The Sweet Health Benefits of Honey
Who says living a healthy lifestyle needs to be bitter? If you’re looking to begin your wellness journey but don’t want to sacrifice your sweet tooth, you might find the answer among the bees. Bees make the sticky gold-colored liquid we’ve come to know as honey. You might have seen it used as a topping for toast or as a...
Natural Remedies for Allergies
It’s Allergy Season The sun is shining, flowers are starting to peek out of the soil, and puffy winter coats are being put away. Spring is coming! In Chinese Medicine, spring is the time of Wood energy, when the world starts to emerge from hibernation, days grow longer and warmer and our energy is rejuvenated. For some of us, though,...
Tips for Protecting Your Respiratory Immunity
It’s unusual to be thinking about upper-respiratory tract immunity when the summer solstice is upon us, but this is no usual summer. The current global pandemic makes the topic of respiration relevant even in what is normally the off season for flu-like viral infections. With so much still unclear about the risk factors and impacts of...
Is There a Link Between Artificial Food Dyes and Autism Spectrum Disorder?
It’s important to be mindful and diligent about what we consume to keep our bodies healthy. Much of what we find on the shelves contains food additives, preservatives, and other nasty ingredients. And one of these nasty ingredients—artificial food dyes—may play a role in autism spectrum disorder. While research is limited and has...
Food Sensitivities: Why You Should Consider the Alcat Test
Healthy or not, not all foods agree with everyone. Sometimes you can pinpoint the exact culprit that made you gassy. Other times, you may have absolutely no idea why you broke out in a horrible itchy rash. In fact, it can even be harder to detect when some reactions only rear their ugly head hours or even days later. So instead of...
Acupuncture for Kids
At Naturna, we treat babies as young as one week old. But what does Acupuncture treatment do for a child? How does it work? And a better question… how do you get your child to go to Acupuncture? For children in New York, a range of common ailments can impact daily living. From allergies exacerbated by the flowers of the Upper East...
What is Leaky Gut Really?
Leaky gut is a condition that has recently caught the attention of the medical and wellness community. Leaky gut is a layman’s term of describing intestinal permeability, as we have mentioned previously. In a healthy digestive tract, the walls of the small intestine create a barrier to keep the food we eat away from the rest of our...
Aiding Allergies with Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
Springtime allergies are notorious for plaguing New Yorkers every year. It is difficult to turn on the television and not see a commercial for some kind of allergy medicine or to walk outside and see people dodging pollen when a large gust of wind goes by. Acupuncture and herbs have been widely known to help with aches and pain as well as...
