Why Stay Sick Longer Than You Have To?

During these financially hard times, many people are worried about using their sick days. With such concerns as losing your job if you are sick too often or not getting paid because you haven’t put the time in, who can blame you for going to work sick even though you realize that you could make yourself worse, and are putting your associates at risk. So what can you do?
Acupuncture and Chinese herbs can help you to stay healthy, and to combat most illness that you may encounter this cold/flu season.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) does not treat the viruses that cause the common cold or the flu. TCM takes each symptom and categorizes it into different patterns. We are able to treat your symptoms effectively and efficiently. Since we are able to treat the pattern and not the disease (common cold) no two patients will be treated exactly the same.
For example, if you find that before you are sick you are constantly tired, you get sick easily, and take a long time to recover, we would treat you differently than someone that is generally healthy and suddenly comes down with fever and chills, and a phlegmy wet cough.
Both are caused by what we call an “external invasion”. Each one has an underlying pattern that needs to be treated on an individual basis. External invasions can be caused due to deficiencies, wind, cold, heat, damp, or any combination of these factors. This can make living in the “Windy City”, which can have all four seasons in one day, difficult.
By taking each symptom into consideration and treating the individual and not the disease, acupuncture and Chinese Herbs can be very effective at boosting the immune system and helping you to get better faster.