Gentle Holistic Health Care

East Asian or Chinese Medicine has evolved from a folk medicine into an evidence-based holistic health care modality. Our approach is geared toward men and women and combines acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, gua sha, cupping, moxibustion, herbal medicine, nutrition, and lifestyle guidance. 

Our practice has a huge focus in women's health, and within that we address acute and chronic pain, your mental and physical response to stress, quality of sleep, menstrual cycles, fertility, pregnancy, hormone regulation, digestion, perimenopause, and more. We help men with tension, pain, injury, digestion, headaches, sleep, bladder and prostate issues, and more.

Proven Effective and practiced for over 5,000 years, Eastern medicine has an important place in modern health care. According to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, 51% of medical doctors understand the efficacy and value of acupuncture, and refer their patients to acupuncture more than any other alternative care. In the past 60 years, many scientific studies have explored how it works and why; see Modern Research for some examples. 

At your first visit we'll review your health history, discuss your goals, and review lab tests or diagnostic imaging you already have. We'll feel your wrist pulses and look at your tongue, and you will have acupuncture. You'll rest with needles in for about 30-45 minutes. We may recommend lab testing, or herbal/nutritional supplements to further support you. 

How does it work? Acupuncture needles are strategically placed along the body, and stimulate the central nervous system to release natural chemicals that alter hormonal output, pain response, and other biological processes, improving physical and emotional well-being. Studies using MRI demonstrate that acupuncture has a measurable effect on parts of the brain that control numerous functions in the body. It does something completely remarkable – the stimulation of these needles deactivates certain areas of the brain while increasing the body’s natural opioids and release of neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin. This process has a powerful effect depending on the focused application: decreasing inflammation, increasing blood flow, balancing hormones suppressing pain and calming an overactive nervous system (think stress, disruptive sleep, anxiety).