Allergies, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine

Allergies, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine

Acupuncture and Chinese medicine can help us manage and reduce our allergy symptoms by balancing our energies, circulation and all the organs and systems of our bodies.

by Dr. Steven Cooner — 

As the seasons change, many people begin suffering from various allergies. With all our recent rainfall, this is an unusually lush spring, causing many of us to experience more sinus headaches, runny noses and itchy eyes than usual. These symptoms of environmental seasonal allergies can weaken our immune systems, causing us to become energetically and systemically unbalanced.

Acupuncture and Chinese medicine can help us manage and reduce our allergy symptoms by balancing our energies, circulation and all the organs and systems of our bodies. In this way, we are able to cope and deal with our allergy symptoms without simply masking them.

These methods can prepare us in advance to cope with these allergens in a way that greatly reduces or eliminates future symptoms. Acupuncture and Oriental medicine enable a state of energetic balance for our organs and the systems within us.

Energy is what makes everything in us work. Addressing issues like allergies without the use of medicine helps us become balanced energetically, helping us get and remain well physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Drs. Steven Cooner, O.M.D., PhD., L.Ac., L.M.T., and Helene Cooner, O.M.D., L.Ac., L.M.T., are doctors of Oriental medicine, state licensed acupuncturists and licensed massage therapists in Scottsdale, Ariz. www.wellnesssolutionsaz.com or 602-625-6612.

Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 24, Number 2, April/May 2005.