Acupuncture and Holistic Health

The food you eat, the air you breathe, your thoughts and your emotional environment, add to your health and care of your body. These are the tools that help your body to heal, help the nervous system relax fuel our energy and improve our immunity. With Chinese Medicine and Chinese Medical diagnosis, you are guided about the foods and nutritional habits, which benefit you and enhance your longevity and the nutrition, which is weakening your health.

Sun Si Miao, a famous Chinese practitioner, stated that if a person created a healthy lifestyle, including diet, 80% of their health problems would be remedied.

The best nourishment comes from a relaxed, calm mind.

In Chinese medicine, there is recognized, the dual aspects of yin and yang. Yin is the substance, the nourishing, grounding quality. Yang is movement, change, transformation, transportation.

Think of it in the analogy of a car. A car has an engine and there is oil in the engine to help the car move so there is not so much friction with the movement. In this example, the engine is yang and the oil in the engine is yin.

Many people in today’s modern world run the engine without much oil in it. This is especially true, as we age.

Eating is a process where we bring external energies into our body’s center. We do this, relying on our ability to transform these raw materials into usable nutrition, supplementing our blood, bones, organs and bodily functions. When we eat, we open ourselves to take in yin nourishing substances and yang functional qualities. Subtle qualities like our state of mind during meal times can greatly affect our ability to digest. A healthy mind and emotional state leads to a proper mental attitude to eating which leads to energy infusing the Stomach and Spleen, allowing proper digestion and absorption.