Acupuncture

Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A. This is a wonderful, inexpensive and side effect-free service that you should take full advantage of! Acupuncture can treat a wide variety of health issues, and when regularly maintained will keep many homeostatic processes in balance, such as sleep patterns, hormone regulation, stress response, and energy levels.

Q. If you were a customer, what do you wish you knew about your trade? Any inside secrets to share?

A. Acupuncture is a powerfully effective medicine. However it must be practiced in the right way. Repeated treatments 2-3X/week can be necessary to obtain optimum results in a short time period. Cost of regular acupuncture makes this a difficult commitment to maintain, but community acupuncture makes this type of approach entirely accessible and feasible.

Q. What questions should a consumer ask to hire the right service professional?

A. How long has the acupuncturist been in practice? (A minimum of 3 years is best.)
Does the acupuncturist look for the root cause of illness--such as environmental toxin exposures, daily nutritional habits, etc--in addition to treating the primary complaint?
Is the practitioner a competent herbal practitioner? (Formulas should often be tailored toward the needs of an individual.)

Q. What important information should buyers have thought through before seeking you out?

A. They should compare the cost of "regular" acupuncture treatments--which run anywhere from $60 to $120 per treatment--to those of community acupuncture--which run from $20 to $30 per treatment. They should not assume that "regular" treatments will be better or more effective than those in a group setting. In fact, healing can take place more rapidly within a group setting, where energies are amplified (in much the same way that meditating within a group is more powerful than alone).