Menopause: Acupuncture Helps You Find Balance

 

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, menopause is also called "the Second Spring".

The child-bearing years are viewed as the first "spring" when women are obligated to care for family, children, and their community.  During their "Second Spring", women devote time to their OWN needs!  They nurture their own personal growth and creativity, and are revered for their life experience and age. Sounds nice, doesn't it?!

 

Menopause is a natural progression and a sign of health dictated by the body.  It is a time of transformation where women can experience increased energy and approach their lives from new viewpoints.  It can also be a time of imbalance including, hot flushes, poor sleep and digestion, and a feeling "unlike oneself". 

 

Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine celebrate the natural stages of our lives and offer much to smooth out transitions.  An acupuncture treatment plan can help by relieving stress, reducing hot flashes, improving sleep and digestion, and most importantly, helping you feel like yourself again!

Lupus: How Acupuncture and Herbal Therapy Can Help

Lupus is an autoimmune disease causing inflammation of the connective tissue.  Western medicine doesn't understand the cause of this difficult disease that mainly afflicts women.  Ninety percent of patients complain of joint pain, and 40% of patients have skin conditions and photo-sensitivity.  Other symptoms can include headaches, personality changes, and epilepsy.  Lupus has levels of severity, with mild lupus not affecting life-style and severe lupus being potentially life threatening.  Western treatments involve NSAIDs to antimalarials and corticosteroids, depending of severity. 

 

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine offer relief from pain syndromes involved with lupus.  As lupus tends to be a chronic and relapsing disease with periods of remission that can last for years, acupuncture helps strengthen the body and reduce the frequency and severity of flare-ups.  While Chinese medicine can not cure the disease, it creates change and allows patients to maintain health and lead a more normal and active life. 

 

Please call me with any questions you may have about how I can help!

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