
Preventive Health
Are you looking for a way to naturally prevent disease and promote optimal health and wellness? At GoldStar Acupuncture in Modesto, CA, we offer 100% drug-free all-natural acupuncture treatment for preventive health.
Learn more about how this traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) procedure can help support natural preventive health safely and effectively, and improve quality of life and overall well-being:
Discover Natural Preventive Health With Acupuncture

Serious health problems often begin with common minor ailments that appear to be insignificant and a normal part of modern living. But more often than not, when common health issues such as indigestion, heartburn, constipation, recurrent colds and flus, excessive weight gain, stress, low energy, poor sleep, muscle and joint pain, and other symptoms become persistent, they are the body’s way of signalling an alarm, warning that your health is in danger and needs attention.
When overlooked, ignored, or improperly treated, most of these common health issues can easily spiral into more complex illnesses that are not only more difficult to treat, but are also setting the foundation for more serious disease to take a foothold in the future.
Do you know acupuncture offers a holistic approach to supporting the body’s natural ability to ease a wide variety of symptoms, promote healing, and prevent disease?
Acupuncture is a time-tested natural method of disease prevention that can help balance the body’s natural ability to restore functional health and ward off illness. Acupuncture is able to identify, target and balance the underlying dysfunction between various organ and body systems at the root of most common poor health conditions to promote healing and provide natural relief from fatigue, pain, poor sleep, stress, depression, and other common health issues. It also aids digestion and metabolism, strengthens immunity, improves elimination of waste and toxins, and boosts energy to help cultivate long-term health and prevent disease.
Benefits of Acupuncture for Preventive Health
How Acupuncture Treatment Works for Preventive Health

Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese medical practice that stimulates a person’s own self-healing mechanism. It involves the insertion of ultra-thin therapeutic needles into specific points along the body’s energy meridians. Acupuncture helps promote healing by balancing and restoring the flow of energy, known as Qi, in the meridians.
While it has been recently popularized for its effectiveness in treating pain conditions, acupuncture has been used to prevent disease and promote overall well-being for thousands of years.

In acupuncture, poor health conditions begin as an imbalance within the functioning of organs and body systems, namely the Heart, Liver, and Kidneys, and the digestive, endocrine, and immune systems. Acupuncture for preventive health works by stimulating specific points on the body that are related to these organs and body systems to help balance their functions and interactions, improve metabolism and circulation, boost immunity, encourage the elimination of pathogenic toxins and waste, and promote healing. Some key acupuncture points for preventive health include:
- CV 6 (Qi Hai 氣海): Enhances kidney function, regulates blood circulation, strengthens energy, alleviates pain, promotes healing, boosts immunity.
- GV 4 (Meng Men 命門): Supports kidney function, improves energy and blood circulation, alleviates pain, balances mood, promotes healing, boosts immunity.
- GV 20 (Tian Man 百會): Improves energy and blood circulation, alleviates stress, balances mood, promotes healing, boosts immunity.
- Liver 3 (Tai Chong 太沖): Enhances liver detoxification function, relieves pain, balances mood and emotions, promotes healing, boosts immunity.
- Liver 13 (Zhang Men 章門: Promotes healthy digestion, enhances liver detoxification, boosts digestive metabolism, and improves blood circulation.
- Kidney 3 (Tai Xi 太谿): Supports kidney detoxification function, boosts immunity, and balances mood.
- Kidney 27 (Shu Fu 俞府): Supports kidney detoxification function, boosts immunity, and balances mood.
- Urinary Bladder 17 (Ge Shu 膈俞): Improves blood circulation, and supports the elimination of toxins.
- Large Intestine 4 (He Gu 合谷): Improves digestive motility, boosts immunity, relieves pain, and supports the elimination of toxins.
- Spleen 6 (San Yin Jiao 三陰交): Regulates digestion and blood circulation, enhances digestive metabolism, boosts immunity, relieves pain.
- Spleen 10 (Xui Hai 血海): Improves blood circulation and supports the elimination of toxins.
- Stomach 36 (Zu San Li 足三里): Boosts digestive metabolism and immunity, enhances blood circulation, and supports the elimination of toxins.

Research shows that acupuncture can help stimulate the anti-inflammatory mechanism in the body that not only eases the severity of pain, stress, fatigue, poor sleep, depression, and other symptoms associated with poor health, but also regulates detoxification pathways to enhance the elimination of toxic waste from the body and restore health faster and more efficiently. It has also been shown to help regulate metabolism, fat storage, blood circulation, digestion, and the absorption of nutrients, and improve immune function to enhance the body’s self-healing mechanism, promote healing and improve resistance to disease.
Acupuncture Treatment for Preventive Health Uses Herbal Medicine Formulas

Acupuncture treatment for preventive health also includes the use of medicinal Chinese herbs. Chinese herbal medicine is well known for its excellent ability to help regulate detoxification pathways and metabolic function, improve digestion, reduce inflammation, and promote healing. They offer natural relief of various symptoms of poor health, including indigestion, bloating, constipation, stress, pain, poor sleep, low immunity, inability to lose weight or excess weight gain, and others.
Chinese herbs are also used to help enhance and optimize immunity and maintain a healthy gut flora balance to aid overall healing and strengthen resistance to disease. Common Chinese herbs used in acupuncture treatment for preventive health include:
- Angelica Sinensis (Dang Gui / Radix Angelicae Sinensis): Tonifies blood, promotes blood circulation, eases pain, boosts energy, strengthens immunity.
- Astragalus (Huang Qi/ Radix Astragali Membranaceus): Strengthens immunity, tonifies blood, boosts energy, promotes healing.
- Atractylodes (Bai Zhu/ Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae): Boosts energy, strengthens immunity, promotes blood circulation.
- Codonopsis (Dang Shen / Radix Codonopsitis Pilosulae): Boosts energy, strengthens immunity, tonifies blood, promotes healing, restores constitution, expels pathogenic factors.
- Cordyceps (Dong Chong Xia Cao / Cordyceps Sinensis): Boosts energy, strengthens immunity, promotes healing.
- Ginseng (Ren Shen / Radix Ginseng): Boosts energy, strengthens immunity, tonifies blood, balances mood, promotes healing.
- Licorice Root (Gan Cao / Radix Glycyrrhizae Uralensis): Boosts energy, eases, spasms, cramps and pain, improves sleep, eliminates toxins, protects the digestive mucous membranes, and enhances overall digestive function.
- Schizandra (Wu Wei Zi / Fructus Schizandrae Chinensis): Supports kidney function, strengthens immunity, promotes digestion.
- Turmeric (Jiang Huang/ Rhizoma Curcumae Longae): Enhances liver and gall bladder function, eliminates toxins, enhances blood circulation, eases pain, regulates sleep, and relieves stress.
Acupuncture Treatment for Preventive Health Uses Nutrition Therapy

Acupuncture for preventive health also uses dietary modification and nutrition as part of treatment. Nutrition therapy in acupuncture promotes eating a diet consisting mainly of fresh plant-based foods that are the most vital and free from chemicals, preservatives, and over-processing. Studies have shown that eating a low calorie, high-fiber, nutrient-rich diet consisting of more whole, non-processed, plant-based foods helps eliminate excess waste and toxins from the body, promote healing and boost immunity, while minimizing inflammation and pain, and maintaining optimal metabolic and digestive function to promote total well-being.
What to Expect During Your First Acupuncture Treatment for Preventive Health



