Acupuncture treatments are based on a medical system developed in China over 4,000 years ago. Acupuncture involves inserting very fine needles into the skin and muscles at specific points on the body. Stimulating these points facilitates communication between the brain and body by triggering biochemical reactions. The body responds by releasing neurotransmitters, adjusting hormone levels, increasing blood flow, and regulating pain, thereby restoring normal function to the body’s systems.
Cupping is a medical treatment used for several thousand years throughout the ancient world, from areas in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, and in Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist traditions.
Fire cupping uses a flame inserted into a glass cup, removing oxygen from the cup to create suction when placed on the body. The suction draws old, stagnant blood and lymph from deep tissues to the surface, where the body can more easily “clean it up”, making room for new, fresh blood to flow through the affected area.
Cupping is beneficial to use for musculoskeletal pain, inflammatory conditions, the early stage of the common cold, emotional stress, and more.
Traditional gua sha is a medical treatment that predates acupuncture in historical accounts. A smooth-edged tool is used to make repeated, even strokes across the surface of the body.
The benefits of traditional gua sha include resolving pain, promoting normal circulation to tissues and muscles and reducing inflammation. Gua sha can also reduce fever, activate the immune system, and relieve cough and asthma. Popular facial gua sha used for cosmetic purposes is inspired by but different from traditional gua sha, which is utilized to treat health conditions.
Chinese herbal medicine can be a powerful tool to alleviate symptoms and restore and maintain health. Chinese medicine utilizes over 350 herbs, which are natural materials, such as leaves, bark, roots, flowers, and minerals. When combined into herbal formulas, the herbs have a synergistic effect, thereby increasing their therapeutic properties.
Ying Spring Acupuncture uses Evergreen brand herbal capsules due to their quality and purity. Evergreen herbs must pass an average of 15 tests to ensure safe, high quality products. Their herbs follow the standards of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) established by the US Food & Drug Administration and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Electro-acupuncture, also called E-stim, involves using a gentle electric current between a pair of acupuncture needles.
E-stim is especially useful in treating chronic pain, paralysis and neurological conditions, including neuropathy, stroke recovery and Bell’s palsy.