Pain isn’t just about where it hurts. Sleep, stress, and gut health can alter inflammation, nervous system activity, and pain processing. Learn how acupuncture helps regulate these systems for better recovery outcomes.
Natural Defenses: Supporting Immune Health with a Classic Chinese Herbal Formula
Some of you may be wondering how Chinese Medicine can help during this time. While so much is changing around us, it can be grounding to take a moment to see what hasn’t changed. There are still many simple but impactful ways we can help ourselves. In this post, we want to share some information about a popular herbal formula known as “Jade Windscreen,” which can be useful for enhancing our body’s natural immunological defenses.
Self-Care During COVID-19
For many of us, life has changed dramatically and our world looks and feels very different than it did just a few short weeks ago. As we try our best to flow with changing life rhythms, let’s remember the small things we can do to support our mental, emotional, and physical health. Here are four ways we can practice self-care in these challenging times.
Move Your Qi
When your qi functions smoothly—so does your emotional, mental, and physical activity. Move your qi for optimum health!
Stretch - Incorporate a morning stretch into your routine. According to Oriental medicine, the liver meridian stores blood during periods of rest and then releases it to the tendons in times of activity, helping to maintain tendon health and flexibility.
Relief from Irritability and Moodiness
Everyone suffers from irritability and moodiness from time to time, but if you find that a short temper and frustration are becoming a constant issue for you, then acupuncture may be able to help.
Often irritability and moodiness are the consequence of chronic stress in your life. Over time these emotions can progress into more serious emotional conditions such as anxiety and depression as well as other health conditions such as digestive problems, trouble sleeping and the tendency to get sick more frequently.
Meta Study: Acupuncture Provides Relief from Anxiety
Some anxiety is a healthy response to daily activity or new situations however random or excessive anxiety and can be debilitating. General anxiety, panic, social anxiety, separation anxiety and other phobias can present as mild worrying to more physical responses such as nausea, insomnia, shortness of breath and panic attacks. Read more
Oriental Medicine Provides Mental Health Support
The start of the new year is a time of looking forward to the future, setting goals and putting in motion the steps necessary to achieve them. Emotional wellness enhances our ability to move forward effectively and includes recognizing and accepting our emotions, thinking clearly, and making decisions. Acupuncture and Oriental medicine nurtures emotional wellness and provides support for mental health disorders.