Acupuncture and herbal medicine at The Sanctuary.
For 5,000 years, traditional chinese medicine has successfully made use of acupuncture and herbs to rebalance the body’s energy to improve health and promote long life. Acupuncture is a safe, painless and effective way to treat a wide variety of conditions.
What can acupuncture treat?
Here is a brief alphabetical list from the World Health Organization:
- Addiction (drug, alcohol, smoking)
- Anxiety
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Chronic Fatigue
- Colitis
- Common Cold
- Constipation
- Dental Pain
- Depression
- Diarrhea
- Digestive Trouble
- Dizziness
- Dysentery
- Emotional Problems
- Eye Problems
- Facial Palsy/Tics
- Fatigue
- Fertility Problems
- Fibromyalgia
- Gingivitis Headache
- Hiccough
- Incontinence
- Indigestion
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Low Back Pain
- Menopause
- Menstrual Irregularities
- Migraine
- Morning Sickness
- Nausea
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain
- PMS
- Pneumonia
- Repetitive Stress Injuries
- Reproductive Problems
- Rhinitis
- Sciatica
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Shoulder Pain
- Sinusitis
- Sleep Disturbances
- Sore Throat
- Stress
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Vomiting,
- and more...
How will the treatment procede?
During your initial exam, a full health history will be taken with questions regarding your health, lifestyle and any other information necessary for diagnosis. Your acupuncturist will check your pulses, look at your tongue, and conduct the appropriate physical exam. This information is then organized, according to the theories and philosophies of Chinese medicine, in order to diagnose your specific concerns and any underlying factors that may affect your health. After the interview process, you may receive an acupuncture treatment. You may also be prescribed herbal medicine. Adjunct oriental medicine treatments may be administered, such as cupping, tui na (massage), and others.
What does an acupuncture treatment feel like?
The needle are thin as a cat's whisker. During treatment, you may feel energized or a deep sense of relaxation and well being. Where the acupuncture needle has been inserted, you may feel a vague numbness, heaviness, tingling, or dull ache. Sometimes people will experience the sensation of energy spreading from the needle. This is called the "Qi" sensation. All of these reactions are a good sign that the treatment is working.
