​Empirical Herbs & Acupuncture
We are located in the comfort of your home! I bring my massage table and equipment, and set up within 5 miniutes of knocking on your door. We'll sit in your dining room, living room, garden, etc as I ask you about the systems of your body (ie respiratory, digestion, cognition, emotion, sensory, musculoskeletal, and so on). This is one of the simple strategies used to diagnose and, in turn, decide acupuncture points and herbal formulas.
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Diagnosis
Thanks to our predecessors, the trial and error has already been done. They had found that a person with a certain set of symptoms was best treated by using acupuncture points & herbs a, b, & c, but the acupuncture points & herbs d, e, & f did not make much change. However, d, e, & f worked to treat a person with a different set of symptoms. Symptoms are differentiated, not using latin or scientific terminologies, but by their parallel characteristics found in nature. For example, a person having tremors is said to have internal wind.
Point & Herb Selection
Points & herbs that have been used effectively time and time again to treat symptoms of wind, for example, are selected for a patient with tremors. This is very simple. Now lets dig deeper down this rabbit hole: why is there this wind? If it is due to a root cause x, then the person will also exhibit features that correspond to x. If it is due to root y, we will see more of those features rather than what appears in a person with root cause x. And so, we track the root cause and add acupuncture points and herbs that have been used effectively over time to treat those.