Chinese Medicine and the practice of acupuncture is a study of what produces health. Most healthcare systems today primarily focus on pathology, the study of what causes disease. From the Chinese perspective, to treat disease is to ignore the patient. Oftentimes, people seeking medical help are given a few minutes of attention, medication to alter and/or assist the body’s processes, and minimal advice on what they can do themselves to help alleviate what ails them. The problem with this approach is that it does not encourage or restore the body’s natural healing ability. By giving the body something to do the job for it, the deviant processes that are not producing health are reinforced. The system is convinced it does not have to do anything for itself because the intervention is doing the job for it. This type of intervention can slow down the destruction and degeneration caused by failing systems, but doesn’t restore the system’s ability for self-regeneration. To restore the system, one must look at the underlying failure, and then re-establish and support the systems and relationships that encourage the body to auto-regulate. This can only be done by looking at each individual case and developing a strategy that fits the individual.

There is no one size fits all treatment that works for everybody. Everyone is a unique individual with a unique cellular makeup and expression, their own personal worldview, a disparate lifestyle, and distinctive life experiences. All these factors play a role in their body’s current state and ability to heal itself. Chinese Medicine is a qualitative medicine, where the patient’s experience is what informs the treatment strategy. No two conditions are ever identical, whether through their expression or progression through the body, because no two people are ever identical. When seeking out treatment at Innerspring Acupuncture and Wellness, your treatment will be catered to you and you alone.