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You are designed to be self-healer, but pain and illness occur when your self-healing systems aren’t working at capacity. Acupuncture, herbal medicine, and oriental physical therapy are strategies of empowering your own self-healing systems to get back online and function optimally. I don’t just treat your problem, I treat you – all of you, body, mind, and spirit.
What does holistic medicine mean? Say you have ‘tennis elbow’… you play a lot of tennis. Sometimes an elbow is just an elbow, and we can treat it as such – the body can usually detect an injury and correct the problem, and a simple acupuncture treatment might help optimize the increased blood flow to the area. However, suppose that it is not healing within a normal time frame. Is the injury not getting enough fresh blood? Did the body send too much blood to the elbow, and old blood has stagnated around the injury? Is the injury actually somewhere else, referring pain to the elbow? Is an old emotional issue causing the healing systems to be bogged down? There are dozens of factors involved, and sometimes your self-healing mechanisms get confused. I would look at your whole self, body, mind, and spirit, to determine where the problem is. I would treat your whole self with acupuncture, herbal medicine, and oriental physical therapy, all the while keeping your symptom – your aching elbow – in mind.
Same goes for the mind and spirit. Maybe your complaint is depression and imsomnia. To me, those are symptoms, not diseases. Do you have have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep? Do you feel more depressed in the morning or evening? How is your digestion? Let me feel your pulses, look at your tongue. I will address your depression and poor sleep as well as address the underlying issue – the root as well as the branch.