Lots of clients want to know what points will be used on them in the treatment of anxiety. When I practice at the Integrative Acupuncture Center in Ridgewood, New Jersey, I explain to client that it depends on the individual client and what their symptoms present with. Anxiety is a generalized term for “emotional turmoil” and different people react differently to perceived stresses. Feelings such as racing thoughts, tension, shakiness, insomnia, and a sense of dread or uneasiness are Continue Reading
4 Tips That Reduce Anxiety
There are some tips that people often overlook that can ruin even the best-laid plans for reducing anxiety in your life. Follow these little-known tips that I tell my patients at the Integrative Acupuncture Center in Ridgewood, NJ, to help better your emotional relaxation and reduce your anxiety. Eat regularly every 4 hours: When you are not eating, you are depriving your brain of glucose. When you deprive yourself of glucose, you start to release stress hormones and which scramble to regulate Continue Reading
Treating the 4 anxiety types with Chinese Medicine
Anxiety affects thousands of people across the US. However, there are subtle differences in how people present with anxiety. Your anxiety can have different symptoms than someone else. So instead of a “one-treatment-fits-all” approach, Chinese medicine provides custom treatments. Chinese medicine practitioners, pick up on subtle manifestations, symptoms, and impressions of how the anxiety affects you. Here are four general personality types that can help the practitioner guide treatments so they Continue Reading