Discover Nature’s Way of Self-Healing
Natural Health Consultations are an integral component of acupuncture and can be used independently as a powerful catalyst for uncovering patterns of imbalance that cultivate the foundation for poor health.
Our Natural Health Consultation provides the opportunity to have your medical history and overall health condition evaluated by our acupuncturists, who will use highly specialized diagnostic methods rooted in the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to identify various disease-causing factors at the root of poor health conditions and imbalances, and devise a personalized treatment plan for improvement.
Consult with our traditional naturopathy experts in Modesto, CA
Our Natural Health Consultation provides you access to professional TCM practitioners with over 20 years experience helping people stay naturally balanced, happy and healthy using diet & lifestyle modification, herbal medicine, and meditation exercises.
Consulting with a healthcare professional who has the knowledge and experience to guide you in selecting sound lifestyle and food choices, and supplementing the diet with the correct combination of herbs, vitamins, and minerals, is often the key to addressing specific health problems naturally and seeing changes through. Let our Natural Health Consultation help you get started with learning how to differentiate patterns of poor health in your life, and ensure you are maximizing the therapeutic benefits of nutrition and herbs while minimizing any adverse interactions.
Diet & Lifestyle
The exhausting fast pace of modern living can often lead to poor diet and lifestyle choices that pose a great challenge in achieving the happy and healthy life you desire. Left unchecked, these can lead to physical, emotional, and behavioral health problems, and disconnect you spiritually.
Using time-tested diagnostic theories and methods, our acupuncturists can help you understand the multi-directional relationship between mind, body, and spirit, and how these are all intimately connected and dependent on one another in wellness, health, and disease. Taking all aspects of your being into account, we are also able to provide holistic diet and lifestyle guidelines, including the safest and most effective use of nutritional supplements and herbs, for overcoming health challenges that interfere with achieving total wellness.
Herbal Medicine
Humans have been using the various parts of plants— flowers, leaves, roots, fruit, branches, and bark— as medicine for thousands of years to treat just about everything. Known as herbal medicine, it is a powerful addition to every natural health maintenance program and can be used alone to promote health and support recovery from a wide variety of health imbalances.
Our acupuncturists are master herbalists with decades of experience helping people target the right medicinal herbs and dosing that are of most benefit for each individual’s personalized needs. Let our knowledge and experience in selecting the correct combination of herbs take the guesswork out of choosing which ones to use, or how much to take, and when.
Meditation
In a world full of technology and fast-paced modern living, our minds easily wander into the future or dwell on the past, fantasizing or worrying to the point that we lose focus of living happily in the here and now. Meditation brings us back to the present moment, out of distracting thoughts, and gives us the tools we need to center and calm the mind so that we can live life more calmly, fully, and compassionately.
Our acupuncturists have extensive experience providing time-tested meditation and mindfulness practices that not only restore mental-emotional balance, but also help with regulating sleep, increasing energy, and improving blood circulation and pressure. Let us help guide you in promoting the clear and calm mind needed to overcome various life obstacles and promote functional health.
About Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a modern term that describes a complete system of naturopathic medicine rooted in holistic and functional health principles and concepts that originated in ancient China. TCM aims to restore health and promote longevity by using various medical disciplines, including acupuncture, manual therapies (massage, tuina, acupressure), and consultation for lifestyle, nutrition, and use of herbal medicine and other dietary supplements.
Used over thousands of years in the East Asian region of the world, TCM has recently been incorporated into modern healthcare systems throughout Europe and North America, making up the foundation of a vast body of medical knowledge called Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Many of the core holistic and functional principles of TCM have also been used as the basis of emerging models of healthcare in the West, such as integrative medicine and functional medicine.
TCM FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
- TCM embraces a patient-centered approach, educating and encouraging patients to become responsible for their own health and wellbeing.
- TCM aims on improving the functional core of the human being as the starting point for intervention.
- TCM focuses in restoring balance to body systems by strengthening the fundamental processes that underlie them.
- TCM centers on both the mind and the body as an integrated whole that must be balanced and harmonized for optimum health.
TCM IS PREVENTIVE
TCM uses its own unique and complete system of diagnosis that addresses health issues based on a root-and-branch diagnostic philosophy. In TCM the body is viewed as an interconnected unifying whole system, similar to a tree that is in dynamic relationship to its natural environment.
TCM not only takes into account the manifesting symptoms of disease (branch), but also identifies patterns of imbalance at the root of poor health. This allows our Natural Health Consultation to focus on all of a person’s needs simultaneously with highly individualized and complete treatments geared towards prevention.
Natural Health Consultation for Plant-Based Nutrition
Modern industrialized dietary patterns characterized by high intakes of processed, pre-packaged and artificially flavored foods, such as animal milk and meat products, fried foods, refined grains and cereals, and high-sugar drinks, are lacking in many essential nutrients that our body needs to maintain favorable health. Too many processed and denatured foods are being consumed and directly contributing to a long-list of avoidable health problems.
In TCM, there is no difference between food and medicine- food is medicine. Because eating the right foods is the safest, least invasive technique to bring about the most beneficial change in poor health conditions, proper nutrition is always the preferred first line of treatment in TCM to treat and prevent disease.
Historically, TCM promotes eating a diet consisting mainly of fresh plant-based foods that are the most vital and free from chemicals, preservatives, and over-processing. Generations of people have used the TCM plant-based diet to initiate good dietary habits that not only treat various symptoms and syndromes, but also promote health, vitality, beauty, and longevity.
Studies have shown that a plant-based diet helps maintain optimal function of the musculoskeletal, circulatory, nervous, endocrine, lymphatic, and digestive systems. In some cases, correcting nutritional deficiencies with a plant-based diet may be used to help alleviate symptoms and poor health conditions that have not responded well to conventional care.
The effectiveness of TCM nutrition lies in its use of a set of diagnostic principles that arrange various signs and symptoms of poor health into what are called patterns of imbalance. Patterns of imbalance help describe how illnesses begin, what trajectory they’re taking, and how functional health and wellbeing is impacted. In TCM, the goal is to identify and treat the underlying root pattern of imbalance, rather than just chase the manifesting symptoms.
Our Natural Health Consultation seeks to determine how various signs and symptoms are organized into a pattern that illustrates the condition of health. Taking into account your whole well being, not just physical symptoms, our TCM practitioners try to find out how other factors like your environment, constitution, lifestyle and dietary habits, and emotional and mental well-being depict a pattern of imbalance at the root of the current condition. Using the information gathered, our acupuncturists will outline a personalized plan for using plant-based nutrition, as well herbal medicine and nutritional supplements, to meet your individual needs.
Natural Health Consultation for Herbal Medicine
Throughout China and East Asia, medicinal herbal formulas have been used since at least the 1st Century BCE. In this part of the world the practice of herbal medicine is considered one of the primary therapeutic methods of TCM. Today Chinese herbal medicine formulas remain the most highly developed and most used herbal medicine system in the world.
Chinese herbal remedies offer a wide spectrum of nutritional value and health benefits. Being relatively inexpensive and accessible to everyone, they have become a staple in most industrialized households.
TCM Herbal Formulas In Modern Healthcare
Modern research has shown that many Chinese herbs and herbal formulas contain active components that display a wide spectrum of pharmacological effects. Combined with traditional indications of use, Chinese herbal formulas have become an effective natural choice in both supporting a wide range of health benefits, as well as treating many different types of illnesses and conditions that are often closely associated with biomedically defined diseases.
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TCM Herbal Formulas Boost Immune Function
TCM herbal formulas are especially effective in supporting optimum immune system function, particularly in relation to common colds and other infections, stress, skin problems, insomnia, fatigue, and various unresolved illnesses that have not responded well to conventional care. They are also commonly used to alleviate pain and other symptoms and conditions related to the inflammatory response such as stress, anxiety, trauma, injury, arthritis, chronic diseases and/or drug treatment.
TCM Herbal Formulas Regulate Digestive Function
TCM herbal formula are also well known for their excellent ability to regulate and optimize digestive function. They are commonly used to help with various disorders of the gastrointestinal tract including indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, poor appetite, gas, nausea, bloating, excess weight gain, acid regurgitation, and stomach ulcers.
