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| Acupuncture procedure Acupuncturist applies hair-thin needles on acupuncture points located on the specific areas of the skin. This thin needle-based procedure, in contrast to bigger needles used to draw blood, is painless most of times. The acupuncture is performed under a relaxed environment. A mild electric stimulation may be applied to the needles for beffer effects. Each session takes about 45 minutes. It resolves or reduces symptoms several hours or overnight for acute situation such as pain. However, for chronic conditions, more treatments are required. As a general rule, once or twice a week with a total 6-8 sessions acupuncture are needed. |
| Personalized Practoce is the core of acupuncture Personalized medicine is an emerging concept in recent years. It requires doctor to conduct diagnosis and treatment with the emphasize on patient's own conditions including genetic background, differential drug sensitivity, and overall physiological condition in addition to presenting symptoms or disease. While this concept is new in modern medical care, individualized treatment has been practiced in Traditional Chinese Medicine for thousand years. As a golden rule of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a doctor is required to conduct examination (by tongue and pulse) to determine or define patient's the overall conditions that may directly or indirectly contribute to patient's primary symptoms or diseases. For example, the headache from different individuals could be of very different causes judged by Traditional Chinese Medicine. In the treatment design, acupuncture points are selected (1) to target primary symptoms and (2) to target the overall body conditions. Only by combining both approaches acupuncture achieves its goal of balancing Yin/Yang that fundamentally corrects symptoms or illness. |
| Acupuncture & Natural Medicine Dr. Peng in Bethesda, Maryland |