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| What is Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)? |
| Traditional Chinese Medicine is an empirically based system of medicine designed to enhance the body's natural healing abilities. Acupuncture uses small, thin, disposable needles to regulate one's energy, relieve pain, and stimulate the body's internal organs to restore balance and promote health and wellbeing. Shiatsu and Tui Na are forms of Asian bodywork, which stimulate the body's healing energy through acu-pressure instead of the use of acupuncture needles. TCM is a safe, reliable, effective and non-invasive form of medicine. For over 2500 years acupuncture, bodywork, herbal applications and meditation have been used to keep people healthy. |
| What Can Acupuncture Treat? |
| Acupuncture became famous in the United States for success in the field of pain management. Gradually patients found that not only did their pain vanish, but other chronic problems improved as well. Each organ system"s wellness level can be detected through pulse and tongue evaluations. Acupuncture is used to heal the body before disease manifests.
Acupuncture is a great modality to treat musculoskeletal symptoms including sciatica, shoulder instability, and low back pain, carpal tunnel, and general body tension. Acupuncture together with Chinese Herbs treat internal disorders such as high or low blood pressure, acid reflux, constipation, diarrhea, irritable bowel, asthma, common cold, low immune function, autoimmune disorders, sleep and nervous disorders, headaches, stroke, trauma, obstetrics, gynecology, menopause symptoms, cancer, anxiety, depression, pediatrics, geriatrics and other categories of disease. Acupuncture is also proven to help people overcome their addictions to cigarettes, chewing tobacco, coffee, food, alcohol, and other substances. Acupuncture benefits mental and cognitive functions to assist with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders. It also alleviates the side effects of medications and provides stability while weaning off mood altering medications. |
| What is Pilates? |
| Pilates is a learning process and a strengthening program, designed to put us in control of our movements so grace and strength are part of our natural rhythm. Pilates training begins by retraining the abdominals to support our bodies naturally at a higher frequency and with greater consistency. Pilates training evolves to an entire body workout. Each exercise relies on the abdominals, however significant work is required of the arms, legs, and upper back. After just 5 sessions, you will feel like a new person, yet after 10 sessions, the natural way your body composes itself will look significantly different. You can weigh the same, but you may drop down dress sizes. Pilates trained muscles become longer, leaner, and stronger in all movements. Pilates is similar to Yoga in that Joseph Pilates, studied yoga, along with Zen meditation, and trapeze. Pilates is very different from yoga in that very specific muscle groups are isolated through movement. Many people find pain relief with acupuncture, yet utilize their Pilates training to cure the cause of the injury and prevent reoccurrence. |
| What is Qigong? |
| Qigong is a set of geometric movements that focus on promoting health and longevity. “Qi” means energy or life force. “Gong” means work or technique. Qigong allows the person to work on relaxation, alignment and sensitivity to their energetic field. Qigong as a healing system is over 5000 years old. It is one of the “four pillars” of Traditional Chinese Medicine. (The other three pillars include: Acupuncture, Chinese Herbology and Tui na, a form of Traditional Chinese Medicine manual therapy.) Qigong helps induce a relaxation response that assists the body’s immune system to strengthen itself. GroundSpring Healing Center offers a bimonthly course in Qigong. Please call for details. |
| What is Medical Qigong? |
| Medical Qigong is an extension of general Qigong. GroundSpring Healing Center offers a 2 year Medical Qigong Training Program for the individual interested in using it as a modality to help balance their health and the health of others. Medical Qigong is used in hospitals across China, Japan and other areas in SE Asia. It has long been established as a useful non invasive, non surgical modality to help individuals in their physical, mental, emotional and energetic challenges. The course includes post graduate clinical work in China as part of their Medical Qigong study. |
| What is the ABT training program? |
| GroundSpring Healing Center offers courses in advanced Asian Bodywork Therapy (ABT) through the College of Asian Therapeutic Arts, (CATA.) CATA was established by Joanna and Gonzalo Flores to promote the excellence of advanced Asian bodywork in a continuing education setting. Joanna and Gonzalo offer ABT training in the areas of Zen Shiatsu, Tuina and Medical Qigong. Visiting faculty from the United States, China, Japan, Thailand and Europe assist in the curriculum and teaching modules. In addition, the ABT training program prepares the individual to sit for the national exam in ABT administered by the NCCAOM, (the National Certifying Commission on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.) |
| I'm looking for some information about cleanse/detox programs... |
| Please read though the links below for some general information about cleanse/detox programs.
Introduction to Cleanse Programs |
| What is the difference between the cleanse/detox programs you offer? |
| Here is a simple table showing some of the program options available to you here at GroundSpring. Your practitioner will be happy to help direct you to the program that is the best fit, so please be sure to consult with them.
Cleanse Program Comparison |
| I've started my cleanse but am looking for menu ideas. Do you have any suggestions? |
| Congratulations on starting your cleanse! Below is a link you may find helpful. There are menu ideas for a full 10 days worth of meals.
Cleanse Program Menu Ideas |
| What is Gua Sha? |
| Gua Sha is a healing technique used in Asia by practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine, in both the clinical setting and in homes. This modality is little known in the West. It involves palpation and cutaneous stimulation where the skin is pressured, in strokes, by a round-edged instrument; that results in the appearance of small red petechiae called "sha", that will fade in 2 to 3 days. Raising Sha removes blood stagnation considered pathogenic, promoting normal circulation and metabolic processes. The patient experiences immediate relief from pain, stiffness, fever, chill, cough, nausea, and other forms of inflammation. Gua Sha is valuable in the prevention and treatment of acute infectious illness, upper respiratory and digestive problems, and many other acute or chronic disorders. |
| Moxa- What is this? |
| Moxabustion, or “moxa” (the Japanese word for moxabustion) is an ancient form of heat therapy. Moxa plays an important role in the traditional medical systems of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Tibet and Mongolia. Moxa warms regions and acupuncture points of the body with the intention of stimulating circulation through the acupoints and inducing smoother flow of Qi and blood.
During an indirect moxa treatment, the moxa stick is comfortably held several inches away from the skin and directed at major acupoints and meridians on the body. The practitioner and recipient are in constant communication for comfort, safety, and therapeutic results. As the herb is burned, the energy goes to you! Moxa works on the acupuncture points in a nourishing manner. More information on Moxa |
| What is Cupping? |
| Cupping is a method of applying acupressure by creating a vacuum next to the patient’s skin. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, (TCM) it involves placing glass or bamboo cups on the skin by creating a suction from some kind of heating element. This therapy relieves congestion or “stagnation” in TCM terms and is used in the treatment of respiratory diseases such as the common cold, flu, pneumonia, bronchitis and asthma. Cupping also is to treat back, neck, and other regions for musculoskeletal pain. Cupping was made “famous” in 2004 when the actress Gwyneth Paltrow was having her back cupped on the “Early Show” on CBS with Harry Smith |
| What are flower essences? |
| Flower essences are an unscented water-based solution that contains the healing chi (life force imprint) of a flower. They can instantly calm, support and stabilize you, your children, and your pets during crisis or work more gradually as a truly holistic means for achieving long-term emotional and mental balance. Flower essences can also catalyze transformation or needed change.
They are a form of “vibrational medicine,” which supports our own natural healing process. Vibrational medicine is defined as a way of treating and balancing your subtle energy system (chakras, energy fields, meridians) using energy. Flower essences are powerful tools when used in conjunction with bodywork, counseling, spiritual practices, as well as medical treatments including surgery. The healing process quickens because the flower essences reconnect breaks in the optimal flow of energy within the body. Results from acupuncture, energy work, massage, cranial sacral, homeopathy, chiropractic treatments can be greatly improved. Taking a few drops of flower essences before, during, and/or after an acupuncture treatment, for example, helps the body “hold” the positive adjustments made to the meridians by assisting the nervous system with re-patterning as well as releasing the emotional/mental blocks surrounding the issue. GroundSpring Healing Center, P.C. uses the essences from 3 Flowers Healing ( www.3flowershealing.com ). All essences from 3 Flowers Healing are created from plants that are native to the Columbia River Gorge area. Using the essence of local native plants increases the vibrational benefits to our bodies. They are most often used by placing a few drops under the tongue or in water and drinking, two or three times a day or as needed. |
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