We at Circle of Living hope we can help you start off the New Year by giving you some tips on staying as healthy as possible with the help of acupuncture, herbal medicine and life style changes.

Chinese medicine has an old proverb that states “waiting to see a doctor until your sick, is like digging a well when you get thirsty”. In other words the trick is to focus on wellness and not sickness. This can be accomplished by building our immune systems to fight off disease before it takes us down. The statement we hear the most is “I don’t have time to be sick”. Well then, make time to be healthy.

At Circle of Living we try to help our patients to take a proactive approach to their health. This includes taking a look at all aspects of our lifestyles that could affect our health. Diet, stress, sleep, and our general outlook on life all play a large part in building our immune systems and keeping us well from a holistic viewpoint; physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Generally in Chinese medicine we are able to feel your pulse, look at your tongue and try and identify imbalances in your body before they manifest into disease pathology, in other words keep you well! Acupuncture and herbal medicine have an amazing effect of balancing many of the bodies major systems. Thankfully, it looks like the H1N1 is not the pandemic it looked like it could be, however, over the last two months there has been a hellacious cold virus that tends to move into people’s lung for two to six weeks as an upper respiratory infection. Getting regular acupuncture treatments will certainly help your immune system. Sleep, as I mentioned above is very important to keep our defensive energy up and running smoothly.

For the last twenty years we have been using specific liquid herbal formulas at Circle of Living that directly help your body deal with upper respiratory infection. Unlike “over the counter” medication that suppress symptoms and your immune system, our herbs which have been time tested over two thousand years help your body fight the infection, building your immune system in case of future attack.

Last but not least, we have been using these same herbs for children ages 4 months an on. The American Medical Association has stated “over the counter” medication cannot be used on children as it was actually killing some young ones. Interestingly we have been having such success with these herbs we have a group of pediatricians looking into working with us, they have been that impressed. So if you’ve been trading the head cold around your family, give us a call and we can help you build the immune system of your whole family.