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Clinical Nutrition
The dynamic relationship between food and wellness is well known. Clinical nutrition is the study of the relationship between food and overall health. We examine the individual’s intake of nutrients and how those nutrients are digested, absorbed, transported, metabolized, stored, and discharged by the body. Foods are recommended based on their healing energy or energy signatures, not nutritional value.
Eating for healing goes much deeper than the scientific aspect of foods, such as calories, nutritional properties, vitamins, and the like. Foods are chosen for their healing essence or the message they carry for the body. Foods are valued as a source of healing and building of energy. Every food has its own signature essence, and at least one healing purpose. Many physical and emotional conditions can be improved through changes in diet alone. In most cases nutritional counseling and support are a major component of Naturopathic treatments. Additionally, we look at how food works in the body, how the environment affects the quality of foods, and how these factors influence health and disease.
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Naturopathic Medicine
Naturopathic Medicine is a distinctively natural approach to health and healing that honors the integrity of the whole person. Methods of treatment are chosen to work with the patient's individual needs while respecting the intelligence of the natural healing process, remembering that living things have an innate ability to heal themselves.
Naturopathic Medicine considers the fundamental components of health including: body chemistry, physical mechanics, and emotions. Working with these components helps to restore the balance that we describe as good health. This process empowers the individual on their self-healing journey and creates an atmosphere for the individual to be responsible for the level of health they experience.
The goal of Naturopathic Medicine is to obtain balance for each patient, and to teach the principles of health and wellness. Although Naturopathic doctors are educated and trained to treat acute and chronic disease, overall balanced health is the ultimate goal. This is based on the Naturopathic philosophy of wellness enhancement, not disease management.
Naturopathic medicine incorporates computerized electrodermal screening, tissue mineral analysis, hormone saliva testing, allergy and sensitivity screening, and other standard lab analyses to create custom health programs.
Naturopathic Medicine Principles:
Embrace the healing power of nature
Identify the root cause
Treat the whole person
Honor the physician as teacher
Focus on prevention
There are a variety of conditions that natural medicine can help in restoring health and wellness, either alone or in combination with other complementary or allopathic medical treatments. These include:
Acute conditions such as cold and flu, headaches, ear infections, intestinal upset, rashes, stress, etc.
Chronic illnesses such as immune imbalances, insomnia, migraines, pain conditions, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, gynecological, men‘s health, etc.
Mental and emotional imbalances due to acute and chronic stressors, depression, anxiety, and over-thinking.
Overall wellness to prevent physical and emotional imbalances or identify genetic concerns before they become a serious concern.
Physical injury and trauma, including referral to appropriate specialists.
Botanical Medicine
Botanical medicine is the cornerstone of today’s traditional medical model. Long before the development of synthetic pharmaceuticals we used herbal plant combinations or formulas to strengthen and support the body. Most of today's drugs were derived from medicinal plants. Herbal therapies are characterized by their gentle action, few side effects and lack of accumulation in the body. When appropriately selected, herbal remedies offer a powerful, safe, and effective approach to healing.
Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a holistic form of treatment that incorporates the Principle of Similars and has been a long standing component of naturopathic medicine. Virtually all homeopathic medicines are produced from natural sources. Samuel Hahnemann, MD, developed homeopathy in 18th century Germany. This chemist and physician discovered that by using components that have similar properties to the disease or imbalance demonstrated by the individual, the treatment of these similar components stimulate the patient's vital force to help resolve disease and disharmony in the body.
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an ancient medical system that observes the laws and patterns of nature and relates those natural patterns and laws to the human body.
TCM has been practiced for more than five thousand years. It focuses on the root cause of illnesses, going beyond a symptom-based approach.
TCM is holistic in its approach; it views every aspect of the person as part of a universal system rather than unrelated parts to be treated individually.
Qigong
Qigong is an ancient energy practice that can address stress, weight management, and promote overall wellness. It is based on the principles of TCM. Practice offers participants a unique approach to healing that views body, mind, spirit and emotions as a whole.
Lifeforce: Tao of Medical Qigong
Tao of Medical Qigong is both a medical and a spiritual treatment. In this philosophy, there is no illness, there is no disease. There is only undiscovered purpose. Your body knows how to function, but do you know how to listen? On the deepest level, the body has wisdom far beyond anything we generally can hear or see. It is continually speaking to you and always willing to send you signs necessary for natural healing.
For the practitioner who treats, and for the individual who seeks treatment, Tao of Medical Qigong can help each person discover the underlying purpose of the condition. True healing is not just a focus on conditions and symptoms. Healing occurs by discovering the purpose of the condition and why it has occurred.
When a patient chooses to use Medical Qigong, they already have a willingness to take a different kind of healing journey. The root cause, no matter what kind of physical problem, cannot be solved by superficial treatment. Both patient and practitioner must search for the underlying messages to promote deep and lasting physical, emotional, and spiritual harmony.
The Dragon's Way® program
The Dragon's Way® program is a six-week Qigong practice that aims to bring the body back into balance. This practice can increase energy (Qi), open Qi blockages, and prevent Qi stagnation. This program can open the door to healing and allow the body's organ system to regain balance and work in harmony.
Stress: It is essential to learn how life-style can directly impact your well-being. The Dragon's Way® program incorporates tools for learning how to "let go" of stress, tension and unhealthy emotions.
Foods: Eating for healing goes much deeper than the scientific aspect of foods like calories, nutritional properties, vitamins, and the like. Foods are chosen for their healing essence and healing purpose.
Thoughts: It is said that you create your reality by your very own thoughts. Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel. Your thoughts are a powerful healing tool.
The Dragon's Way® program was developed by Nan Lu, OMD, founder of the Traditional Chinese Medicine World Foundation. This program has helped thousands of people lose weight, improve numerous health conditions, and discover their own healing abilities.
Qigong Meridian Therapy
Qigong Meridian Therapy has its origins in traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) whose roots are thousands of years old and based on the concept of Qi. Qi is a vital energy, the unseen force that courses through the body helping the free flow of energy for physical and emotional balance. Properly balanced, this unseen energy enables an individual to think, to feel, and to move with ease and without discomfort. Sufficient balanced Qi will maintain health, boost the immune system and promote long life.
The purpose of QMT is threefold: to remove energy blockages, to balance as well as increase vital energy, and to release a person's natural healing. Treatments are performed with the client fully clothed and no oils are used. The purpose is to stimulate the free and balanced flow of Qi, not to massage the muscles. Following a session, the client often feels an increase in energy and relaxation. With regular treatments, health and vitality continue to improve causing many conditions to diminish or disappear completely.
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Emotional and Behavioral Counseling
Many physical and emotional symptoms are really signs and signals from the body from a unique depth of consciousness known only to the individual. These signs and signals are accurate and profoundly intelligent expressions created solely to initiate a necessary healing process. If seen, understood, and acted on, they can directly point the way to restore a state of physical and emotional balance and harmony. This state of physical and emotional harmony is the cornerstone of true wellness.
Naturopathic medicine incorporates wellness and responsibility for one's own health into each individual’s healing journey. The understanding of how emotions influence physical health and the internal organ systems is important when moving toward optimal well being. The client’s beliefs, lifestyle, mental and environmental influences are closely considered when developing a plan for emotional health. The goal is to promote a peaceful mind and to identify obstacles on the patient's path to self- healing and optimal health.
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Massage
The practice of massage is one of the oldest healing arts: Chinese records dating back 3,000 years document its use for many ailments and Hippocrates wrote papers recommending the use of rubbing and friction for joint and circulatory problems.
Today, the benefits of massage include physical rehabilitation, emotional well-being, and help for many chronic health conditions. As millions will attest, massage also helps relieve the stress and tension of everyday living that can lead to physical and emotional imbalances.
From Bellies to Babies
Tara provides massage services that take your family through pregnancy, childbirth and early infancy. She offers classes that can assist through the different stages of pregnancy, the labor process, and postpartum. These techniques aid in physical and emotional transition for you and your infant. e.
Tara's mission is to provide education and relaxation, not just for the mom and infant, but also for the entire family.
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Thermography
Thermography is non-invasive, painless, radiation-free and is an important tool in the monitoring of overall health. Thermography is an imaging procedure where infrared images of the body are analyzed and rated to determine imbalances. The imaging process allows for the detection of asymmetrical blood vessel circulation within the body.
Thermography provides information on breast health and overall body imbalances. Early detection of imbalances, prevention and ultimately the preservation of over-all health is the goal. Current research has determined that one key to health rests upon proactive breast and body health awareness. We use this technology as a preventive measure in ensuring breast health.
Thermography offers information that no other procedure can provide. However, thermography is not a replacement for or alternative to mammography or any other form of diagnostic imaging. Breast thermography is meant to be used in addition to allopathic diagnostic procedures, mammography, and other tests or procedures. Breast thermography and mammography are complementary procedures; one test does not replace the other.
All thermography reports are read by a trained medical doctor and are meant to identify thermal emissions that suggest potential risk markers only, and do not in any way suggest diagnosis and/or treatment. Studies show that the earliest detection is realized when multiple tests are used together. This multimodal approach includes breast self-examinations, physical breast exams by a doctor, mammography, ultrasound, MRI, thermography, and other tests that may be ordered by your doctor.
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