Acupuncture for General Anxiety
Anxiety can be experienced in many different ways such as OCD, PTSD, panic attacks, and phobias. For this blog, I will discuss acupuncture for anxiety as it relates to general anxiety. Giovanni Maciocia, a world-renowned expert and Chinese medicine practitioner, describes general anxiety as "an excessive, uncontrollable worry about everyday things. [A] constant worry [that] affects daily functioning and can cause physical symptoms." From a Chinese Medicine perspective, anxie
The Cause of Disease from a Chinese Medicine Perspective
Before examining a wide range of conditions and how acupuncture can help, I wanted to take a step back and discuss how a disease is viewed from a Chinese medicine perspective. There are three categories concerning the cause of disease: internal, external, and miscellaneous. The internal causes of disease can are the seven emotions. • Anger • Joy • Sadness • Worry • Grief • Fear • Shock The external causes of disease are six climates. • Wind • Fire •
Acupuncture for the Common Cold
Mom was right when she said, "don't go outside without a coat on or you will catch a cold." Well...she was sort of right. In Chinese Medicine, a common cold is caused by wind entering the body, usually from the back of the neck. We all have a defensive layer of qi, called Wei Qi, that circulates at the surface of the body, beneath the skin. If our defenses are down from things like not sleeping enough, overwork, poor diet, and stress, then wind can enter the body and bring
