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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Treatments in Ottawa, ON
What is Moxibustion?
- Moxibustion is also called moxa. It is usually made from the dried leafy material of Chinese mugwort.
How to do Moxibustion?
The glowing end of the moxa stick is held by the therapist about an inch or two above the surface of the skin until the area reddens and becomes suffused with warmth. Moxibustion is often used in combination with acupuncture.
What can Moxibustion do?
Its purpose is to strengthen the immune system, stimulate the flow of Qi or energy, dispel certain pathogenic influences, warm inner body and maintain good health.
Potential risks:---Burns(experienced acupuncturists can avoid).
How to do Cupping?
A therapist puts special cups on your skin for a few minutes to create suction.
- What can cupping do? It can reduce muscle and sinew pain, help with inflammation, blood flow, digestion, relaxation and clears the pores and release toxins.
- What diseases can cupping treat? Digestion disordersMotor System Indications such as Cervical Joint Pain, Shoulder Pain, Back Pain, Lumar Pain, Hip Pain, Knee Pain, and Arm Pain. Nervous System Indications such as Limb Nerve Paralysis, Cervical Muscle Spasm, Gastrocnemius Spasm.
- Potential risks: Skin discoloration (redness or bruises, wild or serious depending on the disease condition. It will disappear in 1-2 days or a week.)
How to do Guasha?
-Guasha therapy involves scraping your skin with a massage tool to improve your blood and lymph circulation.
What can Guasha do?Guasha can relieve muscle, sinew, and joint pain, promote circulation of body fluid, and keep health and beauty. It is generally performed on a person’s back, buttocks, neck, shoulder, arms, legs, and face. Potential risks:---Skin discoloration (redness or bruises, wild or serious depending on the disease condition. It will disappear in 1-2 days or a week.)For face beauty Guasha therapy, scraping on the face is only a very gentle force, will only make the skin slightly red, 1,2 minutes can disappear.
Body Detox and Relaxation Treatment:
No Needlings throughout the treatments!!!
- Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment with tools of Cupping, Guasha and Ear Seeds, working along the Body Meridians to detoxify body in order to provide a relaxation treatment.
- Treatment Lengths: 45 minutes/60 minutes/75 minutes
- Treatment covered:
- Back, Shouldes Cupping Therapy---Relax Muscles, Relieve knots and stagnation;
- Neck, Back Guasha Therapy--- Improve Lymph, Blood and Energy Circulation
- Meridian Massage--- Maintain Visceral Health
- Ear Seeds---Improving sleeping and extending the treatment outcomes
New : Mental Relaxation Therapy
As the spring arrival, it is the best time of the year to address Anxiety with Traditional Chinese Medicine treatments. We warmly welcome the patients who are suffering from some related symptoms such as Anxiety, Mental Fatigue and Insomnia.
Treatment includes:
First treatment will still perform Initial Assessment
1) Acupuncture
2) Guasha for facial and Scalp
3) Treatment Length : 60 minutes
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