Treatments
What does acupuncture and Tui Na massage treatment entail?
In order to achieve an optimal result per treatment, I will take an anamnesis during the first treatment according to the principles of Chinese Medicine. This means that I will map out your complaints and ask a number of additional diagnostic questions. In addition, I will perform a pulse and tongue diagnosis in order to obtain a complete picture of the initial situation. I will then determine which form of therapy best suits your complaints. This could be acupuncture, Tui Na massage or a combination of massage and acupuncture. I will also see whether it is useful to use additional techniques such as moxa, gua sha or cupping. Advice or tips about nutrition, exercise, breathing or lifestyle can be part of the treatment.
Each follow-up visit is preceded by a short evaluation of the previous treatment and a pulse and tongue diagnosis. The treatment can be adjusted based on this input.
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Acupuncture works complaint-oriented and preventative
A well-known saying from Chinese medicine is that the best doctor cures a disease that has not yet appeared. That may seem like a strange statement, but it is not if you know that Chinese medicine specializes in recognizing signals of balance and imbalance in the human organism. It is also said that Chinese medicine is focused on prevention. What this means, in my opinion, is that signals of imbalance are recognized at an early stage. The imbalance in the organism can then be restored before it manifests itself in more serious complaints.
By using the knowledge of Chinese medicine preventively, we follow in the footsteps of the ancient Chinese village doctors, who went door to door at the change of seasons to feel people’s pulse. These “barefoot doctors”, as they are also affectionately called, then treated people with acupuncture, herbs and by giving advice to prevent them from getting sick. There are even rumors that people only got paid as long as the population that belonged to the care area of a doctor remained healthy.
In practice De Witte Os, we work complaint-oriented, but there are more and more people who are interested in periodic preventive treatment. Think of strengthening resistance, more energy, dealing more harmoniously with feelings of fear, frustration or sadness, irregular bowel movements, menstrual complaints, migraine, poor sleep, acne, nagging lower back pain, melancholy, itchy eyes, etc., etc.
What is a pulse diagnosis?
Feeling the pulse goes beyond ‘just feeling the pulse’. By accurately measuring the tension, width, depth and speed of the pulse, we learn a lot about the amount and quality of energy in the various organs.
What is a tongue diagnosis?
A tongue also provides a lot of diagnostic information. It is checked whether there is a lot or little deposit, what the color of the tongue and the deposit is, whether there are cracks or pimples, what the shape is and the moisture. The request is therefore not to scrape the tongue prior to treatment.
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