Dr. Naika at POPSUGAR Playground x Samsung Soul Space

I’ve got some fun news friends!

This weekend, I’ll be providing my healing services at the POPSUGAR Playground Samsung Soul Space.

I’ll be focusing my holistic healing sessions on Naturopathic and Chinese Medicine therapies to optimize sleep hygiene and wellness. I’ll be serving up some Aromatherapy, Chinese cupping therapy to ease muscle tension, and jade stone facial massage to help ease your mind and decrease stress. We’ll also be chatting about diet, lifestyle, and herbal medicine tips to improve sleep. My goal is to provide you with easy and applicable tools that you can implement into your new and improved customized night-time routine. Looking forward to sharing the beauty of this medicine with this weekend’s attendees!

I've partnered with Wellness Official, an online marketplace that connects wellness practitioners and clients to make wellness accessible. Through Wellness Official, you can book mini sessions with me and some other incredible NY-based wellness practitioners to get your vibe right at the POPSUGAR Playground Samsung Soul Space!

Definitely head to popsugarplayground.com for more information! Stop by the Soul Space to power up, connect, and get your healing on alllll weekend long! SO EXCITED!

In health,

Dr. Naika

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Dr. Naika, the writer of this blog, has a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and a Masters of Science in Acupuncture as of June 2017. Please do not take the information presented on this blog, as medical advice, without consulting your certified health care practitioner. Knowledge is power and your health is your wealth!

Top 4 Herbal Tonics for Winter

Happy Winter! Here are my top 4 herbal tonics for winter, that will support your health and vitality throughout the season.

🌿Ashwagandha: Our adaptogen ally that will support our energy and mental/emotional wellness.
🌿Lemon balm: Our anti-viral that will support our immunity and digestion.
🌿Cinnamon: Our anti-oxidant source that will keep our blood sugar levels balanced.
🌿Ginger: Our plug for all the things because ginger does *ALL* the things. But namely to raise our yang energy and get that blood circulating.

There are so many other great herbs that I’ll have in rotation in my tea kettle. But these are a great start!

Wishing you a joyous, intentional, and abundant winter. Plant those seeds now so they may flourish in the spring!

In health,

Dr. Naika

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Dr. Naika, the writer of this blog, has a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and a Masters of Science in Acupuncture as of June 2017. Please do not take the information presented on this blog, as medical advice, without consulting your certified health care practitioner. Knowledge is power and your health is your wealth!

Integrative Medicine for Cancer Support

Integrative medicine offers so much in the realm of cancer care. Naturopathic medicine and Acupuncture both can be really effective at helping cancer patients establish good foundations for health and helping mitigate some of the effects of medication, chemotherapy, and surgery. Though the set of symptoms for every different type of cancer are as unique as the individual who has it, integrative medicine can help with some common symptoms of cancer and side of effects from conventional treatment. Common side effects include fatigue, nausea and poor appetite, sleep disturbance, stress, nutritional imbalances, and anxiety and depression, to name a few. When combined with conventional care, integrative medicine can help bring balance to your treatment regime. Integrative health-care providers such as myself are more than willing to work with your conventional providers to help provide the best care for you! In this post, I’ll provide a snapshot of some of the ways holistic medicine can help support cancer patients.

Clinical Chinese Nutrition: 5 Winter Foods to Incorporate in your diet

According to Chinese medicine, winter is the time to go inward, to replenish, to restore. The image of a bear in hibernation may come to mind, as may cozying up a warm fireplace, or eating a nice bowl of warm soup or a cup of hot tea. Intuitively, our bodies know what to do in the winter, when it is colder and darker than normal. We stay inside more, expend less energy in the outdoors, and spend more time in solitude. Winter is also a time when we are more susceptible to feelings of loneliness or depression, as the season pulls us deeper and deeper inwards.

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Chinese medicine encourages us to work with the seasons, in regards to what we eat, how we move, and what we do with our time. Diet is one one of the most important areas of intervention since we eat consistently throughout the day. Our food has the ability to nourish us body, mind, and soul. In this post, I’ll highlight some foods you could easily implement in your diet to help support your overall health and well-being. There will be a special focus on tonifying the kidneys, which are the source of your qi or essence, as well as the spleen, which is the most important organ for digestion according to Chinese Medicine.