Dr. Chen's Acupuncture P.C.

Acupuncture is the insertion of fine needles into the body at specific points shown as effective in the treament of specific health problems.  These points have been mapped by the Chinese over a period of two thousand years.  Recently, electromagnetic research has confirm their locations.

The best practice among acupuncturists in America today is to use sterilized, individually packaged, disposable needles.  Needles should not be saved and reused for later treatments.  This eliminates the possibility of transmitting a communicable disease by a contaminated needle.

Modern Western medicine cannot explain how acupuncture works.  Traditional acupuncture is based on ancient Chinese theories of the flow of Qi (Energy) and Xue (Blood) through distinct meridians or pathways that cover the body somewhat like the nerves and blood vessels do.  According to ancient theory, acupuncture allows Qi to flow to areas where it is Deficient and away from where it is Excess.  In this way, acupuncture regulates and restores the harmonious energetic balance of the body.  In Chinese there is a saying. "There is no pain if there free flow, if there is pain, there is no free flow."

Yes, there are.  Acupuncture originated in China but has spread to Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Europe, the British Isles, and America.  In different countries, different styles have developed based on differing opinions as to theory and technique.  Patients should talk to their practitioners about their particular style and learn as much as possible about the treatment being proposed.

Your practitioner will explain the nature of your problem and what treatment he or she is recommending.  Your practitioner will tell you what benefits and risks there are to the proposed treatment, what other treatment options are available to you through this practitioner or by referral to another practitioner or physician.

That depends upon the duration, severity, and nature of your complaint.  You may need only a single treatment for an acute condition.  A series of five to fifteen treatments may resolve many chronic problems.  Some degenerative conditions may require many treatments over time.

Western folk herbalism primarily treats diseases or symptoms, such as headaches, runny nose, menstrual pain, ect. Chinese herbal medicine, when practiced as a part of TCM(Traditional Chinese Medicine), is based on an individualized pattern diagnosis as well as a disease diagnosis.  Your pattern is made up of your signs and symptoms, your emotioal temperament and the overall composition of your body.

The TCM patient receives a custom written herbal prescription designed to treat threir individual pattern as well as the symptom or disease.

Chinese herbal medicine may include vegetable, animal, and mineral ingredients, however, the majority of ingredients are from vegetable sources.  Leaves, flowers, twigs, stems, roots, tubers, rhizomes, and bark are among the parts of the vegetable used.

The Chinese adopted and incorporated herbs from all over the world.  Fifteen to twenty percent of the 500 ingredients considered standard originated from outside China.  What makes these "Chinese" herbs is that they are prescribed according to Chinese medical theory and a TCM pattern diagnosis.

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