One million people using Acupuncture-Will that include you?

Today, over one million people use acupuncture each year.  Acupuncture is incorporated into today's health care system for various health conditions.  Dissemination of information amongst health care practitioners, insurance providers, policymakers, and the general public will lead to more informed decisions in regard to the use of acupuncture.  Patients and providers have a responsibility to facilitate this communication.

The National Cancer Institute, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the National Institute of Dental Research, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Office of Research on Women's Health of the NIH have evaluated the efficacy of acupuncture in their respective fields and agree it is valuable to conventional medicine.

Stay healthy this season Late Summer Earth time

Do you want to stay healthy this season?
It's late summer.  Let's talk about  seasonal changes and how we can transition through them in good health. We are now in late summer and the element is  Earth.   The organs relating to this period are the spleen and the stomach.  It is a time of transitions and adjustments in our lives, physically, mentally and spiritually.  The stomach deals with digestion of food processing and the spleen fights infection, controls blood and fluid and imbalances.This season we are building strength and stores for the winter.  Three things we want to focus on diet, exercise and reduce stress.

                                                                                                     Diet:

We need to eat foods that build, nourish and create energy.  Avoid refined sugar, excess alcohol and acidic foods. Alkaline foods will help prevent infections and build the spleen. Eating foods that are grown locally and from the farmers markets will help eat seasonally.  Berries, pears, apples are great fruits.  Sprouted seeds and beans

Drinking plenty of water and keeping the fluids in our body clear and healthy will also help reduce mucous build up.

Exercise:    
Yoga is a great core exercise and a few asanas can get you on the track for balance and centering.  Mountain pose or tadasana, it will strengthen stillness, power and stability.  It is the foundation for all poses.  Yoga can create a personal spiritual connection and the conception of who you really are.  It can create peace within.

The umbilical pulse is an assessment that a Licensed Five Element Acupuncturist can evaluate to check your body's state of balance and energy.  It is part of the initial evaluation on the first visit. Ask your practitioner to assess your core balance.

Keene, New Hampshire Acupuncture

Keene, New Hampshire Acupuncture has a new Acupuncturist!  (603)369-7965

Five Element Acupuncture LLC  and Pamela Bys has just arrived to Keene, NH and excited to start serving the public a garden of healthy choices with her unique style of Acupuncture. We also serve anyone in the surrounding areas.

  Five Element Acupuncture is not just a name but a style of Acupuncture.  It works by getting to the core of the problem not just treating the symptoms.

  Acupuncture was originally started as a preventative medicine and therapy. In the 21st century,  Acupuncture and Oriental medicine is used as individual treatment or Integrative approach in conjunction with western medicine and surgery.

  Pamela Bys is a RN, Master Acupuncturist, Licensed in New Hampshire.  She also is a RN for over 25 years. She complements the 2 medical practices with a holistic approach in her clinic.  Pamela has practiced Nursing and Acupuncture in other countries as well as in Colorado and Utah. 

  We invite all to come for an appointment or to call with any questions.  (693) 369-7965

Five Element Acupuncture Health Tips: Staying Healthy through the Seasons: WINTER

Five Element Acupuncture Health Tips: Staying Healthy through the Seasons: WINTER

Dear Friend of ITEA,

We wanted to share some exciting news with you! Having the ability to offer students the option of government student loans to finance their education has long been an ITEA goal and thanks to the efforts of so many, that goal is now a reality! We are thrilled to announce that our application was accepted and we now have an official school code, allowing students to secure loans to help pay their acupuncture school tuition. As you may well imagine this is a key step in our development as an institution.

With the ability to secure student loans, we hope to attract a larger and more diverse student body. We
have already received excited responses from prospective students who have wanted to attend ITEA for some time and now finally see it as a financial possibility. We truly appreciate your support of ITEA and if you would be happy to post some of our school flyers in your office, please contact Laurie Hill at lauhil@comcast.net who will be happy to mail some to you.
Hilary Skellon, Director
325 South Boulder Rd
Louisville, CO 80027

director@itea.edu
720-890-8922

Five Element Acupuncture Health Tips: Staying Healthy through the Seasons: Summer

How do the elements show up in our body?

WINTER health tips: Staying healthy

The forces of winter create cold in Heaven and water on Earth. They create the kidney organ and the bones within the body…the emotion fear, and the ability to make a groaning sound. –The Inner Classic


Water is the Winter Element and we need to live in accord for this season by understanding the power of this element: emphasis to be more introspective, receptive, storage oriented and to cool the external and warm the core seeking inner warmth of the body, mind and spiritual aspect of our lives. Following basic laws of nature will help you to stay healthy in winter.

The climate affects our external being and can affect us internally. We must heed attention to what is going around us and inside us. Climate is our surroundings, mood, weather, environment, atmosphere and common beliefs. We breathe fresh air into our life as we take in the climate that surrounds us.

Each season affect our strength and vulnerability. Internal and external balance occurs through adjusting ones health through eating, exercising and other factors affecting each season. Libation and Gastronomy (Drink and food): The Inner Classic advises the use of cooling foods in the winter. This means to encourage cooling of the exterior and concentrate the warmth within the interior and the lower body areas. The sounds of cooking and voices in the kitchen stimulate the appetite. In the winter warming food and herbs are recommended to combat the external cold. Warm hearty soup, root vegetables, whole grains and roasted nuts. Drinking plenty of water is essential for the cleansing of the body through the kidneys and bladder.

Adding both salty and bitter foods promote an inward and centering quality giving the ability to take and store Water. Too much of any one thing can be dangerous. Maintaining a balance is essential.

Salty foods include seaweeds, millet, miso and soy sauce. Bitter foods include celery, lettuce, quinoa, citrus peel, cabbage leaves and turnip. Bitter herbs are things like chicory (a great coffee substitute) and burdock root.

Sleep: (In the winter) people should retire early at night and rise late in morning and wait for the rising of the sun. -Nei Ching.  Rest is essential for the storage of energy within the body. Lack of rest weakens ones power and depletes the resources.

Exercise: The Tao of nurturing life requires that one keep oneself as fluid and flexible as possible. One should not stay still for too long, nor should one exhaust oneself by trying to perform impossible tasks. One should learn how to exercise by observing nature. The fact that flowing Water never stagnates and a busy door with active hinges never rusts or rots. The answer is because they exercise themselves perpetually and are almost always moving. -Sun Ssu-mo

We can never be too clever and work to excel our highest expectations…the health of the kidney official in winter will help us achieve this.

Compiled and presented by Pamela Bys, Five Element Acupuncture