by Karen Nunley | Mar 16, 2020 | Central Texas Allergies, General Acupuncture
Treatment with Acupuncture We’ve had a lot of rain here in Austin, Texas, over the last week. For many this is a blessing! For those who are allergic to molds, not so much. Our recent rains may have triggered your allergies with symptoms like sneezing,...
by Karen Nunley | Mar 9, 2020 | Central Texas Allergies, General Acupuncture
You are not alone! Spring has sprung and everything is blooming. Which means the tree pollen counts are high and many central Texans are suffering with itchy, sniffly, congested noses. According to a very recent study, acupuncture safely and effectively treats this...
by Karen Nunley | Jul 22, 2019 | Central Texas Allergies
Lower ragweed pollen levels! Usually this is the time of year that ragweed starts blooming and driving folks crazy. One of the only three benefits of our extreme heat and drought that I can think of–besides fewer fleas and mosquitoes!–is that ragweed...
by Karen Nunley | Jun 24, 2019 | Central Texas Allergies
Wendy was a tortured woman. It was early December of ’08. Winter, the season she had come to dread in Austin, Texas. Since moving to Austin from Phoenix in 1987, she had become more and more sensitive to central Texas’s cedar pollen. She told me she had been getting...
by Karen Nunley | Apr 1, 2019 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment, Central Texas Allergies
A study from Sweden suggests that humming “may reduce the risk of sinusitis.” They found that humming lets people exhale significantly more air from their nasal passages than during other types of exhalations, an advantage that appears to lower frequent...
by Karen Nunley | Mar 4, 2019 | Acute & Chronic Pain Managment, Central Texas Allergies, General Acupuncture
Austin and central Texas are well known for an abundance of allergy producing pollens and mold spores. The most common reactions to airborne allergens include stuffy nose, red or irritated eyes, throat irritation, cough and possibly a low-grade fever. These occur...
