Chinese Medicine for Better Health

If you have unresolved health problems, consider acupuncture.           

      Over 5000 years, acupuncturists have treated billions of chinese people, including mighty chinese emperors, for a wide variety of symptoms, conditions, injuries, and diseases. The ancient Chinese healing art is deeply connected to Yoga as these two energetic systems are founded on the belief that one's good health depends on the delicate balance and the normal flow and distribution of qi (chi - meaning "energy" or "life force") throughout our body. Disturbance or blockage of the flow of qi along invisible energy circuits or meridians (channels) results in illness or pain. By inserting a few hair-thin solid disposable needles into acupoints at various sites of the body, an acupuncturist seeks to restore the balance and remove the blockage, therefore restoring health.

      At The Center of Yoga and Acupuncture, the following health challenges have been successfully treated with either acupuncture, herbs, cupping and other modalities of Traditional Chinese Medicine:

• Addictions or the breaking of habit patterns
• Allergies - seasonal including hay fever or food intolerance
• Arthritis
• Constipation
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Gastro-Esophageal Reflex Disease (GERD)
• Depression
• Frequent cold and flu
• Insomnia
• Infertility, male or female*
• Fatigue (chronic)
• Pain management
• PMS
• Menopause
• Prostrate enlargement or inflammation
• Sexual disfunction

*A special note on Traditional Chinese Medicine and the treatment of infertility:

      Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) provides a low cost, noninvasive treatment and compliment to modern Western medicine in the treatment of female infertility. Because TCM focuses on rebalancing individuals and not just treating diseases, its treatments are tailor-made and have low potential for side effects. In addition, they tend to promote general health and well being to the entire person. This being the case, it makes sense to first attempt to correct female infertility through TCM and then, if that fails, to subsequently employ the more forceful but also more risky treatment of modern Western medicine. It is also possible to use the high tech diagnostics tests of modern Western medicine in conjunction with the holistic, benign but nonetheless effective therapies of TCM.