Essence Community Acupuncture & Herbs

12/26/2024

12/24/2024

Wishing you all health and happiness this holiday season.

12/20/2024

Tomorrow marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and the official start of winter. Winter is a time of reflection. Use these cold winter months to double down on self care. Foot baths, meditation, stretching & acupressure are all called for. Ask yourself what patterns are still serving you? What are you ready to let go of? What intentions would you like to hold for the coming year? Deeply nourishing ourselves during winter gives us the needed energy, vision, and purpose to emerge renewed and inspired in the coming spring.

12/17/2024

The holidays are a busy time. If you find your shoulders up to your ears and your mind going a mile a minute, take time to massage Kidney 1. This point will ground your energy and promote mental well being.

12/12/2024

Cranberries are a local super food! Be sure to warm them up with spices like ginger and cinnamon during the winter months.

12/10/2024

Is your back acting up? Ease your pain by rubbing Bladder 23. This point warms up and relieves low back pain.

12/05/2024

Winter weather is here. During the cold winter months focus on warm foods with long slow cook times. Avoid raw salad and smoothies. Soups and stews are the perfect fare.

Salt is the flavor of winter. Salt moistens, softens hard accumulations and detoxes the body. For naturally salty foods try nuts & seeds, miso, shellfish, olives, barley, millet, artichoke, nori seaweed and ham.

Incorporating a little more meat in your winter diet will warm and strengthen your body.

Dark colored fruits and vegetables are important to strengthen your kidney energy. Think black beans and dark kidney beans, dark colored berries, beets, kale.

Stewed fruits like apples, pears and berries make for nourishing sweet treat which keeps the lungs moist in the dry winter air.

Lastly keep up the pungent foods which move the circulation such as ginger, garlic, onions, leek, cinnamon, cayenne & cumin.

12/03/2024

It's that time of year. Our office will be closed for the holidays. We will reopen Monday, January 6th.

11/28/2024

Thank you to all of our patients for choosing Essence Community Acupuncture!

11/26/2024

We will reopen Monday, December 2nd.

11/19/2024

If you suffer from pain, what seems like everywhere, try Spleen 21. Spleen 21 is a point for all over body pain.

Found on both sides, 2 hand widths below your armpit, between your seventh and eighth rib.

To activate Spleen 21 you can regularly press and hold the point or by making light fists and gently knocking it 50-100 times each side.

11/12/2024

Right on the tip of your nose is the point DU 25. This point is known to shrink pores size and is used in facial acupuncture treatments. At home you can use your finger to press and hold the point for a minute 3 or 4 times per day. Try it for a month and see the benefits to your skin.

11/05/2024

The weather is unseasonably warm the next few days. If your finding yourself over dressed and over heated hold on to Large Intestine 11. This point is great for opening the pores and letting trapped heat out.

To locate Large intestine 11 bend your elbow. you will find the point on the outer corner of the elbow crease on both arms.