Healing Modalities
Acupuncture
Acupuncture works by helping your body heal itself. It stimulates internal resources—whether one considers them as Qi or endorphins, immune system enhancers, or hormones—to help get more out of your natural healing process. Because of the vagaries of life and lifestyle, we don’t always use one hundred percent of our strength or intelligence (nor do we use one hundred percent of our healing capacity) but acupuncture can help you get closer to your full potential.
In that, acupuncture can treat conditions ranging from orthopedic pain to digestive issues to allergies to headaches, all by using needles as slender as individual hairs, inserted gently into the right points, at the right time. Both root causes and and the symptoms causing you discomfort in the moment of treatment will be assessed and brought into balance.
Acupuncture is a 2000 year old practice of medicine that is also recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) as an effective treatment for a variety of health conditions, and is the chief modality used in Traditional East Asian Medicine.
Herbal Medicine
Herbal medicine is one of the pillars of Traditional East Asian Medicine; its origins can be traced to prehistory and it continues to evolve via its intersection with modern pharmacology. At Hibiscus Acupuncture, the Chinese tradition and mode of diagnosis is used to assess your condition and tailor a treatment to your unique constitution.
Herbal medicine is effective for a range of conditions on its own, from orthopedic to digestive to neurological. It is also synergistic when used in conjunction with acupuncture, augmenting and extending the effects of acupuncture treatment.
With the direction of an experienced herbalist, herbal medicine can be used safely in conjunction with most pharmaceutical medicine. Hibiscus Acupuncture sources herbs and patent medicines only from the highest quality sources and GMP certified suppliers.
Tuina Manual Therapy
Tuina is the manual therapy mode of treatment in Traditional East Asian Medicine. It uses hands-on techniques to improve circulation, and thus enhance your body’s healing response. While primarily used to correct structural dysfunction and orthopedic issues, Tuina integrates well with acupuncture and herbal treatment for a wide range of issues.
Tuina uses the same model of points, channels, and organ systems as acupuncture and herbal medicine for its diagnostics and assessments. In that, it is useful when patients prefer alternatives to acupuncture needles, as acupressure can have similar health-promoting effects. Of course, as with other types of manual therapy, it is also useful for relaxation and maintenance of health.