By activating your body’s self-healing potential at the cellular level, you can enhance its ability to slow down the aging process—this is the essence of anti-aging. On a broader scale, your organs, glands, nerves, and immune system work together to prevent and address diseases, promoting overall health and longevity.
Biological Change, Chronic Disease, and Stress
Chronic stress and diseases are clear signs of needing to take of our health.
Menopause and andropause are pivotal times when we become more attuned to the need to maximize our health and potential. As symptoms become increasingly noticeable, we start paying closer attention to our thoughts, habits, and what we put into our bodies.
For women, the most evident symptoms are hot flashes and night sweats. For men, they often include mood swings and a lack of energy. These changes are accompanied by secondary effects on the organs, glands, nerves, and immune system, reflecting a state of less-than-optimal physiology.
So, what can acupuncture and Asian medicine do for you?
Holistic Benefits of Natural Medicine
Natural medicine is inherently holistic. Holistic simply means offering multiple benefits, and that’s exactly what natural medicine does—it provides a wide range of advantages for overall health and well-being.
The solutions to many health challenges are already found in nature. For thousands of years, the scholarship and clinical applications of Asian medicine have evolved into the effective, health-promoting practices we use today. Natural medicine empowers us to optimize our internal functions safely and effectively. Rather than overriding the body’s natural processes, it supports the body at multiple levels—muscles, nerves, immune system, liver, intestines, adrenals, thyroid, and more.
While the gold standard in science is the double-blind, randomized, and peer-reviewed study, natural medicine does not often meet such standardization due to its complexity and the individuality of each patient. Instead, acupuncturists observe clinical patterns and implement solutions tailored to the whole person. Though this approach is not narrowed in targeting a single disease, it compensates by addressing multiple aspects of health simultaneously. By enhancing the body’s natural ability to heal itself, natural medicine has been observed to reverse many conditions—even those considered difficult by modern standards—while offering the profound benefits of time-tested, ancient solutions.
The key question, therefore, is not “What is the treatment for this disease?” but rather, “How can I improve my health so my body can heal itself?”
Natural medicine’s holistic nature makes it particularly effective for addressing a wide range of issues. By simply focusing on anti-aging, you can improve:
- Muscle and joint pain
- Mood swings
- Thinning bones
- Low stamina
- Muscle mass reduction
- Hot flashes
- Weight gain
- Dryness
Natural medicine doesn’t just target symptoms—it works to restore balance and vitality, helping you achieve long-term wellness.
Natural Medicine is a Tonic
Natural medicine acts as a tonic—a substance that boosts vigor and enhances the sense of well-being by normalizing physiological functions. Practices such as meditation, mindfulness, physical exercise, and healthy eating serve as tonics, vital habits that support overall health. However, at times, these self-care methods alone may not be enough. A stronger form of support, such as acupuncture, body-type specific foods, and Chinese herbs, can provide an additional boost to help you achieve even greater health.
The benefits of natural medicine include:
- Reduced pain
- Decreased inflammation
- Improved function
- Greater resistance to infection
- Faster recovery
- Enhanced sense of well-being, promoting focus, clarity, and energy.
From our collective clinical experience of over 40 years, the majority of our patients are consistently pleased with the results. Within just a few weeks, many are pleasantly surprised to see stubborn health issues begin to reverse, all while their overall well-being improves. For others, progress may take a bit longer, as their bodies take more time to respond. Regardless, East Asian medicine remains highly relevant for most people, even for those dealing with long-standing or chronic issues.
Holistic Effects
The beauty of natural medicine lies in its approach: it doesn’t rely on active ingredients to directly combat a disease. Instead, it uses supportive elements to help the body perform its healing functions more efficiently. This marks a significant difference from pharmaceutical treatments, which often act as replacement therapies, while natural medicine provides supportive therapy that empowers the body to heal itself.
Natural medicine is inherently holistic, meaning that improvement in one area of the body often leads to benefits in other areas as well. By acknowledging that no single factor impacts just one part of the body, natural medicine embraces a network of interconnected influences. It is much easier to address health as a whole, recognizing that every aspect of well-being is interrelated. We are all familiar with holistic practices like food and exercise, which benefit us in multiple ways. The greater the variety of influences, the more effective the results.
Through thousands of years of scholarship, natural medicine practitioners have identified patterns that are measurable, repeatable, and predictable.
Furthermore, natural medicine is generally safe to use alongside biomolecular medicine. The future of healthcare lies in the integration of both ancient and modern practices, working together to promote well-being and longevity.
When do I see an improvement?
Typically, 6 to 8 acupuncture treatments lead to noticeable reductions in pain, inflammation, and dysfunction. As progress is made, the frequency of treatments is gradually reduced to once a week, and eventually to every few weeks as part of a maintenance plan to keep symptoms minimal or even eliminated.
For general improvements in health and well-being, most patients begin to notice positive changes within 30 days. A complete 60-day treatment course can help you reach a stable level of enhanced focus, clarity, and stamina. Additionally, daily bodily functions—such as bowel movements, urination, and sleep—improve.
Ongoing maintenance with one or two visits per month ensures that you continue to enjoy optimal health and quality of life.
What is Body Type Foods and Chinese Herbs?
Body-type-specific diets and Chinese herbs provide both beneficial ingredients based on an individual’s inherent constitution. Knowing your body type helps you to minimize potentially harmful ones. By creating the right molecular environment for a person’s unique genetic make-up, these approaches optimize cellular functions.
Common food ingredients are not only nutritious but can also have a subtle yet powerful impact on health over time. Chinese herbs, as a more potent form of phytonutrient medicine, work in harmony with the body type to enhance overall well-being.
Since cells form the foundation of organs, glands, the immune system, and the nervous system, the benefits of these dietary and Chinese herbal treatments extend to all these areas, improving overall health.
When the right foods and Chinese herbal medicine are applied for the right individual, they promote anti-aging. While “anti-aging” is a broad term, it encompasses a wide range of specific benefits that accumulate to improve health as a whole.
Diet and Chinese herbs are essential for internal medicine, as they are particularly effective in restoring balance to internal systems such as the immune system, organs, and glands, bringing them back to a state of optimal function.
Occurring in 25% of the population, this Dry-Warm body type is highly athletic and robust. It handles heavy foods well. They need high protein and fat diet. It benefits from root vegetables as a vegetable source.
This Warm-Damp body type benefits from cooling foods. Warming foods such as chicken and ginger can create low-level but constant irritability, manifesting as restlessness and attention deficit syndrome. Occurs in 25% of population.
This Cool-Damp body type benefits from light, not heavy foods. They are good with plant-based foods. Since raw foods are hard to digest, it should not be more than 50% of daily meal intake. Occurs in 25% of the population.
A Cool-Dry body type is most conscientious and industrious. It has a strong work ethic, satisfied with a job done correctly from beginning to end. Although it has a strong musculature and robustness, it can be sensitive to chemicals. So it needs to be extra cautious in eating organically and minimizing the harmful food ingredients. Occurs in 25% of population.
Which Body Type Do I have?
We assess your body type through an in-person consultation, where we consider your psychological, physiological, and physical profiles. We are here to help you understand and clarify your profile towards the right health application.
We look forward to supporting your health and well-being.
David Lee, Che-ol Kim, and Jung Kim
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