Acupuncture Points on Your Feet and Why We Use Them When receiving acupuncture treatment, your acupuncturist might focus on your feet as a main part of your treatment. Every day we are the toughest on our feet. Standing, walking, running. A lot of people that we treat at East...
Vitamin B12 Injections: Good or Bad? Vitamin B12 deficiency is common and supplementing with B12 injections or vitamins has become popular over the last few years. At East Boca Acupuncture, we believe in knowing all of the information before trying anything like B12 injections. Here’s what you should...
Auricular Ear Seed Pods Ear seeds are small seeds used to stimulate pressure points in your ear. They’re a type of auriculotherapy, which refers to acupressure or acupuncture focused on the ear. They’re based on the same general principles as acupuncture. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), your health depends...
Gua Sha Used for Anti-Aging Originally a body treatment, gua sha has since been adapted to be used in facial therapies, with the scraping motion evolving to a gentler gliding technique. Gua sha is a method that promotes lymphatic drainage, which helps to eliminate facial puffiness caused by fluid...
Can Vitamin B12 Help You Lose Weight? As we move into summer, everyone is searching for a weight loss option to help them achieve their “beach body”. One of the top questions that we get asked at East Boca Acupuncture is about weight loss supplements and vitamin B12....
9 of the World’s Most Popular Herbal Medicines For centuries, cultures around the world have relied on traditional herbal medicine to meet their healthcare needs. Despite medical and technological advancements of the modern era, the global demand for herbal remedies is on the rise. In fact, it’s estimated...
Acupuncture Points to Treat Headaches Experiencing the pain and discomfort of a headache is incredibly common. If you’re looking for a more natural way to treat your headache, you may want to think about acupuncture and pressure points. Inserting acupuncture needles into certain points of your body can help...
Keep That Fire in Your Heart “You have a big heart.” “It is with a heavy heart…” “It warms my heart.” It’s likely that you have heard these and can think of many more sayings that reference the heart and the spirit. There is a common thread interwoven in...
Top 10 Benefits of Acupuncture for Workplace Stress and Pain Acupuncture can increase your chances of workplace success and offers many benefits to boost your productivity. Acupuncture may also reduce the physical and emotional impacts of an unhealthy or stressful work environment. Employees and employers alike are tapping into...
Five Points of Ear Acupuncture You’ve probably heard of traditional acupuncture, which uses small needles to stimulate points throughout your body, including your ears. But there’s another type of acupuncture that focuses exclusively on your ears. It’s called auricular acupuncture. This is a type of auriculotherapy, which describes any...
Acupuncture for Infertility Acupuncture helps fertility by addressing problems such as an under-functioning thyroid (Hypothyroidism) or over-functioning thyroid (Hyperthyroidism). Acupuncture is the insertion of ultra-thin, sterile needles into specific acupuncture points on the body which reside on channels or meridians; these are pathways in both the exterior and...
