Emotion & Spirit Level - Women's Health

Acupuncture by Gail Miller - Specializing In Health Care For Women

Acupuncture By Gail Miller, LAc, MAc • (215) 290-6888 • gail_miller@comcast.net

The lives we lead today, often leave us overworked, overstressed. and overwhelmed. Regular acupuncture can release the tension, increase energy, and help one to focus. Because the points have an emotional and spirit level, as well as physical, acupuncture can give you the support you need to experience life with joy and a sense of having come back to your center. Consequently, acupuncture is excellent for those in transition. Lifestyle changes such as divorce, empty nest syndrome, the death of a loved one, or deep emotional wounds cause tremendous stress on all levels, and acupuncture can help.

In Chinese medicine, emotions are regarded as specific energies that move through our body. When emothions become overwhelming, they effect the energetic balance of the body. If left unresolved, these emotions can surface as a variety of real physical ailments. Acupuncture helps to unblock and transform these energies so that you can live your live in peace and wholeness.

Chinese medicine has a long history of helping balance a woman's delicate hormonal system relieving menstrual pain, PMS, irregularities, and endometriosis. Chinese medicine, can also increase fertility, help with problems of pregnancy such as morning sickness, anemia, miscarrage, and even turn a baby in the womb, thus preventing a breech birth. After the baby is born, acupuncture can promote lactation, renew the blood, stengthen the body and help one to quickly heal.

Menopause is a trying time for many women, with only hormone replacement to help alleviate the sometimes debilitating hot flashes, sweating, insomnia. mood swings, and fatigue. Acupuncture and herbal medicine can help these symptoms and can also help one to cope with the sense of loss that can come with this transtion.

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're dancing to it nevertheless. -Rumi

Many women suffer with migraines, anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Chinese medicine can help these problems, and, if you are taking medication, can possibly help to reduce the dosage. Gail will be happy to speak with your doctor regarding your treatments.