Is Your Health Optimal? by Brian Benjamin Carter, MS, LAc

Body Temperature

* Wellness: Comfortable, unremarkable

* Imbalance: Feelings of heat or cold, hot flashes, chills, or alternating fever and chills

Chest & Abdomen

* Wellness: Comfortable chest, normal breathing, normal heart function. Comfortable abdomen, no bloating, no pain.

* Imbalance: Feeling of fullness or blockage in chest, cough with lots of phlegm, hot uncomfortable feeling in chest, pain in chest, or palpitations, abdominal pain of any type, or bloating relieved by passing gas or belching

Immunity

* Wellness: Resistance to environmental changes

* Imbalance: Aversion or sensitivity to wind, cold, heat, dryness, or dampness

Food Intake & Digestion

* Wellness: Good appetite, comfortable, effective digestion, variety of foods in diet

* Imbalance: No thought of food and drink, persistent nausea, very high appetite (out of proportion with nutritional needs) or preference for rich fatty foods, indigestion, acid reflux, food digested immediately and always hungry, or stomach pain better after eating. An excess of cold, raw, or fatty foods, and tobacco smoking are unhealthy

Gynecology & Obstetrics

* Wellness: Regular, red, moderate menses without pain or emotional fluctuations. That's right, no PMS

* Imbalance: Early, late, light, purple, bright red, thin, thick, clotted, painful, or irregular menstruation, painful distended breasts, PMS, miscarriage, difficult deliveries. Excessive childbirth can lead to long-term depletion

Sleep

* Wellness: Fall asleep easily at a sensible hour, stay asleep all night, no dreaming or pleasant dreaming, wake up restored and refreshed, wakeful and alert throughout the day

* Imbalance: Insomnia = Reduced or shallow sleep, profuse dreaming, nightlong sleeplessness, feeling hot or agitated during sleeping hours. Somnolence = extended periods of sleep, drowsy consciousness, desire only to sleep

Stool & Urine

* Wellness: Bowel movement once or twice per day - firm, without smell. Urination 4-6 times per day, light yellow color, no discomfort.

* Imbalance: Constipation, hard dry stool, difficult defecation, diarrhea, thin stool, loose stool, urgency, or loss of control. Great amount or frequency of urination, need to get up two or more times at night to urinate, rarely voiding small amounts, dark yellow color, pain or burning, or reddish urine.

As you can see, Chinese medicine has higher standards for well being. For example, Chinese medicine sees PMS as a sign of imbalance, whereas Western medicine says that since it is the statistical norm, it's acceptable. But with Chinese medicine, you don't have to put up with discomfort.

There's no need wait for more serious diseases to develop. We can treat any of the abnormal symptoms above and keep you healthy. That way, you'll prevent a lot of harder-to-treat, serious and complicated diseases.

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BIO:

Acupuncturist, herbalist, and medical professor Brian B. Carter founded the alternative health megasite The Pulse of Oriental Medicine (http://www.PulseMed.org/). He is the author of the book "Powerful Body, Peaceful Mind: How to Heal Yourself with Foods, Herbs, and Acupressure" (November, 2004). Brian speaks on radio across the country, and has been quoted and interviewed by Real Simple, Glamour, and ESPN magazines.

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