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Acupuncture FAQ's
Energetic Nutritional Testing FAQ's
What is the basic principle of Traditional Chinese Medicine?
Does it really work?
Traditional Chinese Medicine was developed more than 3,000 years ago and is one of the oldest ways of healing people. Since it has been tested and challenged for such a long period of time, it must have been a powerful healing tool just through the time element alone. Chinese philosophy believe that everything should be done in the middle way which means in moderation. When the Chinese say you have disease in your body, they mean you have disorder or disharmony in your body. Therefore, in Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment method, we emphasize harmonizing internal function of the body. This approach of harmony has given the Chinese medicine a handle on many chronic and debilitating conditions. It does not matter how chronic the disease is, if you can correct the body and return it to harmony again, nothing is irreversible.
Qi (pronounced Chi):
Energy, Vital substance produced by the organs flowing on pathways to every cell in the body. Energy moves the blood.
Blood:
Fluid circulated by the organs and energy through the vascular system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to every cell in the body. Blood nourishes the energy.
Organ:
Part of the body adapted for specific functions that govern health, including the production of blood and energy.
Acupuncture:
Insertion of hair-thin needles into the body at specific points in the treatment of health problems.
Chinese Herbal Medicine:
Method of composing herbal formulas taken internally in the treatment of health problems.
Oriental Medicine:
Term used to denote a complete medical system- in use for over 23 centuries
Oriental Medicine recognizes 12 organs; the lungs, large intestine, stomach, spleen, gall bladder, liver, heart, small intestine, urinary bladder, kidney, pericardium, and the overall digestive tract. They produce blood and energy, which are the building blocks of proper body function. Blood flows in the blood vessels throughout the body. Energy flows on specific pathways throughout the body. Physical, chemical, or emotional stressors can cause the organs to malfunction, blood and energy to stagnate.
The purpose of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine is to return flow of energy and blood back to normal and to reinstate optimal organ function. This will, in turn, restore function to the affected area and the body will begin to heal itself. If detected early, organ malfunction and blood and energy stagnation may respond well to Oriental Medicine with an excellent chance for a complete recovery.
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What is the difference between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine?
The primary mode of thought in Western medicine is very analytical, where they dissect things into very small parts until it points down to a very specific disease. Chinese Medicine completely do the opposite way. We put all the signs and symptoms together, piece by piece, gathering as much information from you as possible until the picture of a whole person appears. That is what is amazing about the Chinese diagnostic and treatment method.
Therefore, the Chinese way of diagnosing disease is only meaningful when it was presented as a picture of a person rather than an isolated disease. And it has to be a particular patient at a specific time, depending on the mood and condition of the body. The treatment in Chinese medicine is also focused on a whole person, rather than a single isolated disease.
In Chinese Medicine we believe that mental, emotional, and physical illness are closely related. That is why it is vital to take the entire person into account. On the other hand, Western medicine tends to place different qualities in separate categories and they are not interchangeable. In other words, the mind and body are separate entities, and according to Western thought, they are only sometimes interrelated.
For example, if you have abdominal problem, you will be referred to an internal medicine specialist. And at the same time, if you have mental depression, you will be referred to a psychiatrist. However, if you seek treatment under Chinese Medicine, we will gather as much signs and symptoms as possible, and then your multiple conditions of your whole body will be diagnosed as one. And they are interrelated, because our body, mind and soul are together.
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What is acupuncture? How does it work?
 There are twelve channels of energy through your whole body from head to your toes which are meridians. These energy channels are like rivers flowing through your body that irrigate and nourish every cell of your body. Therefore, if there is an obstruction in the pathway of the rivers which block the movement of the energy flow, the pathway will overflow and flood which will restrict the flow of other channels. It will also influence the other tissues of your body.
Chinese have a saying, "Bu Tong Ze Tong", which means that if the channel is obstructed, there will be pain; if the channel is unobstructed, there will be no pain. Therefore, whenever you have pain in your body, certain channels are definitely obstructed. These channels of energy run in a regular pattern and go through internal channels and connect with the internal organs. Therefore, simply by stimulating the acupuncture point on the surface, it will go through the inside channels and eventually relate to the internal organs.
How can we unblock these obstructions? By inserting the needles into the acupuncture points which are like annex with more energy blockage. Once you unblock the obstruction, you will reopen the regular flow of the body, you will feel smooth, relaxed and calm again. Therefore, acupuncture can help correct the imbalance of the internal organs and improve the digestive absorption and increase the circulation of the "chi", or energy flow.
On the other hand, if you use the Modern scientific method to explain acupuncture. It stimulates the nervous system in your body so that your body will release chemicals either in your muscles, spinal cord or your brain. And these chemicals will either change the experience of your pain, or it will further stimulate the other chemicals to be released, along with other hormones, which will influence the body's own internal regulating system. And there is no medicine involved. All it does is to stimulate the body's own natural healing system.
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Is there a guarantee result to the treatment of herb or/and acupuncture?
It all depends on you. You are you own master. You are the eventual healer of yourself. The ultimate healer is your own mind. Only you can help yourself. No matter whether it is western medicine, herbs or acupuncture, they are all tools to help you achieve your goal of healing and improve the quality of your life. With positive programming, you know you can do it.
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What is an Acupuncture treatment Like?
 There is wide variety of styles of acupuncture performed. Generally three to twelve needles will be placed. Acupuncture needles are solid, slender (slightly thicker than a human hair), and bear no resemblance to hypodermic syringes. The stainless steel, pre-sterilized, disposable needles used at our clinic are of the highest quality. The areas on your body used in treatment will be cleaned in advance with a cotton ball saturated with food-grade ethyl alcohol.
Most insertions are made just beneath the skin's surface. You may experience two stages of sensation with acupuncture: the insertion (which may feel from nothing at all to like a mosquito bite), and the arrival of energy at the tip of the needle (which may feel achy, distending, warm, electric or tingling). Each person has a unique experience.
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What to expect on your first Acupuncture Office Visit?
Your first office visit may require up to 1.5 hours, during which you will have an opportunity to speak at length about your health concerns. This initial visit, designed to enable your practitioner to assess the underlying conditions leading to your current situation, included an interview and a physical examination. The session is completed in confidentiality. You will then be advised of the anticipated frequency of treatments and length of overall course of treatments.
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We work with you to make it comfortable to afford your health. We will try to fit into your budget in order to help you reach the optimal function of your physical conditions.
In house payment plans are available as are financing options for qualified patients through our Budget Plan and Care Credit. With a comprehensive range of plan options for treatment, we offer a plan and a low monthly payment to fit comfortably into almost every budget.
We will handle the paperwork for you.
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What is Energetic Nutritional Testing?
• Systemic analysis of your body’s own magnetic energy field, neurological reflexes and acupuncture points.
• Personalized health improvement program using designed clinical nutrition.
• Use of organic whole food supplements, Homeopathic remedies and various herbs
• Unique nutritional program designed specifically for you.
• A study of how the different points on the body relate to your state of health and flow of energy in organs and functions of the body.
• A method to get healthy & stay healthy by being responsible for your own health.
• A nutritional analysis with a high rate of success.
• A way to improve your immune response and cope with environmental stresses.
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What Energetic Nutritional Testing is Not!
• Treatment of disease
• Over-the-counter vitamins
• One size fits all thinking
• Replacement of medical providers
Designed Clinical Nutrition is not "over the counter vitamins". Over-the-counter vitamins are pharmaceutically engineered chemical fractions of vitamin structures reproduced in a laboratory.
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How do we do the Analysis?
In medical practice there are two key parts: the diagnosis (identifying and/or naming the “disease” or syndrome) and the treatment (drugs, surgery, etc.).
In Energetic Nutritional Testing we do not diagnose or treat disease - but we also have two parts: the analysis and the personalized health improvement program (using designed clinical nutrition).
Simply put, first we do an analysis, and then we design a natural health improvement program to help you handle what we find in our analysis of your body and condition.
The analysis is done through testing the body’s own neurological reflexes and acupuncture points. The neurological reflexes are derived from the part of the nervous system whose job is to regulate the functions of each and every organ. The acupuncture points are selected from the ancient Chinese system of acupuncture, which is thousands of years old.
Energetic Nutritional Testing is a study of how the different points on the surface of the body relate to the state of health and to the flow of energy in each and every organ and function of the body.
Interestingly, since the human anatomy has not changed significantly in thousands of years, the utilization of these reflexes and specific points have become extremely useful in our practice because they are so accurate!
Think about it
Each Energetic Nutritional Testing reflex represents a specific organ, tissue, or function, and indicates the effect that energy, or the lack of energy, is having on the body. By testing the Energetic Nutritional Testing reflexes, we have a system of monitoring your body at each visit that has proven to be extremely accurate clinically, and that helps us identify exactly what the body needs and how well we are meeting that need. Doesn’t this sound like something you would want for yourself in order to predict, with certainty, what is needed and wanted by the body to get you to the next stage of improved health?
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Why is the person who referred you feeling better?
Because we did a Energetic Nutritional Testing analysis for him or her, we found the “active” reflexes, and then made specific nutritional recommendations to help the body return to a improved state of health.
We are prepared to do the exact same thing for you now. Isn’t that exciting? However, the best is yet to come.
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What is the "Personalized Health Improvement Program"
Let’s say the liver or kidney reflexes are active. Then what?
Our next step is to test specific, time-tested and proven, highest-possible quality nutritional formulas against those weak areas, to find which ones bring the reflexes back to strength.
Our decades of clinical experience tell us that when we have found the correct nutritional supplements, as indicated by this procedure, and when we work out a highly personalized nutritional supplement schedule, we have accomplished the most important first step in correcting the underlying deficiency or imbalance that caused the reflex to be active in the first place. By following the program as precisely as possible, you are well on your way to restoring normal function and improving your health.
It’s that simple!
In medicine, the medical doctor makes a diagnosis and then uses drugs or surgery to attack or suppress the symptom, or to surgically remove the offending organ or part.
In Energetic Nutritional Testing we use "DESIGNED CLINICAL NUTRITION" to correct the cause of the problem, so that the body can regain the ability to correct itself.
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What exactly is DESIGNED CLINICAL NUTRITION?
First of all, Designed Clinical Nutrition is not "over-the-counter" vitamins. Over-the-counter vitamins are pharmaceutically engineered chemical fractions of vitamin structures reproduced in a laboratory. They are not "whole food," and the body does not actually recognize these as anything even vaguely beneficial (to put it mildly). Please ask about our audiotape: "The Whole Truth About Vitamins," for an entertaining, in-depth explanation of this aspect of vitamins and other nutritional supplements.
Because they are not made from whole foods, "over-the-counter" vitamins lack the essential synergistic elements normally present in WHOLE foods.
An example of a whole food could be carrots. Carrots are high in Vitamin A Complex. A "complex" is something made up of many different parts that work together. Synthetic vitamin A does not contain the whole "Vitamin A Complex" found in nature. So, if we were looking for a food high in Vitamin A, carrots might be one of our choices.
If one actually were deficient in any of the components of Vitamin A Complex, one would be wise to seek out a supplement that was made from whole foods that were rich in this complex - not from chemicals re-engineered in a laboratory to look like one little part of the Vitamin A Complex that has erroneously been labeled as "Vitamin A."
Vitamins that are being used all over today generally only need to have a small percentage of their actual content derived from natural sources to be labeled "natural". If they are not derived from whole foods, they often make you even more deficient and nutritionally out-of-balance. They can create other health problems because they do not contain all of the co-factors found in nature that make the vitamins work.
So-called "scientific research," done with these shoddy substitutes, repeatedly "proves" that vitamins don’t do much good for anyone! Can you imagine who pays for these "researches"?
"Designed Clinical Nutrition" is exactly that: designed (especially prepared based on a specific plan) clinical (pertaining to the results gotten in clinical use or actual practice on huge numbers of patients over many years) nutrition (real food, designed by nature to enable the body to repair itself and grow healthfully).
It is whole food in a tablet, capsule or powder, concentrated in a vacuum, cold-process system that preserves all of the active enzymes and vital components that make it work as the Creator intended. These real food supplements have been designed to match the needs of the body, as determined by the positive response shown when tested against the active Energetic Nutritional Testing reflexes that were found on your individual Energetic Nutritional Testing analysis. These are nutrients you are simply not getting, or not assimilating, in your current diet.
These deficiencies may be due to your past personal eating habits and routines, but it is for sure due, in some large extent, to the lack of quality in the foods commercially available in grocery stores or restaurants today.
How are these products produced?
One example of a designed clinical nutrition supplement that we use is called "Catalyn". This product is produced by starting with a wide variety of carefully chosen organically grown vegetables, taking the water and fiber out using a vacuum, low heat process - without heating or cooking the vegetables, and then utilizing the concentrated food to make a bottle of Standard Process Catalyn Tablets.
The key to this whole procedure is the way it is done, using the "Standard Process" method:
A. Standard Process nutrients are derived from plants grown on their own farms, in soil free of pesticides – and no chemicals are ever used. Ph.D.’s check the soil before the seeds are sown, to make sure of the fertility of the soil – and even the weeding is done by hand.
B. The machinery involved in the processing of these products is made of glass and stainless steel only.
C. The temperature used in processing harvested plants is never raised above the point of 90 degrees Fahrenheit, so that the active ingredients are not cooked; they remain active and alive, and have a very long shelf life.
Your vitality and energy is derived from live food. Most foods today are all dead - or are not really foods at all - as in boxed cereals, canned vegetables, soda pop, etc. You can readily understand the difference between dead, devitalized pseudo-foods, with the synthetic or isolated vitamins on the one hand, and "Designed Clinical Nutrition" and a diet of real foods, on the other.
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Is there a great deal of technology and know-how
behind what we do?
Having been designed through decades of clinical use on tens of thousands of patients, and on patients from many different types of health care practitioners, you can be assured that Energetic Nutritional Testing is capable of evaluating and solving your health concerns.
A complete Energetic Nutritional Testing analysis can be done on each patient on each subsequent visit, thereby revealing the next layers of dysfunction so these can also be addressed and corrected.
In this way, each patient gets a completely individualized handling, in the correct sequence for his or her body.
Very much like opening a combination lock, you must use the right numbers in the right sequence and in the right direction at the right time – then the lock falls open.
By following the correct sequence as revealed through Energetic Nutritional Testing, you don’t "shot-gun" your diet or supplements. With a correctly done Energetic Nutritional Testing analysis, we can determine the correct food supplements for you – designed to give your body the best possible chance of getting well and staying that way.
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