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CHINESE PULSE DIAGNOSIS
AND ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY
Our bodies are continually healing themselves, and sometimes they need additional help. Acupuncture, applied Qi Gong, and the use of Chinese Herbs help promote a continual state of healing and repair in our bodies. The practice of Classical Chinese Medicine supports this movement and change by treating the natural rhythm of energy and blood flow. Given the proper support, the body is able to establish optimal health.
“I went to see Gwen for one issue and with her assistance was able to identify the root cause of my issues. With regular Acupuncture sessions and Chinese Herbs, I have an increased sense of vitality, feel more aware of my body, and with Gwen’s pulsing diagnosis and guidance I’ve become an active participant in improving my health. ”
What to expect
Your first Treatment will include:
Your Pulse Intake
A comprehensive 30 minute Pulse Assessment
This process gives detailed information regarding your nervous system and the current state and function of your organsAcupuncture Treatment/ Qi Gong Tuina
Your treatment will be directed by your Pulse Assessment, as well as your presenting symptoms. Some acupuncture or contact needling will be performed as well as a form of bodywork, called Qi Gong Tuina, which is a wonderful way to deeply support the body, and awaken it to it’s natural healing potential.
You’ll find the treatment deeply relaxing and often people will rest and fall asleepChinese Herbal Therapy
The herbal supplements support and reinforce the treatment and benefit digestive energy and sleepTreatment Strategy
You’ll discuss the next steps that will guide you to feeling better
Pulsing
Pulsing is a diagnostic technique used in traditional Chinese medicine. Pulse diagnosis is important for two reasons - it can give very detailed information on the state of the internal organs, and all other parts of your body. The pulse examination involves the palpation of the pulse at your wrist. Through checking the pulse Gwen can feel the person’s level of health flowing through their blood stream. She can feel where there is vitality in your body, and where it might be lacking. Pulsing also tells her about your body’s constitution. Specifically, she’ll be able to diagnose the source of your ill health.
Chinese medicine relies on the pulse as a diagnostic tool. Why? Because of it’s sophistication and it’s precision. How the pulse beats in each of us reveals the state of our tissues, our blood, the exact location of where stress and exhaustion lay and where they take their greatest toll; the pulse can mysteriously shine a light of presence on our life’s stories, our mental habits, and our emotional energies, all stored within. How it beats, how it moves under listening finger tips,… the hesitations, the rising, the flooding, the sinking, the vibrating, the spreading out or the consolidations… when and where…it all means something. It is guidance for us, as practitioners so that we can provide the best care for each individual being. I remember my teacher, Dr Leon Hammer saying that to listen to another’s pulse, really listen, is a treatment of it’s own, and a great act of kindness.
Applied Qi Gong, an ancient form of body work and an integral part of East Asian medicine, works on the same energy channels as acupuncture, and as such moves energy deep within the body. Different from acupuncture, this body work uses touch and covers a wider region than a single needle does, and yet it can reinforce the powerful effect of acupuncture. The work of applied Qi Gong influences and corrects our immune system function, as well as having a calming and emotionally stabilizing effect.
Our bodies have a layer of fascia just beneath the skin that covers every inch of us. Recent investigation is showing that fascia, considered by some to be it’s own organism, is playing a central role in how the body manages pain and inflammation. By working on one region of the body, applied Qi Gong works to decrease inflammation globally since it is a communicating through out the fascial layer.
My experience is showing me that this form of body work alone, or in conjunction with the needles, brings about profound and lasting changes. This is proven to me by corrective changes happening in one’s overall pulse picture, changes that were very hard to bring about otherwise.
