What is Acupuncture, and how does it work?

Acupuncture involves the insertion of extremely thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your body. 

Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force — known as qi or chi (CHEE) — believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your body. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, acupuncture practitioners believe that your energy flow will re-balance. 

The ancient Chinese use the term Qi to describe energetic relationships. Qi, pronounced chēe, is depicted by it's Chinese character: 氣, a picture depicting the vapor created while cooking rice. Therefore, Qi is most often loosely translated as "energy". It is, however, the energetic relationships, or associations, that the term Qi is attempting to describe.

Acupuncture, and moxibustion, deals specifically with Jing Qi, or "Channel Qi". Channels, or what are most often translated asmeridians, are energetic pathways throughout the body. Jing Qi traverses these channels and can be accessed at specific points. Acupuncture techniques are utilized to access this Jing Qi at these specific points. These techniques allow the practitioner to affect the organs and regions of the body these energetic pathways traverse.

What is Herbal Apothecary?

Time-honored small batches of high grade herbal medicine. We use only the purest and finest ingredients.

All apothecary is made only with organically grown or ethically wildcrafted herbs, sulfar and pesticide free and all our alcoholic extracts are made with Demeter-certified Biodynamic organic grape alcohol.

What is Nutritional Counseling?

Lots of people can benefit from working with a nutritionist, for many different reasons–whether you need a complete diet overhaul, are looking to manage a medical condition, want to fine-tune your food choices, or get inspiration for new, healthy recipes.