Why Acupuncture?

You have arrived at this point in your life when you want to find an answer but you don't know what question to ask, when you feel that something needs to change within you, but you don't know where and how to start.

Why do we get angry when we don't want to appear vulnerable, why do we laugh inappropriately when we feel uncomfortable, why do we deny grief when all we want is to burst into tears, why do we reject help when we desperately are in need of one?

Why do certain emotions rule our lives?

As nature is governed by The Five Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, so does the man have within him the qualities of these elements.

The emotions associated with Five Elements are:

• Fire - expression of Joy 
• Earth - needs sympathy 
• Metal - expression of Grief; inability to let go
• Water - expression of Fear
• Wood - manifestation of Anger

In Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture, the primary imbalance that someone presents is called Constitutional Factor.

For instance, someone who feels angry all the time has the Element Wood in imbalance that needs to be addressed, because this causes all the other Elements to suffer; many of the most dramatic and profound changes that patients can experience are achieved by focusing the treatment on it.

The organs themselves may also become diseased if the person is affected by an intense and long standing emotion. 

Repressed emotions are a secondary cause of disease in Chinese Medicine and the Five Element practitioner will  treat both the person's spirit, as well as the physical complaints.