Treatments Offered

Acupuncture

acupunctureAcupuncture is performed by inserting very thin, disposable, sterilized, stainless-steel filaments (as fine as a human hair) into specific points located near or on the surface of the skin. This 5,000 year old practice has has mapped more than 2,000 acupuncture points on the human body, which connect with 12 main and 8 secondary pathways called meridians. These meridians conduct energy, or Qi flow between the surface of the body and internal organs. Depending on your condition, acupuncture may be used alone or in conjunction with other traditional Chinese medicine. Most patients report a feeling of calm and often fall asleep during treatment. After the first session, most people feel less pain, increased mobility and very peaceful. Common side effects of on-going treatments include increased energy, improved clarity to skin, improved digestion and improved quality of sleep.

Chinese Herbal Medicine

herbal medicineChinese herbal medicine is a major aspect of traditional Chinese medicine, which focuses on restoring a balance of energy, body, and spirit to maintain health rather than treating a particular disease or medical condition. It is especially effective when combined with acupuncture. Chinese herbal medicine uses a variety of herbs in different combinations to restore balance and nourishment to the body. Some commonly used herbs are astragalus, ginkgo, ginseng, green tea, and eleuthero (also known as "Siberian ginseng"), but more than 3,200 herbs and 300 mineral and animal extracts are used in more than 400 different formulas in China. Herbal preparations are said to prevent and treat hormone disturbances, infections, breathing disorders, and a vast number of other ailments and diseases.

Chinese Nutritional Therapy

nutritional therapyChinese Nutritional Therapy utilizes the principles of Chinese medical theory and modern nutrition. Chinese Medicine recognizes that Food is medicinal therapy and evaluates individual foods by the way they affect the body. Food can either support healthy function in the body or add to its dysfunction. They have been studied and categorized by Chinese Medicine doctors over thousands of years. Some of these categories include certain tastes and thermal properties (or temperature). The unique combination of tastes and temperature gives each food specific therapeutic properties, Chinese nutritional therapy uses specific foods as natural supplements to daily food intake, and a "therapeutic menu" to help you feel better, help remedy disease, strengthen, rebuild and rebalance the body.

Homeopathy

homeopathyHomeopathy is an effective system of healing which assists the natural tendency of the body to heal itself. It recognises that symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and that it is the patient who needs treatment, not the disease. Homeopathic remedies come in tablets, liquid or injectible form.

Moxibustion

moxaMoxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine technique that involves the burning of mugwort, a small, spongy herb, to facilitate healing. Moxibustion has been used throughout Asia for thousands of years; in fact, the actual Chinese character for acupuncture, translated literally, means "acupuncture-moxibustion." The purpose of moxibustion, as with most forms of traditional Chinese medicine, is to strengthen the blood, stimulate the flow of qi, and maintain general health. Moxa treatment is very soothing.

Cupping

cuppingCupping is an ancient Chinese practice in which a cup (now made of glass) is applied to the skin and the pressure in the cup is reduced (by using change in heat or by suctioning out air), so that the skin and superficial muscle layer is drawn into and held in the cup. In some cases, the cup may be moved while the suction of skin is active, causing a regional pulling of the skin and muscle (the technique is called gliding cupping). Cupping is applied by acupuncturists to certain acupuncture points, as well as to regions of the body to promote and stimulate blood flow for therapeutic purposes.

Chinese Tui na

tui naTui na is a hands-on body treatment that uses Chinese taoist and martial art principles to bring the body to balance. The principles being balanced are the eight principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The practitioner may brush, knead, roll/press and rub the areas between each of the joints (known as the eight gates) to open the body's defensive (wei) chi and get the energy moving in both the meridians and the muscles. The practitioner can then use range of motion, traction, massage, with the stimulation of acupressure points and to treat both acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions, as well as many non-musculoskeletal conditions.

Auricular Acupuncture Detoxification

auricular acupunctureAcupuncture detoxification is a modality that assists recovery in many ways. Its biochemical action assists endorphin production for capacity to cope with stress and cravings. It assists the body’s natural detoxification and chemical production to relieve withdrawal, craving, and other post-acute withdrawal symptoms.

Reiki

reikiReiki is a form of spiritual healing using "universal life energy" channeled through the practitioner to the recipient. Reiki helps to harmonize body, mind and spirit and offers a path to higher consciousness when practiced regularly. During a treatment, you relax, fully clothed, on a massage table while the healer holds her hands on or above you. A treatment can last an hour or longer depending on the treatment required. In the western world many practitioners use the standard hand positions and commonly a full treatment is given covering all the important organs of the body. There is no pressure on the body making it ideal for treating all ages and conditions, sometimes hands are even held away from the body. The energy flows wherever it is required (spiritually guided) and can normally be felt as a warm sensation or tingling in the body. Receiving Reiki is a very relaxing and soothing experience!
Reiki can be used for many ailments like reducing stress, relieving pain, headaches, stomach upsets, back problems, asthma - respiratory problems, menstrual problems, sinus, anxiety and many more.