Balance Blog
All Things Health, Wellness, and Chinese Medicine
Acupuncture for Gut Health: A Holistic Approach to Digestion
Struggling with bloating, IBS, or digestive discomfort? Acupuncture helps reduce inflammation, improve digestion, and restore balance. At Balance, we’ve helped patients like a 25-year old woman with Crohn’s manage flare-ups naturally when medication wasn’t available. Read on to learn more about the benefits of holistic gut support with acupuncture.
Acupuncture for Healthy Menstrual Cycles
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) offer a holistic approach to managing menstrual health, focusing on balancing the body's energy (Qi), harmonizing hormones, and promoting emotional well-being. This article explores how acupuncture and TCM can support menstrual health, offering practical tips for maintaining a healthy menstrual cycle.
Acupuncture for Rheumatoid Arthritis
The Sloth’s wisdom represents a “three-toed” state of relaxed body and mind, consuming a primarily herbivore diet, and living in complete harmony with one’s environment. This wisdom can be realized in modern-day human beings through the three medicinal toes of proper diet, and the relaxing, mind-body healing effects of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal medicine. Proper lifestyle and diet combined with Chinese Medical therapies can help rheumatoid arthritis patients live a completely pain free life.
Acupuncture for Anxiety: How it Works
Anxiety is one of the top 3 things we treat in our practice- and certainly, daily. Acupuncture is a natural, safe, and effective treatment option for your emotional health and wellbeing!
Essential Oils for Stress + Anxiety Relief
Essential oils are famously used for their scents, but extracting the essence of a plant makes a potent medicine. Used correctly, they can be very beneficial for many health issues. Essential oils are accessible and easy to use, and can help you feel calmer when they’re incorporated into your self-care routine. Chances are, you might already own one of these helpful antidotes for stress at home!
A TCM Toolkit for Seasonal Allergies
Do you suffer from springtime allergies? From itchy eyes to asthma, Chinese Medicine and acupuncture can help! Acupuncture and herbal medicine can decrease pain and inflammation, bolster the immune system, and regulate the body's histamine response to its various offenders.
7 Acupressure Points for Stress + Anxiety Relief
The Covid-19 pandemic is a very stressful and challenging time for many of us. In between/ in lieu of your regular acupuncture treatments, try acupressure to take the edge off. A simple acupressure routine can help manage the effects of stress on the body, allowing our immune system to function more optimally.
5 Acupressure Points for Immune Support
In between/ in lieu of your regular acupuncture treatments, a great way to stay healthy during “viral” times is with acupressure. Applying pressure to acupuncture points can help stimulate the channels and communicate with the nervous system to build our body’s natural defenses.
Treating Addiction with NADA Ear Acupuncture Protocol
When it comes to treating addiction, acupuncture provides a foundation for recovery and rehabilitation, in addition to empowering you to create change.
Autoimmune Conditions + Chinese Medicine
As a holistic medicine, acupuncture is a very helpful ally in the treatment of autoimmune disorders because it addresses both the root of disease and the associated physical and emotional symptoms.
Acupuncture for Emotional Balance
Chinese Medicine offers an opportunity to improve your mental and physical health and to help you understand how your physical and emotional symptoms are related.
Treating Tennis Elbow with Acupuncture
Don’t let tennis elbow keep you on the bench- acupuncture can help! When doctors at the Mayo Clinic used acupuncture to treat 22 people with chronic tennis elbow, they found that and 80% got complete and lasting relief, while an additional 10% experienced a marked improvement.