How do acupuncture and herbs address anxiety, stress, fatigue, depression and insomnia?
Acupuncture and herbs address anxiety, stress, fatigue, depression and insomnia usually by balancing the Heart and Liver organ systems (although there are overlaps and multiple diagnoses frequently involved). Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine make no distinction between the health of your body and the health of your emotions (or spirit, what Chinese Medicine refers to as the shen). Each of the 12 organ systems has a specific emotion attributed to it. By means of tongue and pulse diagnosis and taking an exhaustive medical history, I determine which of the organ systems is excess and which deficient and balance the energy in the body so I can treat with acupuncture and herbs that imbalance and turn it around. Ingrained patterns take more time and effort to balance and keep balanced.
