Our Treatments

We offer a broad-spectrum solution to health care. Our clinic provides traditional herbal medicine, and acupuncture. For a list of the conditions we can treat effectively please scroll down to the middle of the page.

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Chinese Herbal Medicine is the oldest and most complex medical system in the world. By combining several herbs (4-15) into a formula we are able to cancel out any side effects of herb if it were used solely on it own. These formulas are available in pill, gel cap, powder, or tincture form. By combining it with acupuncture herbal medicine can treat almost any symptoms a patient may have. 

 

 

Acupuncture

 

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What is acupuncture?

Acupuncture is an effective healing system that has cared for millions of people for centuries. Doctors of Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture use this non-invasive system to diagnose and successfully treat countless health conditions.

Very fine sterile needles are inserted into acupoints to help the body regain balance and homeostasis. These acupoints are located on channels or meridians that traverse the whole body. Each meridian is connected to an organ and is responsible for the function and health of that organ.

What is Qi?

The meridians are full of an energy called Qi (pronounced chee), which circulates along the meridians and throughout the whole body in a 24-hour period. This flowing Qi is like a river, which brings life and health to all it comes in contact with: organs, cells, glands, tissues, and the muscles in the body.

What causes ill health?

When this river of Qi becomes blocked or disturbed it will eventually, if not immediately, cause you illness. This blockage can be caused by physical and emotional trauma, stress, lack of exercise, over-exertion, seasonal changes, poor diet, or accidents. These are among the many things that can influence the quality, quantity, and balance of Qi.

What will the acupuncturist do?

During the initial exam a full health history will be taken. Many questions are asked regarding health, symptoms and lifestyle. Pulse and tongue diagnosis will be performed; an electronic reading of the balance of Qi within each meridian will be assessed, and an appropriate physical exam will be conducted.

This information is organized into a well-structured treatment plan based on more than 4,000 years of Chinese Medical Theory. This will enable us to assemble a Traditional Chinese Medical pattern, which explains the diagnosis and the course of treatment.

Once the imbalance is detected, acupuncture will be performed. This safe and painless insertion of the needles can unblock the obstruction, and balance Qi where it has become unbalanced. Once this is done, Qi can freely circulate throughout the body providing adequate nourishment to cells, organs, glands, tissues and muscles. This eliminates pain, restores balance and harmony along with the body’s natural ability to heal itself, ultimately leading to optimal health and well-being.

Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine is a safe, effective and drug-free therapy that can help address a wide variety of common ailments and problems.

 

What can acupuncture treat? 

Acupuncture has analgesic, relaxing, toning, balancing, and restorative effects on the body. Some conditions that are successfully treated include:

  • Achilles tendon pain
  • Ankle sprain
  • Anxiety, minor
  • Arthritis
  • Asthma
  • Breech fetal positioning
  • Bursitis
  • Buttocks, tailbone and groin pain
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Cosmetic acupuncture
  • CPP (Chronic Pelvic Pain)
  • Cramp in the calf
  • Depression, minor
  • Discomforts of pregnancy (after the fourth month)
  • Dizziness
  • Dry or tired eyes
  • Earache and tinnitus
  • External hemorrhoids
  • Facial palsy
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Frozen shoulder
  • Headaches and migraines
  • IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
  • Infertility (sterility)
  • Insomnia
  • Insufficient milk production
  • Intercostal neuralgia
  • Knee pain
  • Labor induction and easier delivery
  • Mastitis
  • Menopause
  • Muscle strain, tension
  • Myofascial pain
  • Neck and shoulder pain
  • Nervousness
  • Neuralgia
  • Normalizing bowel function (including diarrhea and constipation)
  • Numbness in hands
  • Occipital neuralgia
  • Other menstrual irregularities
  • Pelade (patchy hair loss)
  • Plantar fasciitis (foot pain)
  • PMS (Pre-Menstrual Syndrome) including menstrual cramps
  • Poor circulation (cold hands and feet)
  • Post-operative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting
  • Post-operative dental pain
  • Pre-operative dental pain management
  • Rehabilitation from injury and surgery
  • Rehabilitation from stroke
  • Rib and back pain
  • Sciatica
  • Sinusitis and congestion
  • Stress
  • Stress fracture
  • Stress-related digestive disorders (including stomach ulcer)
  • Tendonitis
  • Tennis elbow and golfer's elbow
  • TMJ (Jaw pain)
  • Toothache
  • TOS (Thoracic Outlet Syndrome)
  • Whiplash injury

The World Health Organization (WHO) list of diseases that respond to acupuncture

The WHO Seminar made the following provisional list of diseases that may be helped with acupuncture treatment. 

Over 50 commonly encountered clinical disorders that lend themselves to acupuncture treatment include:

  • NOSE AND THROAT DISORDERS such as acute sinusitis, acute rhinitis, the common cold and acute tonsillitis.
  • RESPIRATORY DISORDERS such as acute bronchitis and bronchial asthma (especially in children and in patients without complicating diseases).
  • EYE DISORDERS such as acute conjunctivitis, central retinitis, myopia (in children) and cataracts (without complications).
  • MOUTH DISORDERS such as toothache, post-extraction pain, gingivitis and acute or chronic pharyngitis.
  • GASTRO-INTESTINAL DISORDERS such as spasms of the esophagus and cardia, hiccough, gastroptosis, acute and chronic gastritis, gastric hyperacidity, chronic duodenal ulcer (pain relief), acute duodenal ulcer (without complications), acute and chronic colitis, acute bacillary dysentery, constipation, diarrhea and paralytic ileus.
  • NEUROLOGICAL AND MUSCULO-SKELETAL DISORDERS such as headache, migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, facial palsy (within 3-6 months of onset), pareses following stroke, peripheral neuropathies, sequelae of poliomyelitis (within 6 months of onset), Ménière's disease, neurogenic bladder dysfunction, nocturnal enuresis, intercostal neuralgia, cervicobrachial syndrome, "frozen shoulder", "tennis elbow", sciatica, low back pain, osteoarthritis and dizziness.
  • CIRCULATORY DISORDERS such as hypertension, angina pectoris, arteriosclerosis and anemia.
  • UROGENITAL DISORDERS such as stress incontinence, urinary tract infections and sexual dysfunction.
  • GYNECOLOGICAL DISORDERS such as irregular, heavy or painful menstruation, infertility in women and men, and premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
  • EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS including depression and anxiety.
  • ADDICTIONS such as alcohol, nicotine and drugs.