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11/24/2025
The holiday season is joyful, but it can also feel overwhelming. 🌲❄️ Packed schedules, family gatherings, and shorter days can leave us stressed out and feeling low energy. Fortunately, with a few intentional winter wellness strategies, we can not only learn to survive this busy time... but thrive.
👉Check out our blog to learn how you can embrace the beauty of the winter months while minimizing the challenges. Explore tips inspired by Chinese medicine, along with a few additional self-care ideas.
For the past few weeks, the number one complaint I’ve seen in the clinic has been a lack of energy.🪫 When a major complaint seems to be spread across my patients as a whole, I often wonder if there’s a bigger culprit at play.🤔
From a Chinese medicine perspective🌱, this shift is not just psychological — it’s deeply energetic. Autumn marks a turning point in nature’s cycle, and our bodies respond in kind.
As summer☀️ fades and the air turns crisp, many people notice their energy waning. You might feel a little slower, more introspective, or crave cozy foods🍜 instead of salads and smoothies.🥗
📖According to Healing with Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford, which is one of my favorite books, when we live in harmony with the seasons, our energy stays balanced and resilient. When we resist those natural rhythms — by eating, working, or living as if it were still summer — we can feel drained, ungrounded, or emotionally heavy.
Check out our newest blog for more information about why we feel less energy in the fall.
🍁www.rcwacupuncture.com/why-we-feel-less-energy-in-the-fall-according-to-chinese-medicine-and-healing-with-whole-foods/
09/25/2025
Despite its recent discovery in the United States, alpha-gal syndrome has affected thousands of peoples’ lives. Characterized by an allergy to red meat🥩, alpha-gal syndrome is believed to be caused by the bite of lone star ticks. Once bitten, a sugar molecule called alpha-gal enters the body. In a period of months, some people will experience mild to severe allergic reactions to red meat. Others appear to be virtually immune.
Although some over-the-counter antihistamine medications may reduce the symptoms of alpha-gal, there’s no official cure for the disease. However, a relatively new approach to acupuncture called Soliman Auricular Allergy Treatment has helped many people find true relief.✨
Interested in learning more? Check out our website for the latest about Alpha-Gal Syndrome symptoms, prevention, and treatment.
While acupuncture therapy has long since been a cornerstone of Chinese medicine🌿, for most of the West it still remains a somewhat mystifying form of pain relief.
That being said, alternative medicine in general is becoming more accepted within the medical community, as findings from controlled clinical trials continue to support it’s evidence-based therapeutic effects.✨
Based on evidence-based practice, acupuncture is commonly used to treat a wide range of conditions including:
☑️ Chronic pain
☑️ Allergies
☑️ Osteoarthritis
☑️ Headaches
☑️ Nausea
☑️ Menopausal symptoms..and much, much more...
🟠 Check out our blog to learn more about how acupuncture works!👉 www.rcwacupuncture.com/how-acupuncture-works/
07/22/2025
Cupping is one of the oldest methods used in traditional Chinese medicine.🌿 Though the exact origin is often debated, cupping was first documented in Egypt in one of the oldest medical textbooks known to date. It is now used widely throughout the world🌎, most notably by professional athletes and Hollywood stars alike, many of whom find cupping to be an integral part of their self-care.✨
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This saying holds so much truth in regards to our health and acupuncture. It is all too easy to get caught up in the go go go pace of life, frantically trying to get everything done in a day only to push our health and well being to the bottom of the list. Who has time to stretch anyway? Over time this mistreatment of the body builds up and one day you wake up sore and achy, stiff and slightly slower than the day before. You are stuck.
Not only are you stuck physically with pain or fatigue, but mentally you don’t think as clearly as you once did, your memory is not so sharp and it’s harder to complete tasks that were once easy. On the emotional side of health, the blah feeling sets in and watching tv or spending hours on social media is more enticing then a stimulating conversation with a loved one or a walk in the park. Again, you are stuck.
And don’t forget about your diet. As the pace of life quickens, concern for healthy food choices and proper eating habits gets lost to the wind. Energy is needed now and the solution is often found in energy drinks, caffeine, prepackaged meals and fast food. When this eating style is prominent, there is often a lack of nutrition, weight concerns and a disinterest in food. Stuck again.
So how do you get unstuck!
With holistic care and acupuncture of course! This is the first step of getting stuck to get unstuck. Acupuncture needles are placed strategically along meridians to rebalance and move the stuck energy. Using additional therapies of cupping, moxabustion and infrared promote circulation, freeing up the energy of the body and making you feel better.
Receiving holistic care at River City Wellness will offer an environment where growth and healing can occur alongside a deeper understanding on how the body works. There is special attention paid to both the physical and emotional body and how they relate to one another. Recommendations in lifestyle choices are given such as appropriate exercises, better food choices and ways to break poor habits. Overall awareness will be gained and you will be more in touch with what your body needs to make it feel better.
Compassionate care and an authentic desire to help others is at the root of River City Wellness and Acupuncture.
