Apr 28, 2025 by Jason Gauruder
Categories: Acupuncture , Herbal Medicine , Natural Remedies , Pulse Diagnosis
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is something I see more and more often in the clinic. Some patients come in already on medication. Others are trying to avoid getting on it in the first place. Either way, most are surprised to learn that Chinese Medicine has a long history of treating what we now call […]
Apr 7, 2025 by Jason Gauruder
Categories: Acupuncture , Chinese Medicine , Herbal Medicine
This winter has been an especially cold one, and a prevalence of colds and viruses have shown a big uptick in chronic coughs that hang on for weeks after the initial Cold/Flu symptoms resolve. Clinically, I’ve seen this more than years past and have come up with a set of treatments to help clear this […]
Mar 14, 2025 by Jason Gauruder
Categories: Chinese Medicine , Educational , Herbal Medicine
When most people learn about herbs, they think in terms of what herb is good for congestion or what herb is good for arthritis. To a skilled practitioner, this is a poor way to think about herbs since they are very dynamic in their function and how they affect the overall body. TCM has always […]
Mar 5, 2025 by Jason Gauruder
Categories: Chinese Medicine , Educational , Herbal Medicine
When I graduated from Chinese Medicine School in 2014 I knew my focus was going to be herbal medicine. When I was in China I chose primarily herbal rotations, in Nepal I gave every internal medicine case herbs, and followed a TCM cardiology expert outside of Seattle. When I opened Garuda Health, I made sure […]
Feb 5, 2025 by Jason Gauruder
Categories: Chinese Medicine , Herbal Medicine
When it comes to understanding health and disease, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western medicine take fundamentally different approaches to diagnosis. It is my belief that neither system is incorrect in their approach, but simply have different methodologies and are actually in agreement with each other since they’re looking at the same human body. Let’s […]
Apr 26, 2021 by Jason Gauruder
Categories: Herbal Medicine , Chinese Medicine , Educational , Information
It is unknown when humans first started to eat or boil various parts of plants specifically for medicinal benefit, but we do know that every culture across the globe has through its history had a similar focus on using the natural world for health benefits. From the ancient Egyptians to the Native Americans and even […]