What to Expect in Treatment

After we discuss your specific condition, health aspirations, and treatment expectations, I take your pulse, look at your tongue, and palpate the abdomen, chest and neck, to ascertain a diagnosis. I look for pressure pain on these areas. Different areas on the body reflect different problems and different root imbalances. Finding these areas of pressure pain, and correlating those with pulse findings, enable me to diagnose your condition and determine what points to use. I then find the exact spots on the arms and legs that release the pressure pain on the abdomen, and those are the points that are needled. Once the abdominal reflexes (pressure points) are cleared, you will fall into a deep state of relaxation lasting about 20 minutes. A similar process is then repeated on the back.
In addition to needles, I may also use moxibustion, which is the warming of points with a special herb, or a variety of other non-needle techniques.