Classical Five Element Acupuncture treats the person not the symptoms. The symptoms are considered to be a flag being waved by the organism as a whole to get your attention. Attention to what? Attention to how you are looking after your body, your mind and your spirit - how you are looking after your life. Five Element diagnosis and treatment seeks to find the simplest, most elegant and efficient way to get to the whole. By treating the whole, the part will get taken care of.Symptoms will be addressed, but in a profound way and with the view to eliminating them. All traditional acupunctureis also essentially preventative - to anticipate unhealthy developments and transform them into healthy processes. It is also based on principles of safety not only in terms of using sterile disposable needles but in terms of treatment protocol.

Every person, including you, is a sacred, noble and beautiful being. For the acupuncturist it is a privilege to be trusted towork with a person who is suffering in some way. Suffering is feedback on your relationship to your life. It asks - what is the next step for you? Through our work together that next step reveals itself not only in your body by symptoms being  alleviated and eliminated, but also in your mind and spirit - in the whole of your life.

So I welcome you to engage with your suffering in a way that may be new to you but is based on thousands of years of careful and loving work by people who hold you, as a human being, in the highest
regard. Acupuncture treatment, besides working preventatively, deals with problems of the organs, the joints, the blood, the nervous and hormonal systems, the skin, sexual function, depression and other emotional and mental issues.