Chinese Medicine is based in the concept of balancing energy. Balanced energy creates health. Similar to mitochondria receiving information to transmit instructions and to create energy for cell health, maintenance of the body’s energy flow and balance promotes healthy communication within the body. If your health is a garden, it must be maintained on several levels (physical, mental and spiritual) as well as tended to daily. At the Center, we use several different methods.

DIET: Not to be confused with “going on a diet”, this is what we ingest on a daily basis. It is created over time. We will examine how food creates energy, not simply supply nutrients. We are what we eat. Patterns and symptoms can be corrected by food choices.

  

HERBAL REMEDIES : Often herbal remedies are used to correct energetic imbalances or augment deficiency. Acupuncture works with your existing energy. Herbal remedies, diet and lifestyle help maintain or augment the healthy balance of energy.

LIFESTYLE: How do you work, play and rest? For Example: How do you feed your mind and spirit? Do you burn the candle at both ends? Do you internalize stress? Stress occurs daily and is not going away! How do you deal with its presence in your life? Do you include adding a rhythmic exercise to your routine (i.e. swimming, rollerblading, dancing)? Doing yoga, taking time to reflect and meditate, or making room for a hobby can change the effects of stress. Other Therapeutic Modalities include:
• Tui na – medical massage
• Cupping – the use of glass cups to move blocked or stagnant energy
• Gua sha – A gentle scraping of oiled skin to break up stagnant energy and bring blood flow to the muscle
 
ACUPUNCTURE: After evaluation of your chief complaint, signs and symptoms, we find acupuncture points along the appropriate meridians (channels of energy flow) related to involved organ systems. Fine, sterile, needles are then inserted. The flow of energy is redirected to correct any imbalance. After twenty to thirty minutes the needles are removed.
 

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