart.” Northampton acupuncturist Amy Mager says you can change your brain to work to overcome difficulties like anxiety and depression. “Some people have a gene that increases positive […]
It’s getting colder, how can you take care of yourself at home to stay healthy and strong?Start your day with something warm: Oatmeal or quinoa with cinnamon to support your center. Miso, chicken soup or bone broth – not just for when you aren’t feeling well, to support you to stay well. You can use […]
We ask a great deal of our pelvic floor. We ask it to carry and hold 35-50 extra pounds when we grow a baby. We ask muscles to stretch and acommodate our precious, growing babe, and to hold that babe, our pelvis and all the muscles that hold up our perineum and organs to be […]