TCM NATURAL REMEDIES
Traditional Chinese Medicine has 3500 years history, and now is the most influenced medicine in the world. Acupuncture is one of the major natural healing remedies in Traditional Chinese Medicine system that helps to restore the human body’s function. Chinese herbal medicines and acupuncture have been largely studied by modern sciences and validated by clinic trials worldwide. The World Health Organization maintains a list of conditions, diseases and disorders that are treatable by acupuncture. You can find the list here.
Heavenly Joy Natural Healing Remedies including:
Acupuncture/electric acupuncture
Fire cupping
GuaSha
Moxabustion/Thermotherapy
MassageAcupressure
Energy Healing
Qi-gong, Tai-Chi, breathing exercise
Chinese herbal medicine: raw herbs (individualized formula), powder form herbal tea, pills, capsules, and external use products
Life-style coaching
Spiritual healing and enhancement
How to choose the right remedies for the treatment?
Experienced Traditional Chinese Medicine doctors use multiple natural remedies at the same time to achieve the best results. There is no better or worse method, each remedies has its own specific application for the conditions that require to be used. Some remedies can be replaced with each other for some conditions at a time. Most of time, the best remedies are selected for the conditions that are needed based on the experience of the practitioner. Very often, multiple remedies are combined
together during one treatment so that a fast result can be achieved.
Our service fee
We provide sliding scale of service fees base on client's in-come, treatment time, and the procedures provided. We encourage you to call us to find out the treatment fees for you. Our normal rate of first visit is $150-$175, following up is from $95-$125.
Sliding scale from $50 up to normal fee. We also provide fee treatments for some special need people or people don’t have money.
The Health insurance for coverage of acupuncture
Heavenly Joy Natural Health accepts health insurance coverages for acupuncture treatment, worker compensation and auto-accident caused injuries. If you are not clear about your acupuncture treatment coverage, benefits, and co-payment. Please call your insurance to find out your coverage. We can find out some information but not all of the insurance.
How does your first visit look like?
First time visit, there is always a comprehensive diagnosis session with Dr. Wu.
You will fill up the registration form first and fill up the diagnosis for to indicate your main complaint or what is your purpose of the visit. Then Dr. Wu will give you a standard TCM diagnosis and she will understand about the cause of your symptoms or conditions. It can last from10 min. to 45 min.. She will check your tongue and pulses, give you a TCM diagnosis.
In general, the treatment will last 60-70 minutes. your first visit will last from 1hr 15min. to 1.5hrs.
You also will be asked detailly about your daily life, your physical body conditions. You will be examined with your blood pressure, heart rate, your facial complexion, tongue, and pulse of both arms. Dr. Wu will discuss with you about your come up with treatment method, remedies that will apply to you. and your treatment plan. Most likely, you will be given some herbal formula, teas or pills to assist the healing. Please don't hesitate to express the taste about herbal tea.
If you currently take some drugs, medications, and supplements, please bring the list of them. Or you can bring them with you if you can't remember the names of them. Dr. Wu can help you to identify if your condition is created by the side effects of the drugs, or aggravated by these drugs you are taking.
The following ups
The treatment normally last from 30 minutes to 75minutes depending on the conditions. If clients fell asleep during the treatment, they are allowed to extend for proper amount of time without additional charge. Clients always are given enough time to be treated and rest during their visits.
TCM Meridian System
There are twelve main meridians cover the surface of the body through acupuncture points. They forms a circus that Qi travel around without stop. The protective Qi runs the circus 50 cycles a day, start from Lung-Large Intestine-Stomach-Spleen-Heart-Small Intestine-Urine Bladder-Kidney-Pericardium-San Jiao-Gall Bladder-Liver.
ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY
Acupuncture, the original meanings of the healing in Chinese is “to correct” the unbalanced Qi and blood flows. By inserting the “correct Qi” to the acupoints to correct the Qi flow.
Any internal and external pathological factors can cause the disruption of energy and blood normal flow, which causes of the initial stage of the illness. When the correction of this disruption is quickly in action, the development of disease can be stopped quickly. If this Qi and blood abnormal flow are not able to be corrected in time, pathological factors can move to deeper level and further down in the channels and tissues. A severe condition starts to develop.
Acupuncture uses fine solid needles to insert into body to stimulate the local area. Practitioner uses hands to manipulate the needles to bring strong Qi to the needle. It helps to achieve opening, wakening, connecting, releasing, boosting our nervous and vascular system to allow our body retain to normal healthy conditions. Today, the needles are mostly stainless steel needles, that are sterile, filament-thin, flexible, single use and relatively pain less. These acupuncture needles are disposable, these is no chance to get cross infection with others.
Another commonly used alternative treatment is electricity acupuncture, which uses a continue or discontinue electric pulsation to the needles to give a strong stimulations. This can be a better solution for managing the pain-related conditions for some people.
Holographic theory is a part of Traditional Chinese Medicine systems. Any functional unit of our body such as hand, foot, ear, eye, nose, and so on can reflect a whole organic human body. Therefore, treating a small area of our body can profoundly effect to the whole body. This reflects that everything of body is connected and contains the information of the whole body. The practices we see so far, ancient acupuncture techniques include hand-acupuncture, foot-acupuncture, naval-acupuncture, auricular-acupuncture, eye acupuncture and so on. Some family or linage inherited techniques may focus on using one or a few styles. Some practitioners learns many systems and then develop some their own systems. So the effectiveness of the acupuncture is depended on the skill and knowledge of each individual practitioner.
Holographic System
Abdominal Acupuncture System
2. Fire Cupping
Firing cupping is a traditional Chinese Medicine remedy and a Chinese cultural heritage. It is one of an oldest natural healing remedies been using in many
cultures. Fire cupping is commonly used as home in China. You can see many Grandmothers do cupping on their grandchildren when they are having
coughs. Fire cupping is a great remedies for treating cough, it takes coldness away from the lungs. Children's cough often is due to the coldness trapped inside lungs. Most of the time, cupping alone can very effectively treat cough. Nowadays, Kids also enjoy cupping for relaxation, rejuvenation. Cupping is one of the favorite natural healing remedies for my 8-years old daughter
In Traditional Chinese medicine, fire cupping was called as Jiao Liao (角疗). It was initially used for treat abscesses and carbuncles, later, it used to treat various conditions, and also used for releasing pain and relaxing muscles. Rejuvenate energy and promote blood flowing. Or adults it uses for all kinds of conditions. Combine with blood letting, which becomes very powerful healing tool, to take the toxin out of body, take the old blood out and clean up the meridians and channels.
How it works?
Tools includes cups, and clamps, cotton balls, 75-90% alcohol, a lighter, or a candle. Using a forced holding cotton balls which dipped with alcohol, then lighten up with fire, quick put the fire inside the container and move the fire out, the air inside the cups thus is pushed away, leaves the cup with a negative pressure or has a vacuum effect. Then, quickly put the cup on the skin where has more muscle and soft tissues.
Cupping helps to relaxed muscles, rejuvenation, promote blood and energy flow, and help to get rid of coldness, heat,
damp, old blood and toxins. Your health conditions can be identified based on the temporary cup print left on your
body after cupping. The location of the cupping will indicate the specific organs conditions. If the pint is:
1) Redness, indicating of heat
2) Pale red, when you touch, very cold. indicating internal coldness
3) Purple to black, indicating the different severity of blood stagnation and blood stasis
4) Moist and hardness, indicating dampness and water retention
5) Blisters, clear blister indication dampness toxin and severe water retention
6) Bloody blister, indicating blood toxin accumulation, or virus infection in your system
3. Blood letting is called Ci Luo（刺络), an ancient remedy being inherited in TCM, and are very commonly used in nowadays. It is very effective method for relieving pain that is caused by trauma injury and blood stasis. Blood letting method is an application of fire cupping. It uses the suction to get the old blood and toxin out on the affected area.
How to do it? Using a lancet to poke a hole on the skin or after acupuncture, then using fire cupping to suck out the toxic blood or puss on the affected area. It is very effective way to detox the affected area, promoting new blood and energy flow into the effective area. Once the old blood or toxin is removed, new blood is coming in and the healing process then starts. This method can bring an immediate effectiveness.
4. Electro-Multiple Pulsing Therapy
Electro-multiple pulsing therapy are using the same mechanism as electric acupuncture. The advantage is
that it produce multiple frequency of pulsation, so that it can avoid the body produce saturation and resistance
of the single pulsing like the electric acupuncture. This is the newly larger than needles, so it can provide the
stimulation in a much large area. This device has been widely used as self-healing home used device in China.
It is useful for sport injury recovery, muscle relaxation and many chronic conditions. It is a great therapeutic
device for treating hemiplegia such as for post-stroke conditions
Herbs and Dietary
Therapies
Meridian Massage/
Guasha
Moxabustion
Acupressure
Energy Healing
Medical Qi-gong
Qi-gong, Tai-Chi,
breathing exercise
“天之道，利而不害。
圣人之道，为而不争。”
德 PART II.
The Yin aspect of human life refers to internal virtue cultivation
The principle again is “By following the way of the sages, things are offered without wishing anything in return”. This wisdom teaches people to offer selfless service to society and the world, offering kindness and respect to other people, other cultures and to Heaven and Earth.
Each individual with great spiritual practice and openness to growth can become a sage-like being in the society where they live. “People can transform themselves into higher spiritual levels of kindness by practicing Tao. If one practices Tao continually, an ignorant person can grow to become a sage; if this practice is uninterrupted and continues, the person can grow indefinitely and reach immortality”. (Heavenly Joy Institute handbook).
This Taoist practice is for everyone on earth. If each individual carries on this worldly great virtue, the world will be in great peace and harmony.
Study of spiritual teachings and performing spiritual practices should begin early in one’s life. Starting at a young age, children should cultivate respect towards their parents, grandparents, teachers, and other elderly people, learning ways of offering love and caring, and learning respect for mother earth by reducing wasteful life-style practices.
Adults should focus on benefiting the world by learning the skills and technologies to help human kind as well as planet by offering kindness as much as they can. Taoism teaches us that a good human being should offer selfless service to others and the world.
The elderly should focus on offering love and compassion to the world through cultivating good virtue, a good heart and long life. If you are healthy and in a good mental state, you can help the world by sharing your deep wisdom and knowledge on living harmoniously with others and with nature. This can be passed on to the younger generations. This tradition is sadly missing in the world these days.
We dedicate to the Taoist wisdom of healings and be harmonious with all beings and the planet.
Our Spiritual Beliefs
We believe that a soul’s journey continues after death. A person's soul is an energy form existing as a part of a cosmic energy matrix. Each soul can be transformed to a form of consciousness through reincarnation, depending on its energy vibration. The more selfless services one does, the higher energy vibration one’s soul can have, thus the higher conscious level one's soul can reach. People can reach immortality and end the cycle of reincarnation through a great deal of selfless services to the world. In summary, we believe:
Selfless service furthers a soul’s progression in its journey
Spiritual growth can extend one’s life and make one’s life better
Healthy life transition generates a healthy soul
Healthy souls will reincarnate into healthy human beings
Birth and death are the two most important events in one's life. Sages told us that we should not take them lightly. No matter who you are, no one can escape death. No one can take any material things with them when they die. But one can take their virtue and wisdom with them; these are the things embedded inside one’s soul.
The earth has four seasons. Humans have five stages of growth: birth, growth, maturation, old age and transformation. Observing how a person dies, we can understand how this person lived. Life is a cycle like everything in the Universe. If a person is mindful and cultivates their mind, body and spirit throughout their whole life maintaining a healthy lifestyle and offering kindness to others, disease and illness can be avoided or decreased.
A beautiful and peaceful dying process and death are possible for everyone. Taoists considered a healthy ending of one’s life to be a great fortune. At later stages of human life, it is very important for people to forgive and be forgiven by others. Having forgiveness is a treasure we can take beyond this world into the next. If one can leave this world without any attachment, a soul is not forced to reincarnate. If it chooses to come back, it will have a good fresh start without burdens of past-life karma. One thus can have a healthier life in this life time. If everyone strives for a healthy soul transition, humanity will be healthier in the future, and the planet will be healthier, too.