About Acupuncture

What Does Acupuncture Treat?

Acupuncture and Chinese medicine can successfully treat a wide range of conditions.  We aim to optimize wellness and practice truly preventive healthcare.  Treatment can help in the management of chronic conditions and often mitigate the need for medication and surgery.

Here is a partial list of conditions which Acupuncture can treat:

• Mental / Emotional conditions such as anxiety and depression.

• Insomnia

• Fatigue

• Acute and Chronic Pain

Fibromyalgia

• Carpal Tunnel

• Sciatica

• Back and Neck Pain

• Digestive and Gastro-Intestianl Issues

• Respiratory conditions, Asthma

• Fertility

Menstrual cramps

Gynecological Issues

• Circulatory issues

• Headaches, Migraines

• TMJ

• Immune disorders

Individualized acupuncture Treatments

During your initial session, we will discuss your goals for treatment and the symptoms that trouble you. Traditional diagnosis then follows, including assessment of the pulse and tongue. The combination of acupuncture points and treatment techniques used are determined by the needs of the particular patient ar that time. Number and frequency of treatments needed varies from person to person.

Does Acupuncture Hurt?

Most experience no discomfort. You may feel a radiating or tingling sensation known as da-qi upon insertion of a needle.  Acupuncture needles are extremely fine, not resembling the hypodermic needles used to draw blood. Though some new patients arrive nervous, their concerns disappear when they experience their first treamtent. Needles are sterile and single-use.

Wellness through proper diet and Lifestyle

Proper lifestyle of body, mind and spirit is essential for healing and wellbeing. Each of us is a unique expression of nature. We have a purpose to fulfill and relationships to create and cultivate. The Chinese character for life denotes a rice pot, the rice cooking inside and the lid moving up and down. When, whether in body, mind or spirt, we lose attunement with our true nature, symptoms arise. Dis-ease begins when the rice pot lid gets stuck somewhere and is not released.

Symptoms can be interpreted as a call to realign with life. Treatment can help to restore a person to their natural state of happiness and well-being. Health is the result of a balanced expression of oneself. It is the capacity for autonomous action. It is the capacity to navigate life mindfully, without harming oneself or others.

Wellness is about the day to day. Treatment done in the context of proper lifestyle creates and maintains a sense of harmony. Proper lifestyle means ahmisa (non-harming) on all levels. For the body it appears as proper breathing, movement and a simple cleansing diet. For the mind it is elimination of negative thoughts and concentration on positive ones. For the spirit, attunement to inner peace and joy.