Illuminate Your Life: a chinese medicine blog
Meet Dr. Jenna
Dr. Jenna focuses on understanding each person as an individual, in order to meet his or her needs. Her goal is to help people get back on their feet again, to relieve pain, and to do so naturally, with acupuncture and herbal remedies.
Oils for the Earth Element
Our Earth oil blend supports your spleen and stomach and encourages feelings of compassion, nurturance, and grounding.
Welcoming Late Summer
It’s late summer! Learn 7 ways you can support the vitality of your Earth element and the wellbeing of your mind, body, and spirit.
Ghost Treatments
Sensitive individuals may be picking up on and experiencing this even if it isn’t their personal “stuff”. In this case, they may benefit from a ghost treatment — yes we said ghost!
Herbal Medicine Support
Herbal Medicine mirrors the treatment strategies we take with acupuncture, after evaluating your symptoms, considering your health history and developing a treatment strategy. Unlike western pharmaceuticals, it is not the prescription of one drug for one disease.
Featured Point: Small Intestine 4
Summer is the time of the Fire element, and you may be more likely to find yourself experiencing physical and emotional symptoms related to the Small Intestine during this season.
Meet Dr. Rachel
Dr. Rachel’s authentic and heart-centered approach is gentle yet empowering. She incorporates the acknowledgment of the spiritual and emotional aspects of a patient and the correlation to disease.
Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture
We’re excited to offer Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture appointments with Dr. Jenna and Monica! The goal of Facial Rejuvenation is to bring the glow back to your face with a safe, effective and natural treatment.
Summer Movement Tips
The season of summer celebrates heat, long days and lots of outdoor activities. Check out our tips for staying active without burning out in the summer heat.
What is Gua Sha?
Gua Sha is a manual technique that releases tight fascia and underlying muscles. Similar to cupping, it opens channels, relieves stagnation and increases circulation to alleviate pain and encourage healing.
Summertime Nourishment
The season of summer celebrates heat, longer days and lots of outdoor activities. Summer is considered a very yang time of year, and with this in mind it is important to nourish yin within the body.
Welcome Dr. Jenna
We're so excited to welcome Dr. Jenna Wilsey to the team! Dr. Jenna earned a Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine from Pacific College of Health and Science.
Nourish Your Qi
On the most yang days, we are given the opportunity to strengthen our qi for the upcoming yin days of the year and vice versa through moxibustion.
Yang Days of Summer
Summer is here and in Chinese Medicine, we rejoice in welcoming the most yang time of the year. Yang indicates a full expansion of energy.
Featured Point: Pericardium 7
Pericardium 7 (PC-7), the earth point on this fire channel, helps to calm anxiety while opening tightness that may be constricting this channel, and therefore our hearts. Connecting to the earth element, it brings grounding to our fire, our desire for connections with others and our passions.
Hello Summer
Chinese Medicine proposes that we will feel our best if we live according to the seasons. In the Summer, it is our fire that wants to come out and play!
How to Start a Gratitude Journal
Gratitude helps you feel more positive emotions, cope with stress, relish good experiences, sleep better, enhance empathy, deal with adversity and build stronger relationships.
Detox Miso Soup
Seaweed is the detoxifier of the ocean while mushrooms are detoxifiers of land. Both combine well in this tasty soup to help boost your immune system and ease the workload on your Liver as you get ready to move into Summer.
Infertility Awareness
Infertility looks different to everyone trying to conceive. No matter how this journey looks for you - you are not alone. We love nourishing our patients’ fertility and supporting them in this journey of healing and discovery.
Self-Care: Dry Brushing
Dry brushing is an ancient practice that has been used across many different cultures to remove dead skin and increase circulation. It’s also one of our favorite self-care activities!