Tools from Chinese Medicine for coping with Covid-19
Those of us who practice Chinese Medicine have noticed that in China the physicians treating people with Covid-19 employ Western and Chinese Medicine at the ...
Understanding Ancient Wisdom can lead us to a better understanding of health and wellness in modern times. Chinese Acupuncture is a 5000 year old medical tradition that brings balance to the systems of the body, mind, and spirit.
After a systematic diagnosis, Chinese Acupuncture uses needles, prescribed herbs, and heat to help bring the mind, body, and spirit into a state of balance. With proper treatment, stress is reduced, the immune system is boosted, and healing more naturally occurs. Chinese Medicine can provide lasting relief from stress, fatigue, inflammation such as arthritis, chronic pain, nausea, allergies, and other common ailments. Chinese Medicine can aid in recovery from illness, speed the healing process, and bring a person to greater awareness of their mind and body.
After an initial health interview, we will work to clear the body’s meridians to aid in the smooth flow of your innate energy (Qi). We will then develop a treatment plan based on your body’s diagnostic signals and monitor your progress. We will prescribe Chinese herbal formulas that will help tonify, balance, and allow your body to replenish its reserves. Those formulae will be adjusted over time, based on your response.
Five Element acupuncture addresses the whole body-mind and is meant to balance the individual based on their innate constitution and disposition and allow the body and mind to function optimally. Once the body-mind is in balance and the Qi of the body is moving smoothly, the body is often able to better address ailment on its own. So, acupuncture is often an excellent complementary form of medicine to add to a treatment regimen for serious illness, alongside allopathic treatments.
We do not view acupuncture to be an alternative to Western medicine, but instead leverage our Western medical training to understand what acupuncture can accomplish well, and how it can fit into a comprehensive approach to health, drawing upon the best practices available today.
Karin Holt is a nurse, an acupuncturist, and an advocate for comprehensive integrative medicine.
Karin studied women’s and gender studies at Macalaster College before training in nursing at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. During her clinical work with oncology and cardiac surgergy patients at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, she developed an interest in mitigating physical and mental symptoms that impacted the quality of life for people engaging intensive medical therapies.
Karin found acupuncture so beneficial to her own health, coping with long hours and fatigue from hospital nursing, she trained in Five Element Acupuncture and the School of Philosophy and Healing in Action (SOPHIA) at the Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) when it was called Tai Sophia.
Karin offers treatment and consultation in the tradition of Chinese medicine to help patients mitigate physical and emotional challenges, while cultivating resilience and capacity to live life to its fullest.
Karin Holt, BSN, RN, M.Ac, L.Ac
karin@wellrootedhealing.com
+1 410 458 8953
Those of us who practice Chinese Medicine have noticed that in China the physicians treating people with Covid-19 employ Western and Chinese Medicine at the ...