Our role in your health is to support your body’s own self-healing abilities

Stress hurts our bodies. It increases our blood pressure and our cortisol levels, lowers our immune function, and contributes to a wide range of symptoms such as headaches, digestive disturbances, muscle pain, palpitations, insomnia, weight gain, substance abuse, and hormonal imbalances. A lifetime of stress can contribute to a heart attack, cancer, thyroid problems, and diabetes.

 

In Chinese medicine, stress and anxiety lead to stagnation. In effect, the more stressed you become, the more your body behaves like a pressure cooker getting tighter and tighter until qi and blood are unable to flow freely. It is this “pent-upness” that leads to many of the diseases that stress causes. Many of you tell me how great you feel after having acupuncture, how your muscles relax and your mind slows down. In effect, the acupuncture is letting the pressure out of the pressure cooker. It’s a great way to offset the effects of a stressful life.