Five Points Acupuncture

We provide a wide range of Chinese Medicines to meet your needs. We promise to provide every service with a smile, and to your highest level of satisfaction. 1. Listening: the first and most basic skill of a Chinese Medicine practitioner is to listen to the feelings, discomforts and history of the patient.

It is hard to define what acupuncture is and there isn't a definitive understanding of exactly what is happening. If you ask different practitioners they will all have their own version and understanding of what the therapy does. The concepts of qi and blood, yin and yang, often seem exotic or "Woo Woo, " but imagine trying to understand how the human body is made, and how it works, five thousand years ago.

Although herbs have become very popular and are easy to come by these days, Chinese Herbal Medicine is a very specific type of herbal regime. By assessing the patient in all the ways we listed previously, we come up with a working diagnosis o guide our herbal strategy.

In Chinese Herbal Medicine, herbs are never given as single ingredients, instead the herbs are combined in formulas that have a specific recipe of ratios, dosages, functions and directions.Like baking a cake or batch of brownies, the ingredients are combined in specific ways to create the proper chemistry of actions that will address that body, all based on the pattern of diagnosis that has been established.

Evaluating lifestyle factors that contribute to our pain or illnesses is an important part of Chinese Medicine. In America, the land of the SAD and fad diets, receiving proper nutrition is an important aspect to healing.

Looking beyond the common popular diets, like the Paleo diet, the Ketogenic diet, the Autoimmune diets, etc., and really looking at the personal tendencies and conditions of the patient, allows us to use the principles that Chinese medicine has laid out and build a more custom and moderate approach to food.

Although people might mistake body work for massage, they are in fact separate. Body work refers mainly to therapeutic forms that relate to the structural integrity and alignment of the body, many of which can be performed with your clothes on and without massage lotion.

At Five Points, we use Chinese Tui Na (Twee-Nah) methods to enhance our acupuncture treatments, which is a style of vigorous massage follows the same principles of Qi flow and channel theory.Tui Na is designed to open channels, improve blood flow, clear adhesions, lubricate the joints, and allow the tissues to re-align themselves naturally.