The financial crisis is noted in almost all sectors, including acupuncturists are starting to notice it. It is now necessary to find new patients quickly. If we analyze carefully the economic downturn, we will realize that, as practitioners of alternative therapies, we should look not affected by the crisis. In times of “bad economy,” our patients and their families and friends can suffer not only financial problems but also physical and emotional. Knowing what we know of acupuncture and Chinese medicine is a good time to be a professional in the MTC. Why? It is very simple. Our job is to make people feel better. They taught us to treat physical and emotional problems. Today there is a high degree of emotional stress that manifests itself physically through pain. The emotional failure is occurring widespread emergence of new disorders, for which we have a solution. So why are not people queuing in front of your clinic? Good question. First, the perception people have of acupuncture is that it serves primarily to treat pain. Most people do not know that acupuncture calms, relaxes and helps to overcome these difficult times. People are not familiar with the great emotional support that acupuncture can offer. It is therefore very important to change this paradigm, and no better way than through the benefits offered by the Ear Shen Men Point Zero and HN-3 extra point. That’s why I started with acupuncture “Happy Hour”. These sessions consist of treatments in small groups Ear 15 €. I started doing it for two reasons: (more…)
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Why Acupuncture of Choice?
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Benefits of shiatsu therapy
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
For people who like to take care of day to day, it is important to know the balance and beauty techniques to feel forever young alternatives both inside and out.
There are many types of therapies with which you get to take care of the most enjoyable and relaxing.
The Shiatsu, for example, is a technique from Japan that is founded on the basis of traditional Chinese medicine. The purpose of this is finding the balance between our physical and mental part through good pipeline of our body energy charge.
The freezing of some part of the energy channels of our body leads to failures that can cause numerous diseases.
The technique is based on pressure points similar to acupuncture, except needles. To this end we use from the fingertips to the knees and elbows.
The Shiatsu is beneficial for problems from migraines, frigidity, stress, sciatica, lumbago, colon, apart from balancing our emotions and reduce pain. (more…)
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How to activate the body’s vital energy
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
Metamorphic massage, a technique that aims to reactivate the body’s vital energy. It is based on self-healing and that the body has a vital impulse that is what gives you strength and health to the body. This massage works on the memory cell to the point of returning to prenatal life through massage of the feet, hands and head.
Metamorphic Massage Therapy also called Prenatal and Metamorphosis, was created by Robert St. John, reflexologist and naturopath English, who discovered a psychological map of the human being which is reflected in the foot. The two most important reference discovered by St. John are the “father” and the “mother.”
Phalangeal joint in the big toe is located the “zone of the Father” which is what is linked to the time of formation of the first cell embryo at the beginning of the cervical spine. The place of the “healthy mother is the one in the Achilles tendon and heel edges.
This type of massage works on a temporal plane beyond the symptoms of the disease in particular, and is most effective when we do this massage someone emotionally attached to us. When parents give their children this massage to connect with the true life force. (more…)
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Uses dance and music as therapy
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
womb? Regardless of the life we lead sedentary, fast-paced, there is a common denominator in the lives of many of the urban population, and is composed of several ingredients: the heavy reliance, the constant pressures, the need to master time , leaving us empty of energy imbalance, a device that broadcasts the music that would achieve if it were alone. we can say that belly dancing can help in finding the lost balance , and it contributes to the awareness of basic body mechanics, especially those in the center of gravity and body’s life force (which is what more you work in traditional belly dancing); fundamental process to achieve self-knowledge that we need to function in society.
Training belly dance affects other parts of the body, strengthening the muscles of the abdomen, lower back and pelvis in particular. On the other hand, the dance coordinates the muscles and nerves with the mind. When the ear hears the music calms the body appears and fuses with the melody or rhythm triggers a very pleasant feeling we might call happiness. In fact, medicine currently uses dance and music as therapy, and although the dance is not able to cure many psychological or psychiatric diseases, helps to cure depression, nervousness and neurosis, diseases common in our times. we can enumerate some of the emotional benefits of belly dancing practice:
Breakouts. It causes the release physical, psychological and mental induces generate changes in attitudes, and feel more secure about life. (more…)
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Shiatsu as a Type of Massage Therapy
Sunday, April 11th, 2010Similar to acupuncture, this type of massage therapy is based on the holistic system of traditional Chinese medicine because those who practice it believe that a person is not feeling well due to imbalances in the life force which flows through the meridians.
To fix this, the masseuse uses her fingers and palms, pressing energy pathways, called meridians to improve the vital energy.
Scientists have another explanation for this, saying that Shiatsu calms an overactive sympathetic nervous system. In doing so, helps improve blood circulation, relieve stiffness of muscles and relieves stress.
Shiatsu To be effective, the massage therapist who performs, you have to put pressure on a continuous rhythmic sequence. Unlike other types of massage therapy, the pressure feels more localized some points for best results. If at any time you feel pain, you should tell the therapist to adjust pressure and that is comfortable for you. (more…)
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Acupuncture to Treat Depression During Pregnancy
Thursday, April 8th, 2010More often hear talk of postpartum depression, but less is known about prenatal depression syndrome, which affects approximately 10% of pregnant women. Treatment methods are sought safe for the fetus and has been found that acupuncture can treat depression in pregnancy.
Depression in pregnancy is as important as postpartum depression and the mother’s emotions negatively affect the baby during pregnancy.
The power would help combat well as acupuncture, the ancient Chinese therapy technique that involves sticking thin needles through the body for healing purposes.
The Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona, U.S., conducted a study with 150 women suffering from severe depression during pregnancy. One third of these were treated with acupuncture specific for depression, another general acupuncture and massage and acupuncture another general. (more…)
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Saccharin, Aspartame or Cyclamate
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010For various reasons there are women who live “on a diet” most of my life that have eliminated sugar from your diet in favor of artificial sweeteners (saccharin, aspartame or cyclamate).
Others however do not use them, but when pregnant and go to regular visits with the obstetrician or midwife that the subject of weight, often giving more importance than it has, and just feeling the need to control a bit what you eat to prevent weight gain more.
In this need appears one of the easiest substitutions to perform: changing the sugar and saccharin. However, being pregnant, what is better?
The answer is simple and does not need too many rodeos: sugar is better because artificial sweeteners cross the placenta during pregnancy can harm the fetus.
Aspartame
Aspartame raised doubts, as there are experts who advise against its use has not been proved safe and experts, also has not been proved unsafe, do not prohibit it entirely, ensuring that, if consumed in moderation, appears to be safe during the pregnancy. (more…)
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History and Types Masage
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Touching is a basic human experience: touching, hugging, shaking hands and kissing up a fraction of the repertoire of tactile contact has our species. Whether to insult, expressing affection or repression, the sense of touch provides us with a broad form of communication that goes from the deepest recesses of human beings as sexual contact, even the most social or comforting as massage.
For reasons of stress, muscle pain or other discomfort, massage is becoming increasingly popular. From those that cause pain to those who do not even touch the body with the same objective: to feel good.
Without falling into the purely private or its opposite, massage involve different social ranks and their use can be focused to eliminate discomfort left by the extra effort in a sport, back pain or to stimulate your partner sexually. (more…)
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What is Hepatitis B?
Thursday, April 1st, 2010What is hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B, known as HBV (hepatitis B virus) is a virus that infects the liver (the liver helps to digest food and keeps the blood healthy.) He is currently the only STD that is preventable with a vaccine.
Who can get Hepatitis B?
Anyone can get hepatitis B. People who have unprotected sex or injecting drug users are more likely to get hepatitis B.
How is Hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B can live in all body fluids, but is mainly transmitted through blood, semen and vaginal fluids. The virus can also live in body fluids such as saliva, tears and breast milk. It is possible to become infected in the following ways:
* Having sex (vaginal, anal or oral) with an infected person
* Sharing personal items like razors, toothbrushes and nail clippers with an infected person
* Sharing needles to inject drugs with an infected person
* Using non-sterile needles or equipment for tattooing, piercing the ears to wear earrings, or apply acupuncture
* A mother infected with hepatitis B can also pass the virus to her baby during childbirth. (more…)
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