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At Balancing Point, we use methods found within Chinese Medicine to aid and restore our patients' health and well being. We strive to bring balance by combining holistic, traditional methods with modern knowledge to provide the best service possible. Our mission is to provide natural health care and make it accessible to all.
Dr. James C. Barrow, Acupuncture Physician
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At Balancing Point, we use methods found within Chinese Medicine to aid and restore our patients' health and well being. We strive to bring balance by combining holistive, traditional methods with modern knowledge to provide the best service possible.
James C. Barrow, Acupuncture Physician
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F.A.Q.
What is Oriental Medicine?
What most people refer to as acupuncture is really the profession of Oriental Medicine. "Acupuncturists" may use a wide variety of therapeutic techniques, including herbal medicine, exercise therapy and nutrition, as well as acupuncture.
Oriental Medicine (OM) is one of the oldest continous systems of medicine in history, with recorded instances dating as far back as two thousand years before the birth of Christ. It has its philosohical roots in Nature and uses gentle, but powerful methods to help harmoniously balance the body and bring it back to a healthier state.
What is Chinese Medicine?
What It Does
Chinese medicine is a complete medical system that has diagnosed, treated, and prevented illness for over twenty-three centuries. While it can remedy ailments and alter states of mind, Chinese medicine can also enhance recuperative power, immunity, and the capacity for pleasure, work, and creativity.
How It Thinks
Within Chinese Cosmology, all of creation is born from the marriage of two polar priciples, Yin and Yang: Earth and Heaven, winter and summer, night and day, cold and hot, wet and dry, inner and outer, body and mind. Harmony of this union means health, good weather, and good fortune, while disharmony leads to disease, disaster, and bad luck. The strategy of Chinese medicine is to restore harmony.
Each human is seen as a world in miniature, a garden in which doctor and patient together strive to cultivate health. Every person has a unique terrain to be mapped, a resilient yet sensitive ecology to be maintained. Like a gardener uses irrigation and compost to grow robust plants, the doctor uses acupuncture, herbs and food to recover and sustain health.
What is Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)?
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a compete health system with unique methods of diagnosing and treating illness. TCM defines disease as an imbalance of the body in Yin and Yang, impairment of Qui and/or blood flow, disharmony among organs, conflict of human physical, spiritual activities and the nature social environments.
Traditional Chinese medicine views the human physical body, mental and spiritual activities, natural and social environments as whole. Factors from all these aspects can be responsible for a disease to the vulnerable individual. Therefore, TCM believes that all clinically experienced symptoms and signs, (including those without scientifically detectable evidences or scientific explanations), should have the corresponding external or inner causes, which need to be addressed and properly treated. On the other hand, the traditional procedures may not be able to diagnose or locate the abnormalities defined on the Western medical criteria, e.g., certain early-staged cancers, which may be better detected by the diagnostic interventions of high technology. Based on this point of view Therefore, in China, it is said that Western medicine locates the disease, Oriental medicine treats it.
What is Qi? (pronounced chee)
Qi is an energy force that runs throughout the body. Qi consists of all essential life activities which include the spiritual, emotional, mental and the physical aspects of life. A person's health is influenced by the flow of Qi in the body, in combination with the universal forces of Yin and Yang. If the flow of Qi is insufficient, unbalanced or interrupted, Yin and Yang become unbalanced and illness may occur. Qi travels throughout the body along Meridians, (Channels or pathways). TCM has mapped more than 2,000 acupuncture points on the human body, which connect with 12 main and 8 secondary pathways called meridians. These meridians conduct energy, or Qi flow between the surface of the body and internal organs. Qi is comprised of two parts, Yin and Yang.
What is Yin and Yang?
Yin and Yang are opposite forces, that when balanced work together. When the Meridians become ovsatructed, deficient, excessive or just unbalanced, Yin and Yang are said to be thrown out of balance. This causes illness. Acupuncture is said to restore the balance.
What is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is a complete medical system that is used to diagnose and treat illness, manage chronic disorders, alleviate pain and promote health through prevention and maintenance. It can be used for physical, emotional and psychological problems.
Acupuncture is part of Traditional Oriental Medicine, the most widely used healing system in the world. The practice of acupuncture is rooted in ancient China.
The most significant milestone in the history of Acupuncture occurred
during the period of Huang Di -The Yellow Emperor (2697-2597).
In a famous dialogue between Huang Di and his physician Qi Bo, they
they discuss the whole spectrum of the Chinese Medical Arts.
These conversations would later become the monumental text -
The Nei Jing (The Yellow Emperors Classic of Internal Medicine).
The Nei Jing is the earliest book written on Chinese Medicine.
A turning point in the introduction of acupuncture in the United States came in 1971. James Reston, a reporter for The New York Times, was in Beijing to report on a ping-pong match between China and the United States. While there, he developed acute appendicitis and required an emergency appendectomy. The report of his firsthand experience with acupuncture for the management of his post-operative pain was published on the front page of The New York Times. This sparked an intense interest in acupuncture by the public. Several months later, a report favorable to acupuncture was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Acupuncture involves the insertion of fine, sterile, disposable needles into specific points on the body known as acupuncture points. These points act as gates into the bodys Qi and restore its smooth flow. Qi, translated as breath, air, or energy, is the substance that mediates all of our bodys interactions with the external environment. It is said that no disease can occur as long as Qi moves smoothly throughout the body. To facilitate this smooth flow, acupuncture harmonizes areas of deficiency and excess within the body by manipulating the distribution of Qi, blood, and body fluids (lymph, excess fluid, swelling, etc.). By manipulating and harmonizing the bodys Qi, blood, and body fluids, acupuncture acts as a way of both preventing and curing disease.
Is Acupuncture Painful?
You will feel a sensation with acupuncture, but you should not feel pain. Acupuncturists stimulate the needles to achieve de qi, or needling sensation, in order to get the proper therapeutic effect. You might feel heaviness, distention, tingling, warmth, or even a traveling sensation along the acupuncture channel. Most people feel energized by treatment, while others feel relaxed.
Where do the needles go?
Acupuncture needles are inserted in points located around the body. They are usually located on what are called channels or meridians which flow like rivers carrying qi and blood through the bodys landscape. Needles inserted at these points adjust the flow of qi and blood to help the body regain a healthier state. Needles are never inserted into blood vessels, nerves, organs or other vital structures of the body.
Are the needles clean?
The acupuncture needles used are sterilized, metallic, solid and hair-thin. After treatment, these single-use needles are disposed of in a biohazard waste container. New needles are used for each treatment.
What should I expect at the first appointment?
Acupuncture is a very effective method to treat a broad range of illnesses. Each patient has a unique medical history. The initial consultation is focused on understanding each patient's medical background and addressing individual health concerns. The evaluation will take approximately 20 to 30 minutes. During the evaluation, we will go over the following:
Review your medical history
Discuss your specific health concerns
Explain treatments available to improve your conditions and expected outcome
Answer questions regarding general acupuncture topics, treatment costs and other health related issues
Upon completion of our evaluation, you will have the opportunity to decide whether to proceed with the recommended treatment. You will have a clear idea of what to expect from our treatment methods, benefits and results, and associated costs. Contact Us today to begin relief of your Pain.
Why do you keep asking me to stick out my tongue?
Using the tongue as a guide, many physical ailments can be seen to manifest themselves in the appearance of the tongue, its color and
texture.
Shape and Size of Tongue
The shape and size of the tongue tends to address the status of fluids in the body. For example, a very large, puffy, or scalloped tongue suggests that fluids are not being properly metabolized in the body. In contrast, a very small, short tongue may indicate dryness, a deficiency of fluids, or deficiency in general. In addition to shape and size, any movement of the tongue can indicate a deficiency of energy or the presence of an internal wind pathogen.
Color of Tongue
Tongue color varies widely from person to person, but is a good indicator of the overall nature of what is going on in the body. A red tongue indicates that there is heat present in the body, and the redder the tongue, the greater amount of heat present. A tongue that is pale indicates a deficiency of qi and blood or the presence of cold. A purple tongue indicates there is stagnation somewhere in the body.
Tongue color may also vary on different parts of the tongue. For example, a tongue that is red at the very tip indicates heat in the Heart, as the tip of the tongue correlates with conditions of the Heart. Just behind the tip corresponds to the Lungs; the sides of the tongue are associated with the Liver; the center of the tongue with the Spleen/Stomach or digestion; and the back of the tongue is associated with the condition of the Kidney.
Tongue Coating
A coating on the tongue can also give information about your health. The thickness of a coating is an indicator of the severity of the condition being treated. A thin coating, one in which you can see the tongue through the coating, indicates that any pathogen present is mild or on the exterior. A thick coating that obscures the tongue indicates that the condition is deeper and more serious.
The condition of the coating also speaks to the condition of fluids in the body. A moist or wet coating indicates poor fluid metabolism, and a dry
coating indicates depleted fluids. A coating that is peeled off, either completely or partially, indicates some kind of heat or damage to the Stomach, possibly a depletion of Stomach Yin, or damage to Stomach Qi.
Does insurance cover Acupuncture?
Insurance companies are increasingly covering acupuncture. At this time we are not processing claims. If your insurance company does cover treatment, we would be happy to provide you with the necessary paperwork to get reimbursed.
What is Qi?
What is Ying and Yang?
Is Acupuncture painful?
Does insuance cover Acupuncture?
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Acupuncture is the insertion of very fine needles, on the body's surface, in order to influence physiological functioning of the body.
Electrotherapy is electrical stimulation of the energetic system of the body. It can be done non-evasively via pads attached to the skin or via inserted needles. It can also be done with special instruments that deliver calibrated low intensity impulses. Since the physiological processes of the body are essentially electrical, electrotherapy can be used for their regulation.
Auricular Acupuncture also known as Ear acupuncture, is based on the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is used for many conditions, including addiction treatment, mood disorders, obesity, pain and other conditions. The acupuncture points found on the ear help to regulate the body's internal organs, structures, and functions.
Auricular therapy has a long history of use in China. It was mentioned in the most famous of ancient Chinese medical textbooks, "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine." In modern times, auricular therapy has been shown to stimulate the release of endorphins, the body's own feel-good chemicals.
Moxibustion is the burning of herbs close to or on the surface of the skin. The most common herb used is Artemesia bulgaris, or mugwort. While stimulating the vital system of the body moxibustion adds the warming effect. It is very beneficial for cold conditions. We also use it to turn breech babies and, in Seitai Shinpo, to consolidate the therapy.
Cupping therapy is an ancient therapeutic procedure that has been used in China for thousands of years. It involves the application of a a partial vacuum produced in cups placed on the skin. The vacuum is typically generated either by means of heat from a burning alcohol cotton ball. By drawing up the underlying tissues, it opens the meridians, enhances Qi flow, and promotes the healing process.
In conventional medicine, the skin is considered
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
including:
Acupuncture
Electro Acupuncture
Auricular Acupuncture
Moxabustion
Cupping
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