Evidence Based Practice.

Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine stimulate the body’s ability to self-heal and self-regulate. It increases circulation, stimulates the body’s immune system, and desensitizes pain receptors. In this way, it can help with a variety of conditions, from virtually any type of pain, including migraines and headaches, to anxiety, depression, gynecological health, digestive health, and much more.

Here is a brief list of conditions research has shown acupuncture to be beneficial

effects of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine

Evidence of Positive Effect

  • Allergic Rhinitis

  • Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (with anti-emetics)

  • Chronic low back pain

  • Headache (tension type and chronic)

  • Knee osteoarthritis

  • Migraine prevention

  • Postoperative nausea and vomiting

  • Postoperative pain

Evidence of Potential Positive Effect

  • Acute low back pain

  • Acute stroke

  • Ambulatory anesthesia

  • Anxiety

  • Aromatase-inhibitor-induced arthralgia

  • Asthma in adults

  • Back or pelvic pain during pregnancy

  • Cancer pain

  • Cancer-related fatigue

  • Constipation

  • Craniotomy anesthesia

  • Depression (with anti-depressants)

  • Dry eye

  • Hypertension (with medication)

  • Insomnia

  • Irritable bowel syndrome

  • Labor pain

  • Lateral elbow pain

  • Menopausal hot flashes

  • Temporomandibular pain

  • Modulating sensory perception thresholds

  • Neck pain

  • Obesity

  • Perimenopausal and postmenopausal insomnia

  • Plantar heel pain

  • Post-stroke insomnia

  • Post-stroke shoulder pain

  • Post-stroke spasticity

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder

  • Prostatitis pain/chronic pelvic pain

  • Recovery after colorectal cancer resection

  • Restless leg syndrome

  • Schizophrenia (with antipsychotics)

  • Sciatica

  • Early stage of shoulder impingement syndrome (with exercise)

  • Shoulder pain

  • Smoking cessation (up to 3 months)

  • Stroke rehabilitation