Acupuncture Herbs and Qi Gong

Acupuncture is practiced on an individual case by case basis. Treatment starts when the patient comes in the door of the clinic. Right away the practitioner may get subtle insights into their constitution and general health. This is done by simple observations of the patients presentation, like the color of their clothes, their body odor, the sound of their voice, how they’re breathing, how they walk, the brightness in their eyes, their skin tone and color etc… When they’re in the treatment room the practitioner asks carefully guided questions to get the specific details into their case. Then the patients condition is confirmed by reading their pulse and looking at their tongue. The treatment then follows what was found during observation. The points that will be needled or massaged can then be chosen based on palpation of the channels and meridians associated with the chief complaint, or the advanced intuition of the disease presentation. Acupuncturists learn to treat the same diseases with different methods and to treat different diseases with the similar methods, thereby creating a system where every patient is treated based on their individual constitution and their presentation of disease. With this in mind, any individual patient will react to treatment differently. As a general rule, if you have chronic and or acute pain or disease then the longer you have had it the longer it will take to fix it. For acute situations you can usually expect to get relief with fewer treatments, were as with chronic situations it may take several treatments over longer periods of time to find lasting relief. With that being said, there are plenty of exceptions to that rule. Sometimes two to five treatments can have lasting results with chronic conditions in which nothing else could fix.