Acupuncture
Acupuncture has been a major part of primary healthcare in China for the last 5,000 years. It is used extensively for a variety of medical purposes ranging from the prevention and treatment of disease, to relieving pain. As in many oriental medicine practices, the emphasis of acupuncture is prevention. In traditional Chinese medicine, the highest form of acupuncture was given to enable you to live a long, healthy life.
Acupuncture uses thin needles to penetrate the skin on different meridian points to create a balance in the body’s energy flow or qi. The body is a balance of the yin (slow, passive, cold) and yang (excited, active, hot) energy. When the yin and yang are out of balance, energy blockages form in the body and lead to diseases, sickness, and other physical and mental complications.
Acupuncture Can Help
- Abdominal distention/flatulence
- Acute and chronic pain control
- Allergic sinusitis
- Anorexia
- Anxiety, fright, panic
- Arthritis/arthrosis
- Atypical chest pain (negative workup)
- Bursitis, tendinitis, carpal tunnel syndrome
- Certain functional gastrointestinal disorders (nausea and vomiting, esophageal spasm, hyperacidity, irritable bowel) *
- Cervical and lumbar spine syndromes
- Child Abuse
- Constipation, diarrhea
- Cough with contraindications for narcotics
- Drug detoxification
- Fibromyalgia
- Frozen shoulder
- Headache (migraine and tension-type), vertigo (Meniere disease), tinnitus
- Idiopathic palpitations, sinus tachycardia
- In fractures, assisting in pain control, edema, and enhancing healing process
- Morning sickness
- Muscle spasms, tremors, tics, contractures
- Persistent hiccups
- Phantom pain
- Osteoarthritis of the Knee
- Seventh nerve palsy
- Sprains and contusions
- Tinnitus
- Urinary incontinence, retention
- Weight Loss