Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner (TCMP)

Eileen practices a distal form of acupuncture where most needles are placed in the extremities and often recommends Chinese Herbal medicine prescriptions, ensuring the treatment is customized to your symptoms, with longer lasting effects.  Eileen has had success alleviating pain, improving energy, improved digestion, relieving insomnia, relieving rosecea/acne, stabilizing hormones, improving mood disorders/anxiety and stress management, Eileen guides patients in taking their next steps towards achieving optimal health.

Eileen takes a holistic approach with diet and lifestyle recommendations from a Chinese medicine point of view, forming the foundation for a lifetime of optimal health and wellbeing.  You can expect to be treated in a private room with single use sterile needles, Eileen will have a heat lamp and it is recommended to wear shorts and t-shirt.

Other acupoint stimulation techniques include:

✭ Manual massage
✭ Moxibustion or heat therapy
✭ Cupping
✭ Application of topical herbal medicines and linaments.

Modern research has demonstrated acupuncture’s effects on the nervous system, endocrine and immune systems, cardiovascular system, and digestive system.

By stimulating the body’s various systems, acupuncture can help to resolve pain, and improve sleep, digestive function, and sense of well-being.

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 What Can Acupuncture Help with?

Case-controlled clinical studies have shown that acupuncture has been an effective treatment for the following diseases, symptoms or conditions:

• Biliary colic
• Tennis or Golfers elbow
• Facial pain
• Hyper/Hypotension
• Knee pain
• Low back pain
• Neck pain
• Postoperative pain
• Periarthritis of shoulder
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sprain
• Tennis elbow

• Acne
• Bell’s palsy
• Cancer pain
• Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
• Competition stress syndrome
• Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
• Epidemic haemorrhagic fever
• Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
• Facial spasm
• Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
• Gouty arthritis
•  Hypo-ovarianism
• Labour pain
• Sexual dysfunction, non-organic
• Neuralgia, post-herpetic
• Obesity
• Polycystic ovary syndrome
• Premenstrual syndrome
• Pruritus
• Raynaud syndrome, primary
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
• Schizophrenia
• Sjögren syndrome
• Spine pain, acute
• Tourette syndrome
• Urolithiasis

What is Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)?

Traditional Chinese Medicine, (TCM), emphasizes that illness is an imbalance in the body.

Treating illness is a matter of harmonizing the Qi (pronounced Chee) and restoring the natural balance in the body.

TCM believes in the innate ability of the human body to heal itself by inviting the body back to health, rather than to forcefully impose change.

Practitioners incorporate 5000 year old ancient Chinese medical theories of Acupuncture, cupping, herbal therapy, dietary therapy and physical therapy that includes tuina and Qi Gong exercise/meditation. 

The process involves developing awareness and responding to the body’s ability to adapt to change, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

TCM’s strength lies in its ability to respond to chronic illness. An integrated approach is encouraged, drawing upon the advances of Western medical technology and the holistic perspectives of TCM.

Registered Acupuncturists/TCM Practitioners study any where between 3,600 hours to 4,000 hours and are regulated under a Provincial College.