7 Things You Didn't Know Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine Can Do for You!
by Melanie Misenheimer, LAc
1) Get back on your feet faster when you have a cold or flu virus
It's true! Herbs have anti-bacterial, anti-viral and even anti-fungal properties, and can get you back on your feet in no time! They can even be taken to nip a cold or flu in the bud before it has a chance to get started with those nasty, full blown cold & flu symptoms.
2) Enhance your mood when you are feeling depressed or sluggish
By clearing toxicity & stagnation and stimulating the vital flow of Qi, Acupuncture & herbal formulas can balance emotions and help you to feel more energized.
3) Calm anxiety, nervousness, worries, and stress
The problem with anxiety is that it tends to feed into more anxiety. In Chinese medicine, the pattern is equated to a wind that feeds a fire that creates wind that feeds the fire...and on and on. Through Acupuncture and/or herbal treatment, this pattern can be cleared, allowing you to reset and feel more like yourself again.
4) Help acute injuries heal faster
By clearing inflammation, swelling and bruising, Acupuncture plus external herbal applications can bring about faster healing and even work to minimize lasting affects of significant injuries.
5) When you feel indigestion or an upset stomach, Chinese medicine can help!
Have you ever had a sleepless night after eating something that didn't agree with you? Do you ever experience gas, bloating, or an upset stomach? By stimulating healthy digestion and clearing toxicity & stagnation, Acupuncture and/or Chinese herbal treatments can help clear away these symptoms so you can get back to your day.
6) Clear away chronic or weird symptoms
Have you been told you will have a symptom or condition for the rest of your life? Or have your symptoms been ignored or left untreated because they are too weird or unusual? Often times, chronic or seemingly weird symptoms that make no sense from our Western medical ways of thinking, can be helped through Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. In Chinese medicine, we see symptoms as expressions of a greater pathological pattern that is occurring. Through this way of thinking, suddenly, those strange symptoms make sense! More importantly, they can be addressed to help get you feeling better again.
7) Relieve cramping and other menstrual symptoms
Even the most severe menstrual cramping symptoms can be helped through Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine treatments. Chinese medicine theory has a unique understanding of women's health and the healthy flow of Qi & blood. Cramping pain is typically a combination of cold & damp in the uterus and/or ovaries causing Qi & blood stagnation and varying levels of pain, depending on the severity of the condition. Treatments clear the stagnation and work by balancing the flow of Qi & blood, so you can experience decreasing levels of cramping pain.
1) Get back on your feet faster when you have a cold or flu virus
It's true! Herbs have anti-bacterial, anti-viral and even anti-fungal properties, and can get you back on your feet in no time! They can even be taken to nip a cold or flu in the bud before it has a chance to get started with those nasty, full blown cold & flu symptoms.
2) Enhance your mood when you are feeling depressed or sluggish
By clearing toxicity & stagnation and stimulating the vital flow of Qi, Acupuncture & herbal formulas can balance emotions and help you to feel more energized.
3) Calm anxiety, nervousness, worries, and stress
The problem with anxiety is that it tends to feed into more anxiety. In Chinese medicine, the pattern is equated to a wind that feeds a fire that creates wind that feeds the fire...and on and on. Through Acupuncture and/or herbal treatment, this pattern can be cleared, allowing you to reset and feel more like yourself again.
4) Help acute injuries heal faster
By clearing inflammation, swelling and bruising, Acupuncture plus external herbal applications can bring about faster healing and even work to minimize lasting affects of significant injuries.
5) When you feel indigestion or an upset stomach, Chinese medicine can help!
Have you ever had a sleepless night after eating something that didn't agree with you? Do you ever experience gas, bloating, or an upset stomach? By stimulating healthy digestion and clearing toxicity & stagnation, Acupuncture and/or Chinese herbal treatments can help clear away these symptoms so you can get back to your day.
6) Clear away chronic or weird symptoms
Have you been told you will have a symptom or condition for the rest of your life? Or have your symptoms been ignored or left untreated because they are too weird or unusual? Often times, chronic or seemingly weird symptoms that make no sense from our Western medical ways of thinking, can be helped through Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. In Chinese medicine, we see symptoms as expressions of a greater pathological pattern that is occurring. Through this way of thinking, suddenly, those strange symptoms make sense! More importantly, they can be addressed to help get you feeling better again.
7) Relieve cramping and other menstrual symptoms
Even the most severe menstrual cramping symptoms can be helped through Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine treatments. Chinese medicine theory has a unique understanding of women's health and the healthy flow of Qi & blood. Cramping pain is typically a combination of cold & damp in the uterus and/or ovaries causing Qi & blood stagnation and varying levels of pain, depending on the severity of the condition. Treatments clear the stagnation and work by balancing the flow of Qi & blood, so you can experience decreasing levels of cramping pain.