Headaches: How Chinese Medicine Diagnoses Them

acupuncture for headaches

  If you’ve got a bad headache that keeps coming back, chances are you’re on the prowl for a solution that will keep it away for good. Though pain medications can temporarily ease pain, they do not treat the underlying problem. Acupuncture offers a mode of treatment that is tailored to your…

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Regulating Your Menstrual Cycle with Acupuncture

dealing with menstrual cycle issues

Irregular, painful, short, long, heavy: if any of these words are ones you would use to describe your menstrual cycle, then a Chinese Medicine practitioner may be able to help. Most women think that a period is something that has to be ‘suffered’ through but, contrary to popular belief, a healthy menstrual…

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Chronic Cough Following a Cold or Flu

chronic cough feeling sick

  Cold and flu season often hits hard. It’s easy to fall into the habit of treating symptoms as they arise instead of working on prevention, or taking measures to rebuild our immune system after a fight with the cold or the flu. Traditional Chinese Medicine offers an approach that helps to…

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Post-Holidays Food Stagnation and How TCM / Acupuncture Can Help You Feel Better

Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture for post-holiday food stagnation

During the holiday season, many of us overeat, get bloated, constipated, and are inundated with temptations from those cookies at work to that eggnog at the Christmas party. Luckily, acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine herbal therapy can increase blood circulation and encourage regular bowel movements. Read on if your New Year’s resolution…

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Improving Circulation with Acupuncture

Acupuncture can help improve your blood circulation

It’s not fun to feel chronically stressed and have cold hands, feet, fingers and toes. If you experience this, you might have poor blood circulation. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, we feel pain when our blood vessels constrict, causing numbness, tingling, and skin problems. Acupuncture can help improve circulation and aid your…

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Can Acupuncture Improve Sports Performance?

acupuncture for sports performance

Athletes and those with active lifestyles can achieve better performance and heal sports injuries more effectively with the help of acupuncture. If you are training or trying to meet fitness goals and want to boost your endurance, then acupuncture techniques can help you maintain a strong body by improving digestion and sleep.…

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