Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine for Stress Management

Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicinals have been used for thousands of years to help alleviate symptoms caused by stress. It’s a natural, safe, painless and powerful way to ease into a more relaxed state of mind.

Qi (pronounced chee) is the body’s life force or energy and in its normal state, moves freely throughout the body nourishing every aspect. Qi follows a normal pattern along channels and its free flow is essential for all bodily functions to occur. When the qi flows freely, naturally we feel comfortable, mentally focused, at ease and our body functions normally. When we have stress our breathing quicken and becomes shallow, we hold our muscles tight, our heart rate increases and we prepare to fight or flight, this is the self defense mechanism. Chronic stress keeps or body prepared to escape interrupting the free flow of qi causing it to stagnate which then disrupts normal body functions. This makes us feel tight, agitated, anxious and on edge and creates symptoms that cause us to feel unbalanced. Acupuncture helps to release or remove this stagnation and returns the body to its healthy normal balanced state.

Acupuncture for stress management is designed to 

Your initial appointment will last approximately 75-90 minutes and includes:

* Auricular Acupuncture - specific points on the ears are used for stress reduction, anxiety and insomnia. Ear seeds will be placed on points after your treatment to be worn for 2-4 days after, they can be pressed during the day at anytime stressful situations arise. Auricular acupuncture is shown in many studies to relieve stress and anxiety.

* Chinese Nutrition- Recommendation of specific foods to add into the diet which are beneficial for stress reduction and knowing the foods to avoid that increase stress will assist in the body re-balancing and feeling nourished.

Follow Up Treatments usually last 45-60 minutes and include          

• Review of symptoms & stress level
• Acupuncture treatment
• Auricular Acupuncture w/ear seeds
• Aromatherapy

30 minute Acupuncture for Stress Reduction & Relaxation

This is a great introductory to acupuncture or supplemental treatment to your stress relief regimen. Private acupuncture treatment using 5 needles and ear seeds. This is a simple treatment for relaxation and stress reduction and does not include any type of diagnosis and is not intended to treat any specific health issue.

If you experience symptoms that are brought on by or increase with stress, its time to take action and incorporate stress management techniques into your life.

Patients come in for various health issues and while every patients  health complaint is different, there always seems to be a common issue between them. STRESS. To one degree or another stress is often the underlying root cause of the health complaint. Lets look at some facts about stress.

Signs of Stress

Causes of Stress

Common external causes of stress

Common internal causes of stress

Health Problems Caused or Exacerbated by Stress

Body In Bloom Acupuncture

NW Portland Location

1962 NW Kearney St #102

Portland Or   97209

503. 901. 2075