For millions of people in Western societies, anxiety has become a regular part of their lives. The feeling of being overwhelmed and having no control of your life can result in apprehension about the future, uneasiness, obsessive thoughts, sweating, and palpitations.
Acupuncture Can Help with Anxiety
A lot of acupuncturists have successfully treated patients who firmly believed they have exhausted every option after finding counseling … Continue reading
Also known as gastroesophageal reflux, gastric reflux, and heartburn acid reflux is a condition whereby the patient experiences a painful, burning, painful sensation that develops when gastric acid flows back from the abdomen into the esophagus and throat. Normally, the pain is felt in the esophagus behind the breastbone, and radiates to the jaw, neck, and throat.
Other acid reflux symptoms include:
-Swallowing difficulty (dysphagia)… Continue reading
The cessation of menstruation is known as menopause which often takes a certain amount of time to complete as the ovaries slowly lose their power to manufacture estrogen. The lowered amounts of estrogen in the body also reduce fertility which makes reproduction harder and harder to attain until the woman eventually has no chance of bearing children anymore. Usually a normal natural phase in a … Continue reading
For thousands of years, acupuncture has been used to help lower high blood pressure in humans. People develop high blood pressure when their blood begins to exert pressure against the blood vessel walls, especially the walls of the heart chambers, veins, and arteries. Over the course of time, this strong rush of blood begins to damage the walls of the blood vessels leading to arterial … Continue reading
ADD (attention-deficit disorder) and ADHD (attention-deficit-hyperactive disorder) are some of the most common childhood behavioral problems in the United States. Difficulty controlling one’s behavior and an inability to stay focused and concentrate are the main symptoms of ADD; on the other hand, hyperactivity is ADHD’s main characteristic symptom.
ADD & ADHD have three categories. They are:
The preponderance of inattentiveness – this is mainly an … Continue reading
As you care for your new baby, treat yourself with joyful care as a healthy you makes for a healthy baby, as well.
Acupuncture treatments for postpartum recovery are able to relieve a lot of the challenges that women encounter after giving birth. These include:
-Depression
-Persistent lochia
-Pain and healing of incisions brought abour by C-section surgery
-Hemorrhoids
-Fatigue
-Mastitis
-Milk production and breastfeeding … Continue reading
As the season and weather changes, we oftentimes are forced to experience symptoms that can only come from a sinus condition. Acupuncture is a very effective way of treating sinusitis. It helps relieve related symptoms such as sinus infections, sinus headaches, sinus congestion, and sinus pain.
Whether one is suffering from infectious sinusitis, allergic sinusitis, acute sinusitis, or chronic sinusitis, acupuncture can definitely help.
What … Continue reading
One use for acupuncture is for the treatment of acute bronchitis, a disease resulting from the inflammation of the air passages of the lungs. Bronchitis usually occurs shortly after a person contracts a respiratory infection. The symptoms often initially affect the throat, sinuses, and nose of the person, and then spread to the lungs resulting in wheezing, chest pain, fever, productive coughing, and fatigue. Individuals … Continue reading
For sufferers of the lung condition known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, for short, the good news is that getting acupuncture can make you breathe a little easier.
An umbrella term for chronic or long-term lung conditions including emphysema and chronic bronchitis, COPD is characterized by shortness of breath and chronic cough. Conventional therapies usually include bronchodilators and inhaled steroids to clear up … Continue reading
Long used to treat addictions in Western countries, acupuncture is an Oriental healing procedure that has been utilized in hospitals along with conventional Western modes of treatment such as methadone for heroin addictions. Acupuncture is also utilized by several addiction clinics to resolve the underlying causes and symptoms of addiction. This extremely effective form of Chinese medicine has worked for thousands of years for the … Continue reading