Moncton Acupuncture

04/24/2026

What small, healthy shift can you make today?

04/23/2026

Like trees, diseases have both roots and leaves. The roots are the causes. Examples include genetic conditions, emotional imbalances, pollution, physical trauma, pathogens, drugs, and lifestyle factors like overworking and unhealthy diets. In holistic systems of healing, like Traditional Chinese Medicine, these are what eventually give rise to symptoms. The longer they are present, the more symptoms we will have and the more systemic disease becomes. Eventually, multiple organ systems are involved, and we no longer feel well physically or emotionally.

Symptoms are like leaves. They are superficial, outward indicators of deeper imbalances. They are signals from our body to our conscious mind that something is wrong. Our bodies are very intelligent and are constantly striving toward balance and health, so often symptoms will resolve on their own. However, sometimes we don’t understand that our symptoms are abnormal, or sometimes we ignore them, thinking they will resolve on their own, only to realize much later that they have been persisting for far too long. Ideally, we understand what our symptoms are trying to tell us and are able to make healthy changes or receive the care that we need. Often, many outward symptoms will have a common underlying cause, a common root. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, clusters of symptoms that occur together like this are called patterns.

Imagine you are looking through a kaleidoscope. The patterns radiate outward from a central point. Any tiny shift deep in the center, and the whole pattern changes. This is how true healing works. Smaller, deeper shifts radiate out, leading to the resolution of multiple outward symptoms. Acupuncture is one way to tap into the inner workings of the body to make these deeper shifts, acting from the outside in. Herbal medicine is another way, acting from the inside out, transforming how our bodies function as the herbs are processed through our internal organs. Making dietary and lifestyle changes, which necessitate a shift in our thought patterns, is a third. As they say, true healing is a transformational process. What small, healthy shift can you make today?
https://www.monctonacupuncture.ca/index.php/blog/the-metaphor-of-the-tree

04/23/2026

Thank you, Mother Earth, for selflessly giving us all that we need. Thank you especially to the plants for giving us oxygen, food, medicine, and beauty.

04/21/2026

Yin-yang symbol spotted in the wild in Downtown Moncton! The four properties of yin and yang are that they are opposite, interdependent, balanced, and that they can transform into each other. https://www.monctonacupuncture.ca/index.php/about-acupuncture/key-concepts/yin-and-yang

04/15/2026

Thank you so much! I just received notification that I have been nominated for the category of Acupuncture. Though I have been practicing since 2007, I've only been up and running in Moncton since July, 2025, so this really means a lot to me! ❤️

04/13/2026

Lol - I wish I had this level of skill!

Cool scene from Hong Kong movie Dreadnaught.

04/11/2026

Finally reading this book, an autobiography by neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi about his battle with stage 4 metastatic lung cancer. Published posthumously in 2016, it spent 68 weeks on the New York Times non-fiction best sellers list. What is death? What is life?

When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is a memoir about his life and battling stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House on January 12, 2016.[1]

03/31/2026

03/26/2026

The Small Intestine channel starts at the pinky, runs up the arm, zigzags over the shoulder blade, up the neck, and enters the ear. This point is used to treat conditions on the opposite side of the channel like shoulder and neck pain. Since it enters the ear, it treats deafness and tinnitus. It also clears heat, making it good for malaria, night sweats, and fevers.

03/20/2026

Happy Spring to you! Today is the equinox, a special day that only happens twice a year, a time of equal day and night, equal yin and yang. We are still getting a little snow, but the days are getting longer, and the first flowering bulbs are just beginning to surface!

03/19/2026

The famous painter Bob Ross understood yin and yang, the two qualities under which everything in the universe can be categorized. Like darkness and light, yin and yang are opposite but interdependent, and can only be defined in relation to each other.

Please check out the following page on our website for more information about the properties of yin and yang. https://www.monctonacupuncture.ca/index.php/about-acupuncture/key-concepts/yin-and-yang