Whole Body Health Acupuncture

11/14/2025

A joint study between the United States and South Korea has found that traditional Korean medicine treatments, such as Chuna manual therapy and acupuncture, are more effective than nerve block injections in relieving lower back and leg pain caused by spondylolisthesis.

Korean Medicine Outperforms Nerve Blocks in Spondylolisthesis Treatment Joint US-South Korea Study Shows Traditional Treatments Provide Longer-Lasting Pain Relief

11/11/2025

11/11/2025

Veteran’s Sign up as a new patient and this week and get 50% off your first appointment.

11/08/2025

Now is a great time to boost immunity. Call the office to set up a special immune boost acupuncture appointment. 815-751-6424

Winter's Arrival Wellness Tip

According to the Chinese lunar calendar, winter starts today and yin energy deepens, So nourish your body with a cuppa red date, fresh ginger, and astragalus tea. This gentle tonic helps strengthen Qi, warm the body, and support circulation through the cold season.

TCM tip: Avoid this tea if you have a cold, fever, or acute illness- tonics can trap pathogens instead of helping you recover.

Sip mindfully, stay warm, and let your inner yang energy stay bright through the winter months.

11/07/2025

Acupuncture significantly modulated biological pathways related to immune regulation, mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, glycolysis, folate biosynthesis, lipid metabolism, and fatty acid degradation. Notable differentially expressed proteins included CD59 and CD5L, ATP5F1A and ALDOC, and HYAL1.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental condition with limited effective therapies targeting its underlying biological mechanism...

11/04/2025

The end of the year is coming. Do you have health saving or flex spending money that you don’t want to loose? How about a gift certificate or a treatment package? Contact the office for more info. 815-751-6424

10/29/2025

Electro acupuncture modulates neurotransmitter levels and associated enzymatic, while concurrently suppressing microglia-mediated neuroinflammatory responses. This intervention mitigates oxidative stress byproducts, maintains tissue redox homeostasis, and enhances synaptic plasticity while promoting neuronal development. Collectively, our findings underscore EA's therapeutic potential in PSS management, necessitating further mechanistic investigations and optimization of clinical protocols. This experiment was on mice. So also maybe not placebo. The mice didn’t understand they were getting electro acupuncture.

EA modulates neurotransmitter levels and associated enzymatic, while concurrently suppressing microglia-mediated neuroinflammatory responses. This intervention mitigates oxidative stress byproducts, maintains tissue redox homeostasis, and enhances synaptic plasticity while promoting neuronal develop...

10/28/2025

Conclusion: Acupuncture alleviates physical stress by regulating ANS activity, with distinct modulatory effects observed across different acupoints, indicating potential applications in stress management and health maintenance. Moxibustion demonstrates marked efficacy in reducing Heart rate.

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the effects of acupuncture and moxibustion, as well as various acupoints, on human autonomic nervous system (AN...

10/22/2025

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10/19/2025

Acupuncture significantly restores ovarian endocrine and vascular function in polycystic o***y syndrome (PCOS) through neuromodulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian (HPO) axis.

10/18/2025

“I do acupuncture every month because it's the greatest form of prevention. It helps you understand how the inner and outer are related -- the emotions and the organs," she said.

BEIJING (China Daily) -- After a full afternoon of sharing insights with scholars at Peking University and an intensive series of interviews, French actress Jul

10/16/2025

I had a great cooking class in Greece. Use Good olive oil. Never cook with 100%. It needs to be cut 2-1 with another higher heat oil but not avocado. Always use fresh ingredients. Lots of antioxidants. The best tzatziki sauce takes 4 cucumber and vinegar not lemon. Ask me about recipes when you come in.