Traditional Chinese Medicine

Registered Acupuncturists and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners at Remedy use these techniques in conjunction with acupuncture techniques to provide a well rounded approach to to helping you achieve your health goals. Treatments such as cupping therapy, gua sha and tui na are and excellent alternative or addition to any massage therapy treatment plan.

Cupping Therapy

Cupping Therapy became a wider topic in the world as Olympic top swimmer Michael Phelps, and other Olympians  have been seen with round, purple marks across their bodies in Rio 2016.
 
Cupping is an ancient form of alternative medicine in which a therapist puts special cups on your skin for a few minutes to create suction.
  • Help with pain, inflammation, blood flow, detoxification, relaxation and well-being, and as a type of deep-tissue massage.
  • Increases blood flow. Blood flow is the body’s way of naturally healing .Increased blood flow can be beneficial to jump start or restart a blunted healing response.
You can also think of it as a “sterile inflammation,” That’s because the cupping process draws blood from your vessels and into your tissue. Your body thinks it’s been injured, so it jump starts an inflammatory response, mobilizing antibodies to the area to try to heal it.
  •  Cupping therapy offers several advantages including aiding in promoting blood flow and increase blood circulation to muscles and tissue, supplies oxygen to cells, loosens knots, and can release and drain excess fluids and toxins.

If you have a bleeding/clotting disorder, blood thinners, or take medicine like aspirin or ibuprofen where bleeding is a potential side effect, you might want to skip cupping,

Gua Sha Therapy

Gua sha is a natural, alternative therapy that involves scraping your skin along meridian channels with a massage tool (Jade or other energy stones…)  to improve your circulation.
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  • Gua sha reduces inflammation, good for chronic pain, muscle and joint pain, such as arthritis and fibromyalgia.
  • It also creates immediate relief from stiffness, fever, chill, cough, wheeze, nausea and vomiting

If you have a bleeding/clotting disorder, blood thinners, or take medicine like aspirin or ibuprofen where bleeding is a potential side effect, you might want to skip Gua Sha

Tui Na Massage

Tui Na is a form of Chinese manipulative therapy often used in conjunction with acupuncture,  cupping, Chinese herbalism,  and qigong.

The practitioner may brush, knead, roll, press, and rub the body, meridians/channels,  and acupuncture points to  get the energy moving in the meridians and the muscles.
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Benefit:  good forr acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions, as well as many non-musculoskeletal conditions as meridians/channels and acupuncture points are connected to internal organ disorders.

TCM Herbal Medicine Consult

More focus on herbal intakes to help clients to improve their body constitution or condition, unblock the qi in short as well as long term. Chinese herbal rescription will be provided after consultation.

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Self-care health consultation

Tailor made teaching of  acupressure, message, body-movement, herbal/food therapy…   according to client’s individual constitution/condition.