Acupuncture
Acupuncture, a key component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) involves the insertion of very thin needles through your skin at specific points on your body.
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Acupuncture promotes blood flow. This is significant because everything the body needs to heal is in the blood, including oxygen, nutrients we absorb from food, immune substances, hormones, analgesics (painkillers), and anti-inflammatories. Restoring proper blood flow is vital to promoting and maintaining health.
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Acupuncture activates and enhances the body's built-in healing mechanisms. Acupuncture stimulates the central nervous system to adjust hormone secretion to balance itself which enhances the body’s natural healing abilities through complex neurochemical pathways that affect the immune system, the endocrine system, the nervous system and the inflammatory process.
Herbal Supplement
Herbal supplements are products derived from plants and/or their oils, roots, seeds, berries or flowers. Herbal supplements have been used for many centuries for their healing properties.
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Customized prescription. Our herbal formulas are based on each individual’s diagnosis and treatment plan. Usually, a customized prescription will contain several different single herbs.
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Granule form. Most of our herbal supplements are in granules that can be dissolved in warm water. It is more convenient to take than raw herbs and more effective than pills.
Lifestyle Alignment
Many chronic diseases are the result of unhealthy habits. Lifestyle alignment helps you spot trigger factors of your condition and provide home care advice so that you can decrease clinic visits by taking care of yourself at home.
A comprehensive lifestyle alignment session may include the following parts as needed:
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Dietary optimization. You are what you eat. Eating isn't just about satisfying hunger. Good nutrition is linked to a healthy life. We may not feel it, but we’re constantly repairing, healing, and rebuilding our bodies. Food can be the most natural resource for materials. Dietary consultation helps you recognize the right food according to your body's needs.
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Daily Routine adjustment. Routines help us to create positive daily habits that promote self-care. We can organize our time around things that we deem important to maintain happiness and feelings of fulfillment.
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Exercise coaching. Different exercises carry different outcomes and fit different people. Let exercise be your health booster. We may suggest you change the frequency, intensity, certain time of the day, mode of motion of your exercise.
Scraping (GuaSha)
During your scraping therapy, your physician will use a flake tool to gently “scrape” in one direction over any muscle that is experiencing problems. ​
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Scraping can significantly improve the blood perfusion volume and increase the temperature in the scraping area, promoting local blood circulation and energy metabolism.
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Applied on muscles experiencing problems, scraping can reduce soft tissue restrictions and muscle restrictions. Applied on the back, with different maneuvers, it can either boost the immune system or decrease inflammation
Facial Rejevenation
Facial Rejuvenation is a non-surgical treatment that involves using acupuncture, scraping, tuina to improve skin and fight the aging process. It is a gentle, effective and safe way to revitalize the look and feel of your skin without risk or downtime.
Facial Rejuvenation helps with:
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Diminish expression lines by slowing the aging process from within
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Improve muscle tone, increase collagen and elastin production
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Increase Circulation to the face and decrease inflammation
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Improve skin texture and color by moisturizing the skin and tighten pores
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Reduce appearance of acne scars and age spots
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Erase fine lines, deeper wrinkles diminished
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Lift sagging eye lids, reduce bags/circles
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Firm jowls and minimize double chin
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Eliminate puffiness by improving metabolism and eliminating excess fluids
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Improve hormonal balance, benefits acne
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Increase circulation of blood and lymph to the face and improves facial color
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Reduce stress evident in the face
Ear Seeds
Ear seeds are a safe and effective tool for stimulating acupressure points in your ear. The seeds of Vaccaria are stuck to chosen points to improve the body's flow of energy, balance hormones, and regulate your nervous system.
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During the treatment, the practitioner will use a probe to find sensitive points on your ear and ear seeds will be stuck to functional points upon the patient's condition.
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After the treatment, patient will have the ear seeds on for 3-5 days with consistent stimulation to help with various health conditions.
Cupping
Cupping therapy is one of the treatment modalities of Traditional Chinese Medicine which suction is applied to a special cup and then placed on the problematic areas. The skin and muscles are then pulled into the suction.
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draw over-accumulated metabolite to the surface. Cupping allows the body to remove that metabolite and stimulate local circulation for healing.
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enhance circulation and relieve tightness of the muscle. The skin and muscle are stimulated by being pulled into the suction allowing energy and blood to circulate.
Bruising, from dark purple to bright red, is common and the color, texture, location of the bruising reveals how much tension or stagnation has been built upon those areas.
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Over time with consistent treatment, there will be an increase in local blood flow and a decrease in muscle recovery time. That is why many athletes seek cupping treatments to help keep up and improve their performance.
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Cupping is often used in conjunction with acupuncture and is beneficial to patients who has muscle aches ranging from sitting at a computer desk to running marathons.
Infrared Therapy
Infrared therapy uses certain wavelengths of light that can penetrate below the skin layers, proving a much greater depth which is able to provide a vast range of health benefits without damaging the skin. It allows people to harness the benefits of the sun without being exposed to harmful ultraviolet rays.
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Increase local blood flow. The increase in the blood flow to the different parts of the body makes it possible for oxygen and nutrients to reach the cells, enabling them to function properly and effectively. Hence, this therapy stimulates the regeneration and repair of injured tissues, reducing pain and inflammation.
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Infusing light/heat energy. Absorbed by photoreceptors in cells, the light energy kickstarts a series of metabolic events, triggering several natural processes of the body on a cellular level.
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Used in conjunction with acupuncture. Applied to chosen points, infrared light can enhance the healing power of acupuncture. Infrared light therapy is applied in the treatment of various health conditions, including back pain, arthritis, bursitis, blunt trauma, muscle strain, carpal tunnel syndrome, neck pain, back pain, diabetic neuropathy, rheumatoid arthritis, temporomandibular joint pain (TMJ), tendonitis, wounds, sciatica, and surgical incisions.
Electroacupuncture
Electroacupuncture is a modified form that involves two needles to stimulate specific points. A very mild electric current passing between the needles generates stronger stimulation. Electroacupuncture is intended to help increase the healing effects of standard acupuncture.
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Electroacupuncture is especially effective in helping with neuropathy and muscle tightness.
Tuina
Tui na (pronounced "twee naw") , which literally means "pinch and pull", is a traditional hands-on manipulation treatment method guided by TCM theory.
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Tui na is not generally used for pleasure and relaxation, but rather as a treatment to address specific patterns of disharmony. Through manual manipulations, tui na is used widely to treat various diseases, including not only musculoskeletal disorders but also diseases of internal organs.
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Tuina is often used in combination with acupuncture.
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