by iyashi | Jan 15, 2022 | Child/Kids Health, COVID 1, COVID19, Eastern Medicine, Family Health, Leaky Gut
One of the concepts within Chinese Medicine that is just beginning to be understood within the context of Western Medicine is the idea of a Latent Pathogenic Factor (LPF). Just as the name sounds, an LPF is a pathogen (such as a bacteria, virus, fungus, or parasite)...
by iyashi | Nov 10, 2021 | Child/Kids Health, Chinese Medicine, COVID 4, COVID19, Eastern Medicine, Family Health, Vaccines
On October 29th, the FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization for pediatric doses of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID19 vaccine for children 5 to 11 years of age, now adding to the availability of this vaccine for children 12 and older. Some parents and children could not...
by iyashi | Aug 22, 2020 | Child/Kids Health, Cold/Flu/COVID, COVID 6, COVID19, Family Health, Nutrition, Vaccines
It’s been 8 months since SARS-CoV-2 came into this world and there is much news out there about it. Many are accurate, but many are not. The public has a lot of questions about COVID19, the disease that results from an infection of the novel virus, SARS-CoV-2. The...
by iyashi | May 17, 2020 | Child/Kids Health, COVID 3, COVID19, Family Health
We are hearing more about children contracting a more severe inflammatory condition associated with COVID19, called MIS-C (Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children) or Kawasaki-like syndrome, in the news now. (It was formerly known as PIMS, Pediatric Inflammatory...
by iyashi | Apr 8, 2020 | Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, COVID 2, COVID19, Eastern Medicine
As of 12pm 4/6/2020, Los Angeles has 6360 cases of confirmed COVID19 individuals. The Public Health Department is asking all Los Angelenos to continue to Shelter in Place, and in particular for this week, to even avoid grocery shopping if you can, as we have a...
by iyashi | Mar 5, 2020 | COVID19, Uncategorized
Los Angeles County has declared a state of emergency to receive emergency funding quickly now that a patient has been confirmed with COVID19 through the West LA Kaiser facility (patient is being quarantined at home) and two more in Orange County. I have continued to...