Tag: oriental herbs

How Acupuncture can help with Infertility

by Healthy Green Acupuncture

Acupuncture has a high proven success rate to increase fertility in woman.  With acupuncture and herbal teas its given those who’ve been trying for a long time a greater chance in starting a family they’ve always hoped and dreamed for.

Traditional Chinese Medicine has been around for thousand of years, dating back to 3,500 B.C., with the insertion of tiny needles it increases the blood and Qi flow in your body.  Acupuncture along with herbs aids in the hormones and chemicals released in your body helping your body to heal itself bringing your body back to equilibrium.  It improves blood flow to the ovaries and uterine arteries to build a stronger uterine lining.  Also helps endorphin, pituitary, and ovarian hormone levels that helps regulate ovulation.

Acupuncture sessions usually involves 12 treatments along with herbal teas that will greatly improve your chances of conceiving.

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Sleep Apnea anyone?

by Healthy Green Acupuncture

What’s this sleep apnea?  You may wonder what it is, seen it on tv commercials for drugs that promises to cure you of it but later on there are repercussions to the temporary relief that drug offered to you.   There is alternative & safer method to treat each condition that you’ll gain in the long run.

Sleep apnea is a condition that disrupts the body’s breathing during sleep.  It’s a potentially serious sleep disorder that causes your body’s breathing to repeatedly stop & start.  It affects anyone, but usually affects males over the age of forty.  You may have sleep apnea if you snore loudly & feel tired even though you’ve have a full night’s sleep, daytime sleepiness & fatigue, reduced mental abilities including memory & thinking clearly.

There’s 3 types: Obstructive sleep apnea (most common where the throat muscles relax) & Central sleep apnea (occurs in your brain when it doesn’t send proper signals to the muscles that control breathing.)  Complex sleep apnea, that’s a little bit of both.

Condition of sleep apnea is associated with other medical conditions that may include: Obesity, stroke, cardiovascular (heart problems), impotence, increased blood pressure.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), it’s categorized as phlegm-dampness.  Acupuncture treatment would be tailored to person’s body, to clear out phlegm-damp as well as balancing the body’s sleep mechanisms.

Chinese herbs may also be prescribed that can help increase the effects of acupuncture treatments.

Additionally, simple lifestyle alterations are suggested such as subtracting specific foods from diet, increasing light excercises, or mild meditation to decrease stress.

Hope today’s topics gives a bit more insight on what sleep apnea is & how Traditional Chinese Medicine can help!