Traditional Chinese Acupuncture
How can acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine help me?
The benefits of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine are numerous and varied. Beyond helping to resolve the symptoms that bring them to the clinic, many patients report a host of happy “side effects”: improved sleep, more balanced emotions, increased energy, better focus and a more optimistic outlook. Sometimes a course of acupuncture treatments helps patients find the courage to make a change in their lives they’ve been wanting to make for a while; often they notice their relationships improving and their attitude about their work clarifying.
Why does this happen? It’s because a fundamental principle of traditional Chinese medicine is to balance the whole person. Even if you’ve just come in for, say, low-back pain, your initial intake will be a detailed and in-depth conversation in which you and Lorelle will discuss everything from your favorite foods to your feelings about your work to your reactions to different kinds of weather. We will bring all of this information together in a comprehensive diagnosis from a traditional Chinese medical perspective. The low-back pain will be treated, but it will be considered just one facet of your diagnosed constitutional imbalance. While your pain is addressed, other aspects of your system will inevitably come into balance, too.
If you’re considering acupuncture, herbs, and traditional Chinese medicine for a specific health issue, here is a partial, alphabetized list of symptoms and syndromes that acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine can help to address:
| abdominal pain | infertility |
| acne | jaw pain |
| addiction | joint pain |
| allergies | kidney dysfunction |
| AIDS-related conditions | knee pain |
| alcoholism | lactation insufficiency |
| anxiety | leukopenia |
| arthritis | low back pain |
| asthma | manic depressive disorder |
| avascular necrosis (AVN) | morning sickness |
| back pain | Ménière’s disease |
| Bell’s palsy | menstrual cramps |
| biliary colic | methadone dependency |
| benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) | nausea |
| bronchitis | neck pain |
| cancer pain | neuralgia |
| causalgia | neuropathy |
| chemotherapy side effects | obesity |
| cocaine dependency | opiate dependency |
| colitis | osteoarthritis |
| complex regional pain syndrome | pain medication dependency |
| coronary artery disease | pancreatitis |
| cholecystitis | panic disorder |
| chronic cough | pertussis |
| chronic pain | polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) |
| common cold | post-herpetic neuralgia |
| constipation | post-stroke recovery |
| Crohn’s disease | post-surgery healing |
| degenerative disk disease | premenstrual syndrome |
| depression | prostatitis |
| diabetes mellitus | psoriasis |
| diabetic neuropathy | radiation side effects |
| diarrhea | Raynaud’s phenomenon |
| dysentery | reflex sympathetic dystrophy |
| earache | renal colic |
| eczema | rheumatoid arthritis |
| elbow pain | temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ) |
| erectile dysfunction | tinnitus |
| facial pain | tobacco dependency |
| facial spasms | tonsillitis |
| fibromyalgia | schizophrenia |
| gastritis | sciatica |
| glaucoma | shoulder pain |
| gout | Sjögren’s syndrome |
| headache | sexual dysfunction |
| hepatitis | sore throat |
| herpes zoster | Tourette’s syndrome |
| high blood pressure | ulcerative colitis |
| HIV-related conditions | ulcers |
| hyperlipidemia | urethritis |
| hypertension | urinary retention |
| hyperthyroidism | urinary tract infection |
| hypotension | vertigo |
| hypothyroidism | vomiting |
| insomnia | whooping cough |
—and more. If you don’t see the issue you’d like to address in this list, please get in touch with the Saxena Clinic to find out if acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine can help.