What are Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture?

Health is a state of being in balance in body, mind and spirit.  Illness is seen as an imbalance between internal influences such as diet, exercise, rest, and emotions and external factors such as weather, trauma, microbes, or poisons.  The goal of Chinese medicine is simply to restore balance or homeostasis.

Acupuncture is one main part of Chinese Medicine.  There are pathways, or channels, throughout the body that are created by energy that permeate the entire body.  Acupuncture is the insertion of sterile, fine gauge needles that stimulate the body’s intrinsic healing abilities by activating or influencing specific points on these energetic channels, along the pathway of its circulation.  Each acupuncture point is like a tunnel, or access route, to the deeper circulatory channels within - a point on the body that influences the body back towards health.

Based on the interview and examinations (feeling of the pulses and a look at the tongue), a group of acupuncture points will be selected for the treatment.  The points will be specific to the patient’s condition.  Extremely fine gauge, one-time-use sterile needles made of surgical stainless steel (5 acupuncture needles fit in 1 hypodermic needle) will be used for the treatment.  Unlike hypodermic needles that cut the skin, acupuncture needles slide through the skin without cutting.  In general, patients either feel nothing or a very slight twinge during the needle insertion.  The sensation, if any, is brief and not harmful.  Some points have a characteristic mild, somewhat electrical sensation.

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