What Can Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Treat?

Posted on November 12, 2008 by eresko

What can Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Treat?

Here is a list of some general disorders that Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine can treat.  This is just an broad introduction, later on I hope to get more involved in explaining what and how these disorders can be treated, but for now I just wanted to give you an idea of the scope of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine.

  • Gastrointestinal disorders
  • Gynecological disorders
  • Pregnancy-related complaints
  • Respiratory disorders
  • Disorders of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints
  • Circulatory disorders
  • Urogenital disorders
  • Disorders of the Nervous System
  • Immune disorders
  • Emotional and Psychological disorders
  • Sleep and Stress disorder

          If you have any specific questions or would like to find out more information on a specific disorder and how Chinese Medicine may be able to help, please let me know and I will do my best to answer your questions.  This will give me an opportunity to get into some research, and learn about something that I may not otherwise know about.  I hope to hear from you all soon!

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What is Acupuncture?

Posted on November 7, 2008 by eresko

 

What is Acupuncture?

 

As a student of Acupuncture it will be hard to define what exactly it is in one paragraph, a better way to explain would be to actually invite you to sit in on my classes and read my textbooks with me, so we’ll settle with this for now.  One thing I can tell you is that in the context of discussing the topic you will find that it most always ends with somebody talking about how they got Acupuncture once or they know somebody who has and they had amazing results with it.  One of the purposes of this Blog is to share with you information on what Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine is, how it works, how it can help you and answer any other questions that you may be wondering about, and throughout the lifetime of this Blog I intend to do just that.  So I welcome your questions, your comments and any suggestions that you may have along the way!    

  

So for now my answer to the question is this:

 

Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese Medicine practice that originated over five thousand years ago.  The practitioner bases his/her treatment on a holistic overview of the patient, i.e. symptomatic patterns, relationships, environmental factors, emotional factors, life experiences, diet and nutrition and overall body and life dynamics that the practitioner can observe and obtain from discussion with the patient.   Very thin needles are used as tools to essentially tap into a set of channels or meridians that run like a highway system through our bodies.  These meridians are each interconnected to internal organs and specific organ pathways, and within these channels flows Qi, an energetic substance that can be defined as “life force”.  Each meridian contains a series of points; and when stimulated, each serves their own significant purpose.  Generally speaking, by manipulating the needles, one can rebalance the energy flow (Qi) and therefore, rebalance the body restoring health. 

 

If you are interested in reading more about Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, here are a couple of books that I recommend:

 

The Web That Has No Weaver

Between Heaven and Earth

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Hello World!

Posted on November 5, 2008 by eresko

Erin022My name is Erin Resko and I have just begun my first year in the Master’s Program at The Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM), in Portland, OR.  I received my BS at The University of Colorado at Boulder in Boulder, CO in Integrative Physiology, and have spent the past few years in my hometown of Sun Valley, ID.  I am an avid athlete and my vision is to take that with me in my practice and focus on utilizing Acupuncture, massage and Oriental Medicine in the Sports Medicine realm.  I decided to set up this blog as a way to share my ideas, and my knowledge with you throughout my journey.

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