MJ Acupuncture & Constitutional Medicine is a primary care acupuncture clinic. The clinic offers variable treatments including acupuncture, acupressure, cupping, and herbal prescription according to holistic approach, evidence based, and narrative medicine.
Holistic Approach
Human body including physical, mental, functional properties should be viewed as wholes, not just as a collections of parts because all of the body parts continuously work together through the various means of mutual communication. MJ Acupuncture focuses on these mutual relationships of internal organs and attempts to maintain the homeostasis in the body.
Evidence Based
Some people believe oriental medicine is more superstitious or placebo rather than scientific, and it is maybe true when people look at the Yin and Yang or the five elements theory. But those are the means to explain our body in ancient times. If it is translated to contemporary terminology, it will give you a totally different perspective on human body. Also, Yin and Yang or the five elements are not all about the oriental medicine. One of the oldest methods of treatment was evidence based medicine (AD 152-219). In ancient times, most of the patients were hospitalized in the doctor’s house. The ancient doctors observed the patient’s body, stools, urine, sweat, speech, sleeping patterns, eating patterns and the patient’s emotional changes. Based on theses observation, the doctors attempted to find the origin of problems and pathological changes related to the main complaint. MJ acupuncture practices this evidence based medicine with the overall diagnostic methods.
Narrative medicine
In contemporary medicine, Narrative medicine is a medical approach that utilizes people’s narratives in clinical practice, research, and education as a way to promote healing. Instead of following the present symptoms, the practitioner observes the physiological status of your body and tries to find out the original causation of the problem. After finding the original problem, our practitioner prescribes acupuncture, herbal medicine, and diet plan.
