West Meets East Acupuncture LLC

09/23/2022

We are officially in a heavy use time for cupping..

If you love cupping like us, (or have seen our posts) you’re probably well aware of its benefits but have you explored all 5 types? That’s right - there are FIVE different types of cupping! 🤯 Let’s break it down 🤗:

Dry:
☑️ Cups applied after heated or held next to a flame
☑️ Most common

Fire 🔥:
☑️ An alcohol-soaked cotton ball, herbs, or other flammable substance is lit on fire inside the cup before being applied
☑️ Best for soft tissue injuries

Silicone:
☑️ Silicone, flexible cups are squeezed to apply via suction
☑️ Reduces or eliminates bruising

Wet 🌊:
☑️ Involves applying heat, applying cups, removing them, making small incisions, and reapplying within minutes
☑️ Best for detox

Massage:
☑️ Cups are applied then glided over the area while attached via suction
☑️ Best for chronic pain

Needle:
☑️ Cups are placed over inserted acupuncture needles
☑️ Amplifies healing effects

What’s your favorite technique? 🤔

09/23/2022

06/20/2022

Replicating heart tissue & more. Light & sound will be tools used more frequently to heal.

Researchers use sound and acoustics to advance health research.

06/14/2022

Well-being check includes healthy diet!

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05/25/2022

Important finding…

05/02/2022

Simple & effective addition to older adult daily regimen.

Objective: The aim of this study was to test the individual and combined benefit of vitamin D, omega-3, and a simple home strength exercise program on the risk of any invasive cancer.Design: The DO-HEALTH trial is a three-year, multicenter, 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design double-blind, randomized-contr...

04/29/2022

Cells repair themselves when we sleep!

Seven hours is the ideal amount of sleep for people in their middle age and upwards, with too little or too much little sleep associated with poorer cognitive performance and mental health, say researchers from the University of Cambridge and Fudan University.

04/14/2022

Good antihistamine agent for this allergy season as well as immune enhancing function!

Quercetin - what every acupuncturist and every one of your patients need to know about this rising supplement star: https://www.acupuncturetoday.com/digital/index.php?i=771&Page=45

03/22/2022

5 sessions to reduced anxiety; 10 sessions to next level of relief.

📣 Both acupuncture and electroacupuncture have a similar effectiveness on reducing anxiety levels;

📑 NEW post on the EBA Forum (including the full list of acupuncture points used for both groups: Acu and EA) 👍 Join the discussion:
🔗 https://www.evidencebasedacupuncture.org/forum/

👉 ...only 5 sessions are needed to reduce anxiety to a lower degree, however, until the 10th session the anxiety levels continue to decrease.

03/18/2022

Sensory reactivation after memory reorganization seems like a preferred path forward!

📣 Coupling traumatic memory retrieval leading to reconsolidation, combined with acupuncture, offers considerable potential for positive clinical improvement in patients with PTSD.

Full paper and discussion on the EBA Forum 🔗 https://www.evidencebasedacupuncture.org/forum/

Research shows that acupuncture can have potentially positive effects at three levels:

(a) achieving a balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic neural activity;

(b) reducing activation in the limbic system, hence inducing a calming effect;

(c) reshaping the functional connectivity map within important and relevant cortical regions that encompass the default-mode network.