What is Oriental Medicine?
Are you plagued with aches, pains, exhaustion, stress and depression? Oriental Medicine could have answers to many of your problems.
Oriental Medicine has typically been observed as acupuncture. It is so much more. These techniques are thousands of years old, with a great deal of research documenting their efficacy and is accepted by the leading national and world health organizations. It is used in many of the leading hospitals and VA hospitals throughout the nation. Oriental Medicine is extremely safe yielding feelings of relaxation and well-being. There is very little danger of any infection or negative side effects.
Oriental Medicine can treat symptoms of the following conditions and more:
Anxiety/Depression/Stress, Arthritis, Asthma, Bronchitis, Carpal Tunnel, Digestive Disorders, Facial Palsy, Fatigue, Fertility, Fibromyalgia, Headache, Incontinence, Irritable Bowel, Joint and Body Pain, Menopause, Menstrual Irregularities, Morning Sickness, Nausea/Vomiting, Non-healing Wounds, PMS, Pneumonia, Seizure Disorders, Sinusitis, Sleep Disturbances, Sore Throat, Tremors, Trigeminal Neuralgia and UTI.
A nationally board certified Doctor of Oriental Medicine will be extensively trained for years and certified in Acupuncture, Herbs, Formulas, Moxibustion, Cupping, Tui Na, Gua Sha and many other techniques. It is critical that your practitioner or doctor has had sufficient training to use these techniques adequately. The (NCCAOM) National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is the regulating board for Acupuncture and herbal medicine. Make sure your practitioner is certified through this board for your safety. The accredited education required to be board certified with herbs, acupuncture, etc., is regulated and extensive.
The many aspects of how Oriental Medicine theory works is very different from western medicine. The evaluation of a patient can be assessed in part by questioning, observing, and palpating the body. We observe through presentations of Yin, Yang, Hot, Cold, Excess, Deficient, Interior and Exterior to compile a diagnosis. Once diagnosis is concluded we then formulate a treatment strategy.
We are triggering the body to build up its strength. I liken it to working out. After treatments one should achieve a positive change.
Tips for Chinese Medicine Diagnostic cold conditions: Use warming herbs and foods like Black Pepper, Butter, Cardamom, Cayenne, Cherry, Chestnut, Chicken, Dill Seed, Fennel Seed, Garlic, Ginger, Goats Milk, Kohlrabi, Leek, Mutton, Nutmeg, Onion, Peach, Rosemary, Scallion, Shrimp, Squash, Trout, Vinegar and Walnut.
High Point Acupuncture
Rhonda J. Lewis D.O.M. L.Ac. M.S.O.M.
Nationally Board Certified