What is Chinese Medicine?
Chinese Medicine has been a part of the Asian culture for more than 5000 years.   The Chinese have developed an understanding that all living beings, including human beings, are created and maintained by matter and energy.  This is what is known as Yin & Yang.  The Chinese have taken this understanding of the universe and developed a medical system that views health as the proper balance and maintenance of the life energy.  This life energy is known as Qi [pronounced:  chee].   When this energy is out of balance, or obstructed in the body, it may affect our well-being and we may begin to experience disease and discomfort.    Chinese Medicine has developed many ways to affect and correct any imbalance in our body.  Various forms of practice include Acupuncture, Herbal, Diet, Qi Gong, Tui Na [massage], Tai Ji Quan & Meditation.

How can it benefit you?
Because Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture treats the body as complete whole, or "wholistically", it is able to treat many illnesses and diseases.  Many disease symptoms, which from a "western" point of view seem at first to be unrelated, often are symptoms of a larger and more serious imbalance or disturbance of the body's vital energy.  By affecting and treating the body on a wholistic level, acupuncture and herbal medicine are able to alleviate many separate symptoms of the same underlying disease.  Chinese Medicine can treat diseases such as Migraine Headache, Stroke, Nausea, Depression, Insomnia, Hypertension, Dysmenorrhea (PMS), Uro-gental and Respiratory disorders, and much more.  

What is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is one of the oldest forms of Chinese Medicine that has been developed throughout the centuries.  Acupuncture is the use of very fine, solid bore needles which are placed into acupoints located beneath the skin and muscle of the patient.  With these needles, the Acupuncturist is able to affect the patient's own natural healing energy, or Qi.  By strengthening the body's own Qi, our pain, illness, or disease is resolved naturally by the body's own healing systems.  

What are Acupoints?
Acupoints are specific sites located beneath the skin on a person’s body where the person's own Qi circulates.  These sites permit the Acupuncturist to affect directly the Qi of the body thereby regulating the functional activities of the body.