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Acupuncturist Chapel Hill, NC

Each element in Chinese Medicine relates to specific body areas and organs in each person. Additionally, there are emotions and seasons and other aspects that relate to one another. The element of wood connects the regions described below. Connected components tend to be out of harmony together and are diagnostic tools in Chinese medicine; treatment aimed at restoring balance in elemental areas is healing on many levels and improves overall cures response and rate. Read more to learn how wood channel imbalance in Chinese medicine relates to your health.

Spring is the season of wood and sour is the flavor. The yin organ is the liver; the yang organ is the gallbladder, the color is green; the opening in the eyes. Emotions related to the wood element include frustration and anger; creativity is a strength of wood. Body regions which relate to the wood element include the lateral foot, leg, hip, torso to the head and outer canthus, as well as the medial foot, leg, groin to the nipple.

Wood Channel Imbalance in Chinese Medicine

A Chinese medicine practitioner, such as Dr. Lisa Oskardmay at Acupractic Natural Healing Center in Chapel Hill, NC, will review each of these areas as well as other internally connected regions as keys to the health and balance of the wood channel. If you have hip pain or shoulder pain, she will examine the muscles and ligaments of these areas. She will ask about the other areas connected to the wood channel including the presence or absence of anger and frustration, for instance, or the predilection or total avoidance of the sour flavor in your diet. History and the personal story of each patient will reveal the times of the year and the times of day which affect you most as these, too, will indicate balance in the wood channels and other elements.

Dr. Oskardmay will discuss treatment with you before doing anything. Treatment will include the insertion of acupuncture needles at specific acupoints to balance meridians or energy channels. Acupoints found mainly on the sides of the four limbs, the head, and ear, as well as the mid-torso and even on the back relate to the wood channel. Following needle insertion, you will rest comfortably for 20″ or so; your practitioner will manually stimulate the needles midsession, and you will relax and meditate a bit more. Sometimes electro-stimulation is applied to some of the points to change the effect. Involved and connected muscles are massaged and potentially deep tissue massage and healing ointments are applied where needed, which primarily benefits the wood channel because it resonates with the muscles and ligaments of the body.

The Chinese medicine acupuncture perspective on healing reflects another, more holistic alternative to health improvement than avenues to healing provided in western medicine clinics. It is not ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ to use alternative medicine. Alternative medicine has helped thousands of people make sense of and effectively treat pain in the areas supplied by and connected to the wood channel and the other channel areas of the body and mind. If you have hip, back or shoulder pain and want to use acupuncture, you have made a good choice.

Please use this resource to help you understand how acupuncture can help you and remember to keep your appointments to get the most benefit from care. Call us today at (919) 929-1400, email us at schedule@acudocnc.com or visit our website at acudocnc.com to schedule your appointment today.

Acupuncturist Chapel Hill, NC

Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture also goes by the name of Facial Revitalization Therapy and Cosmetic Acupuncture. This holistic therapy aims to improve facial appearance and project a more youthful presence overall by working on many levels inside and out. The beauty ideal is actualized more completely by using acupuncture methodology in a way that western medicine, with its dependence on makeup and surgical techniques, does not use.

What is Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture?

Facial rejuvenation acupuncture is considered a branch of Chinese medicine – associated beyond its original goal of simply healing the body and mind. People have sought beauty and longevity from the beginning of human history; recently it has been discovered how older cultures achieved this elusive goal. To reduce the signs of aging we can now use acupuncture to get a deeper, more profound treatment that affects more than just the face in our quest for beauty.50,000 years ago in China, youthful beauty pursued by the queen and concubines was achieved using makeup similar to what we use in modern-times, but also using acupuncture to stimulate good looks from good health within. Acupuncture stimulates the movement of qi, blood, and fluids to bring a healthful glow to the face and entire body.

Differential acupuncture channel diagnosis involving personal history and, physical exam of the body, tongue and pulse identifies blocked channels so that the acupuncturist can focus on specific pathways to support and balance. Balance between yin and yang, the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water), and the zang-fu (organs) can be achieved using various acupuncture techniques to give long-lasting beauty and improved health. Glowing skin and radiant energy help manifest what is beautiful about the person.

Acupuncture Facial Rejuvenation Treatment

Acupuncture facial rejuvenation treatment involves placement of very fine filaments needles in the face and body points. Your acupuncturist generally uses only the thinnest and smoothest Seirin filaments as the points associated with this treatment are very sensitive. The client is then instructed to relax on a comfortable table with lowered lights and warmth if requested. This relaxing therapy brings contentment to the senses, warmth to cold areas, cooling to inflamed areas, movement to stagnation and stillness to turbulent regions. Gentle oils may be massaged into the skin to stimulate qi and create a glowing appearance. The client may be left to meditate for 20-30″ or so as the treatment penetrates deeply. Following an acupuncture revitalization treatment, the client is able to resume normal activities immediately.

Experience the transformative effects of facial rejuvenation acupuncture by calling our office today to schedule an appointment for facial rejuvenation acupuncture: 919-929-1400, email schedule@acudocnc.com or go online to schedule 24 hours a day: acudocnc.com.

Acupuncturist Chapel Hill, NC

Acupuncture is a gentle treatment that balances mental and physical energies and allows the body-mind to heal naturally. Perfect for persons experiencing anxiety and other disorders, licensed acupuncturist Dr. Oskardmay uses acupuncture therapy and relaxing massage and other techniques to help patients in need of healing, but who may want to shy away from standard drug regimens. Chinese Medicine acupuncture is a healthy option that has helped millions of people worldwide find suffering from anxiety, depression, and other conditions. See how this ancient therapy can bring you the relief you need.

At Acupractic Natural Healing Center and Acupuncture at Eastowne, LLC, in Chapel Hill, NC, acupuncture treatment is available to those who need it safely and effectively. Dr. Oskardmay has provided natural healing alternatives, including acupuncture, chiropractic, and massage to Triangle residents since 1995. These time-tested treatment methods support individual well being and enhance each person’s ability to heal naturally, without drug or surgical interventions. Chinese medicine emphasizes the innate healing potential in each person. Acupuncture treatment balances each body’s crucial yin and yang energetics, bringing relaxation and calming stress and anxiety naturally.

What is Acupuncture?

Acupuncture is a meridian based healing method that relies on understanding the flow of healing energy in each person and how that energy gets stuck and where blockages to healing exist. Like nerve energy flow along nerves and blood flow in arteries and veins, qi energy flows in channels or meridians. Blocked energy flow manifests as mental confusion, organic disease, muscle trigger points, pain, or numbness. Acupuncturists like Dr. Oskardmay utilize small needles inserted along meridian acupoints to restore qi flow. The result is relaxed healing and reduced anxiety.

Anxiety afflicts many people in times of stress and can impair sleep, digestion, and mental clarity. Dr. Oskardmay begins each healing session with an examination to determine where energy stagnation and channel disruption exists to cause anxiety or other disorders. Acupuncture examination includes history taking, palpation of specific areas of pain or discomfort, pulse taking, and other aspects. Dr. Oskardmay creates a healing program unique to each patient with acupuncture point stimulation as the central component to balance qi flow along meridians and reduce stress and anxiety. She will incorporate massage techniques such as cupping, transverse friction massage, and percussive massage to reduce stagnation in irritated tissues and enhance healing blood flow to deprived areas.

As part of each treatment, Dr. Oskardmay educates each person regarding exercises and other ADL they can do on their own at home to improve their health naturally. The patient can review many of these activities on the office you-tube channel. Additionally, she will help patients understand the role of nutrition-related to body-mind health and make suggestions regarding local foods to incorporate to enhance well being and reduce anxiety.

Dr. Oskardmay understands that stress and anxiety are at an all-time high right now because of the pandemic. She is here for each person, whether they can come into the office or require telemedicine appointments. We maintain sanitized, safe conditions, and social distancing in our office and provide masks for all who need them.

Call us today at (919) 929-1400, email us at schedule@acudocnc.com or schedule online at acudocnc.com anytime to reduce stress and anxiety and get the healing you deserve. We offer self-pay discounts, accept your HSA or FSA and participate with and submit claims electronically for you to most major insurance plans, including BCBS State and Federal, United Healthcare, Cigna, Aetna, Medicare, and others. Helping people of the Triangle since 1995, we look forward to helping you, too. If you are suffering from stress and anxiety, acupuncture treatment at Acupractic Natural Healing Center in Chapel Hill can help.

Acupuncturist Chapel Hill, NC

Chinese medicine acupuncture interprets the human experience poetically- health and disease reflect body energy that moves through us as a subjective experience. We can choose to guide the different aspects of this vital, non-dismissable lifeforce. As an acupuncturist Chapel Hill, NC trusts, Dr. Lisa Oskardmay helps patients make sense of ever-changing ebbs and qi flows as it passes through channels in and on our bodies. She uses acupuncture needles, massage, and other treatment methods to redirect flow where needed and reduce stagnation that impedes healing energy flow.

In Rumi’s poem ‘The Guest House,’ the author describes life inside each of us to reflect the energies of this world.

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.Meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes.Because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

— Jellaludin Rumi,

Rumi’s description of the human being as a guest house shows the transient movement of energies that pass through daily, weekly, and annually, invigorating us throughout our lives. The poem’s author points out that, though momentary, each energy or `guest` adds value to our existence. Chinese medicine sees the human condition as full of energy that has value and a function. At our office, Dr. Oskardmay strives to improve and guide meridian transmission so that the body can learn and heal itself.

Energy is an interesting word- it has many manifestations. It is electricity and rushing water, and it is blood flow and nerve impulse transmission. It is happiness and sadness, terror and grief- and many other things. We are the embodiment of many aspects of this energy, which invigorates and motivates us. Our physical presence, our pain, and our emotional milieu all reflect the strength in us. We owe it to ourselves to pay attention to and respect the messages we receive from our physical pain, feelings, and intuitions. When we cover up the pain with pain pills or other addictions, we are not fully living. When we ignore our emotions and hide our feelings, we shirk the duty we have to ourselves and this world to experience and learn from this world.

At Acupractic Natural Healing Center, the chiropractic and acupuncture offices of Dr. Lisa Oskardmay in Chapel Hill, we use non-drug healing methods that restore the body’s ability to heal itself. We respect the healing potential you bring to your own experience.

Acupuncture Chapel Hill, NC

Insomnia plagues numerous people from all walks of life. The cause of sleep trouble varies from

individual to individual, but the result is the same- lack of restorative sleep. Shut-eye deprivation has far-reaching implications and causes serious health issues. Acupuncture treatment at Acupractic Natural Healing Center helps because it supports the balance of yin and yang- the two vital energies that co-exist in each person. Yin is the body’s evening energy system, and yang is more energetic during the daylight hours. When yin and yang are in balance, a person can function during the day and rest at night. Acupuncture helps restore beneficial sleep because acupuncturists balance yin and yang by using ancient methods of acupuncture Chapel Hill, NC locals recommend.

Dr. Oskardmay is a licensed healthcare professional who treats insomnia and other sleep concerns, as well as pain and other conditions. Using small sterile acupuncture filaments or massage, she stimulates meridian channel flow and releases blockages to the body’s energy flow. Qi flow is body energy that appears to each of us as blood flow, nerve conductivity, digestive movements, and others. Every aspect of our being has qi flow, and Dr. Oskardmay understands and uses this ancient knowledge to heal people on many levels, including sleep. Treatment is gentle and pain-free, and soothes the mind.

The average person needs between 7 and 9 hours of restful sleep a night to function. About 65% of us get that amount; however, the rest function on less. In the short term, insomnia causes a lack of mental clarity and confusion during the day and decreased body strength and physical performance. Chinese Medicine and acupuncture recognize the essential nature of sleep, and Dr. Oskardmay strives to help people achieve adequate sleep without drugs or other medications. Over time, the lack of healthy sleep contributes to severe health conditions, including obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Adequate restful sleep is crucial to our well being.

By restoring normal healthy yin and yang balance, acupuncture treatment at our office supports sound sleep. Yin and yang relate to the autonomic nervous system- the neuronal network in each person that controls automatic responses to everything internal and external. Yin refers to the parasympathetic nervous system’s role in our body- sleep, digestion, relaxation, and healing. The body will allow these parasympathetic actions when there is adequate yin energy. Alternately, yang relates to the sympathetic nervous system, which corresponds to fight-or-flight activities that take power away from sleep and other aspects: stress and extreme exercise cause yang to rise and the sympathetic nervous system to assume control. Acupuncturists can help patients understand the vital connection of yin and yang inside each of us and how to make changes that improve the needed balance to improve sleep and other actions.

In addition to providing acupuncture and massage treatment in the office, Dr. Oskardmay helps patients understand how to achieve better sleep control at home. For instance, to enhance yin, one must support sleepfulness and relaxation. This might include shutting off lights at night, avoiding overstimulating the senses in the evening such as imposed by television news or the like, and not overeating in the evening. Additionally, it is vital to building yin by establishing regular healthy habits because this reduces stress. Normal healthy habits include going to bed and awakening at approximately the same time each day, striving to get 7-8 hours of restful sleep a night, and avoiding overstimulation, especially in the evenings.

We are here for you at the acupuncture and chiropractic offices of Dr. Lisa Oskardmay. Call Acupractic or visit us online today to schedule your wellness visit.