ACUPUNCTURE NEW ROCHELLE
Services and Fees
John Wahnish, L.Ac. offers the full range of treatments from the Chinese medical system. He will carefully select from these various treatment methods and choose the correct combination to be used for your exact health condition.
Call to schedule an Acupuncture session in his New Rochelle office.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture
is one of the modalities of Chinese Medicine. Fine needles
inserted into the body at specific points have shown to be
effective in the treatment of specific health conditions.
In the past three decades, electromagnetic research has confirmed the existence and location of these points. Acupuncture stimulates your body's natural healing processes.
One type of acupuncture commonly performed is ear acupuncture. The theory is that since the ear has a rich nerve and blood supply, it would have connections all over the body. For this reason, the ear has many acupuncture points, which correspond to many parts and organs of the body. Auricular acupuncture has been successful in treating problems ranging from obesity to alcoholism to drug addiction.
Chinese Herbology
Herbal
medicine is the main modality in Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM). It is the world's oldest continually
practiced, professional medicine.
Its written history stretches back over 2,500 years and its practice is undoubtedly much older than that.
Chinese herbal medicine is quickly establishing itself as one of the most popular and effective alternative therapies in the West. Chinese herbal medicine is based on an individualized pattern diagnosis as well as a disease diagnosis.
This means the TCM patient receives a custom written herbal prescription designed to treat both the symptom or disease and also the patient’s individual pattern. Such a TCM pattern is made up of a person's signs and symptoms as well as their emotional temperament and bodily constitution.
Asian Massage
Asian
Massage is based on Tui na (pronounced "twee na") therapy
that was developed in China over 2,000 years ago.
The work is done entirely with the practitioner's hands to help increase the beneficial flow of qi through the patient's meridian system.
Chinese bodywork methods include the use of hand techniques to massage the soft tissues (muscles and tendons) of the body, acupressure techniques to redirect the flow of qi, and manipulation techniques to realign the musculoskeletal regions and ligaments.
Chinese bodywork is well suited for the treatment of specific musculoskeletal disorders and chronic stress-related disorders of the digestive, respiratory, and reproductive systems, which often affect the upper back and neck.
Just how does Asian Massage compare to common Swedish styles of massage? People who have received Asian Massage often remark not only how it feels that it gets into the body deeper than typical Swedish styles of massage, but it also has a longer lasting effect, and it is more therapeutic.
Cupping
Cupping
is a therapy in which a jar (glass, plastic, or bamboo) is
attached to the skin surface to cause local congestion
through the negative pressure created by introducing heat in
the form of an ignited material.
Moxibustion
Moxibustion,
or moxa for short, is an ancient form of heat therapy. Moxa
uses the ground up leaves of the plant mugwort (Artemisia
vulgaris, a species of chrysanthemum).
The ground-up substance is either rolled into sticks in the shape of a cigar for indirect moxa, or made into tiny cones and burned on ointment, ginger, or salt for direct moxa. It has the function of opening and warming the meridians while expelling cold, and promoting the smooth flow of qi and blood.
Gua Sha
Gentle
scraping of the skin surface by a small disc-shaped tool.
When pressure is applied and the Gua Sha tool is moved over
the skin, it helps bring stagnant blood called “sha” that
has been lying trapped inside of the muscles.
Since the skin has an important function to play in the role of detoxification, it helps bring up and expel the blood, thus relieving painful conditions often associated with blood stagnation.
Nutrition
Depending
on your personal Chinese diagnostic pattern, different
nutritional advice will be given based on how specific food
intake can actually be counterproductive to your Acupuncture
& Chinese medical treatments.
Past patients making dietary changes have seen beneficial effects within just days of their new dietary modifications.
People are often amazed how changing one’s diet can alter how one feels so dramatically!
Custom-Made Vitamins & Supplements
Confused
about what vitamins to take? Getting 100% of the essential
vitamins, minerals, and nutrients should be the baseline
minimum of what everyone should be doing for their bodies.
This baseline helps to give our body the nutrition to function at maximum capacity. Imagine an expensive, finely tuned Italian sports car and putting 87-octane gas into it.
Even though it needs 93-octane gas to function properly, the car falls way short of its true potential with the less expensive fuel, which will lead to mechanical problems probably in the very near future.
Our bodies are very much like this; without the right fuel, our bodies can get sick, diseased, and then, like the car, will need major repairs!
But, regardless of food intake and consumption, even if we go out of our way to eat only the most healthy, organic, antibiotic-free foods all of the time, it is nearly impossible to know the effect that one’s diet and vitamin regimen has on a person.
Now there is a way to completely eliminate the mystery of this critical problem. Through urine testing, it is now possible to know the exact effects that your food and vitamin intake has on YOUR body! Based on laboratory results from your urine sample, CUSTOM-MADE vitamins for specifically for YOU body will be shipped right to your door!
What this scientific approach to vitamin consumption and nutritional intake has now done is end the confusion of what you and your body need. Now, it is possible to get ALL of the necessary nutrients and antioxidants that your body needs without purchasing hundreds of dollars worth of vitamins based on the suggestions of your local health food store vitamin “expert,” health care provider, or popular nutrition book!
Payment:
Full payment is due at the time of
service.
Cash, Check, Visa and MasterCard are accepted.
Insurance:
If your health insurance company covers acupuncture, we can provide you with the documentation necessary for you to submit to your insurance company, so that they may reimburse you.
Cancellations or Missed Appointments
We require a notice of 24 hours if you need to cancel an appointment, or you will be billed for your missed appointment.