Cosmetic Acupuncture - Natural Alternative

While cosmetic surgery can assist many people that have clinical requirements or extreme issues, there are methods that can help you look younger without a scalpel. If the idea of going under the knife makes you concerned, there's a nonsurgical option called Cosmetic 

Acupuncture. It makes use of the body's innate recovery to attain an extra youthful appearance.

Cosmetic acupuncture is a specialty within acupuncture, and also both are modalities made use of in Chinese medicine. To give you a little history, here is a brief description of acupuncture and Chinese medication. 

Acupuncture is a technique that uses little sterile, non-reusable stainless steel needles inserted at special points on the body (called acupuncture points) to remedy various ailments and restore the body to homeostasis. The nature of the diagnosis is where the needles are used on the body and the deepness of insertion. Some think that there are as many as 2,000 acupuncture points on the human body. 

Cosmetic Acupuncture is a specialty that deals primarily with acupuncture points on the face. Acupuncture points may be treated on the remainder of the body to remove any other health imbalances that might be presently discovered during the initial intake and client history. 

Oriental medicine is an umbrella term that includes many methods, including acupuncture and also herbal remedies. Among the very first records of acupuncture is found in the Huang Di Nei Jing (The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medication) which is approximately 4,700 years old. 

According to Traditional Oriental Medicine concepts (in addition to Eastern philosophies), universal energy called Qi (pronounced"chee") exists in all living things and distributes along pathways in the body called meridians. The concept mentions that health and wellness are preserved as long as this energy moves freely along these pathways. Nonetheless, if the power or qi is obstructed, the system is interrupted and pain and ailments may result. 

Cosmetic Acupuncture is a non-surgical treatment used to lower the symptoms of aging. Extremely fine needles are placed on the face as well as the body, raising local circulation and also stimulating collagen and elastin, filling in lines, and providing suppleness to the skin for a healthy glowing skin tone. Cosmetic Acupuncture is a natural treatment with very little danger and without the risk of side effects such as scarring, infection, or extensive recuperation time.

Cosmetic Acupuncture offers a noninvasive option for those thinking about enhancing their appearance with a more natural approach. While some people can have significant outcomes with Cosmetic acupuncture, they are generally a lot more subtle and safer than surgeries.

There are several advantages to cosmetic acupuncture:

• Decrease fine lines.
• Remove dark circles as well as puffy eyes.
• Improve skin and complexion by improving circulation.
• Tighten skin.
• Lighten scars.
• Decrease dark spots and blemishes.
• Tighten pores. 
• Brighten eyes.
• Enhance the look of wrinkles.
• Decrease frown lines.
• Lift sagging skin as well as drooping eyelids.

A range of things can be integrated right into Cosmetic Acupuncture treatments, and each client is treated as an individual. At Lehigh Valley Oriental Medicine, Ming Ming Molony, OM, DCM has been providing Cosmetic Acupuncture to her patients for three decades. Ming Ming has also produced a DVD titled: “The Chinese Acupressure Facelift”. The information and instruction in the DVD can be used by the client at home to support and enhance the Cosmetic acupuncture treatments or as stand-alone home therapy. Available here.

The number and length of treatments depend on where you go but are usually done once a week for about ten weeks. Afterward, therapies drop to once a month for a few months and after that on an "as needed" basis. Frequency can likewise rely on the person, what they're trying to accomplish and just how well they respond.

The COVID-19 virus, commonly called the Wuhan virus from its place of inception, most likely has a heritage starting from the 1918 Spanish influenza (flu).

The good thing is that we as a society are developing a procedure for immediately shutting down our society with minimal long term disruption. We are developing ways to sequester those most liable to be affected and continue as a civilization.

Regarding each person and what they can do to minimize this whole ”pandemic” effects, first and foremost don’t get the Wuhan virus. Hunker down minimizing contact at least until it gets a bit warmer outside, which will reduce its viability on outside surfaces. Then fewer people will have it to spread it. In the meantime, when you do go out, wear a mask when in public and gloves when in places where you need to, as much to keep from infecting other folks as getting infected yourself. When you buy things other than refrigerated stuff, let it sit for a day someplace safe, then open it. Sort of like Christmas every day!

If you are more anal or are sure you are being exposed, leave your clothes at work or wash your clothes when you get home, sanitizing you shoes upon returning and then taking a shower. When you get home, drink some warm to hot water with lemon in it to rinse into your stomach acids any Wuhan goodies that may be stuck on the mucus in your throat.

Me? I wear a mask, keep my hands off my face, washing them frequently, still doing the lemon water thing most times in tonic water with quinine, but since I’m not British, I don’t add the gin. Hopefully, my relative laziness won’t kill me.

Steps to prepare your body for possible infection or exposure in order to hopefully minimize the effects and render your system stronger. Remember, no one really knows what helps, but we have ideas on how to ramp up your immune system.

Take 1,000 mg of vitamin C (added bioflavonoids can only help) 3 times a day, mostly because it is water soluble so you pee out what you don’t use.

Find some Cordyceps and take the dose on the bottle, which is a maintenance dose. This is a great tonic Chinese herb that can be used singly.

Take 1- 5000mg vitamin D, dose on the bottle.

Take a good quality multi-vitamin with lots of minerals and micronutrients, the ones you normally get in organic foods like molybdenum, making sure it has zinc too. Make sure it has everything but the kitchen zinc. That’s a joke for you slow folks.

Drink a bottle of tonic water with quinine a day, just in case it helps. It will help quench your thirst, especially with lemon. If being cooped up with your family is just too much or if you are British, add gin.

A great preventative, especially in this flu season, is doing the Wim Hof Method of breathing exercise. Easy, simple, and fun to do with family. Get the app!

The above is a generalized preventative. I’m sure you can add a few things you like. It’s not for someone who is having symptoms or a positive virus test. The idea is that it is better to stay ahead of a problem than to try and catch up with it once it’s taken hold.

Once you have any symptoms or have a positive test, but not many symptoms, it is time to kick into high gear. First off, there are no guarantees. Perfectly healthy young people may die, but they are few. Those who say health conscious people are dying are really cherry picking advice on how to prevent getting really ill, not looking at it rationally, but that’s ok if it helps you get committed to consistently working at keeping well.

The following is a generally immune building kick in the pants gleaned from years of experience. You can always add to it or take similar stuff, but MY experience shows this stuff works well.  

Take two hot water extract cordyceps capsules 3 times a day. This is a general balancer, builder and especially a lung tonic.

I use a formulation called Immune Support that has Dimethylcine (DMG, a lung tonic in my view), Beta 1,3 Glucan, Maitake, and larch tree extracts. 2 pills, 3 times a day.

Immune Qi Deluxe powder, which is essentially concentrated immunoglobulins, to provide the immune system with what it needs to be in fighting form.

Double the Vitamin C suggestion above to 2-1000 mg caps, 3 times a day. If your stool gets loose, reduce the amount by 1 or 2.

Bee propolis in your favorite form, about 250 mg, 3 times a day.

The Chinese herb formula Gan Mao Ling, at double the recommended dose.

If for some reason you worsen, contact a Oriental Medicine practitioner and go to a Hospital if you are having breathing problems immediately.

If you go to the hospital, do exactly what they say as they have been doing it for a while but know little or nothing about what you may be doing. Hopefully, they will have tweaked “Trumps formula” chloroquine and the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir or some other strong antibiotic, and zinc, and you will be improving in a few days or sooner. Once released and back at home, it’s time to go back on the above and to see a Oriental Medicine provider for Chinese herbal supplementation specific to your case. This is to minimize long term complications and reinfections.

The side effects of the above suggestions (other than the hospitalization part, which I am unqualified to comment on) are overall better health even if they do absolutely nothing obvious to affect the Wuhan virus. Remember, nobody can prove anything when there is a disorder that no one has ever had before. Everyone is working in the dark with the best tools they have as we head toward the light of a cure. Everything I have presented in this short essay is what I understand to be a path toward a healthy future.

All that said, when the governor allows us to reopen the Lehigh Valley Oriental Medicine Centre again, we will be extremely careful to make sure not one of our patients/clients, or us for that matter, is infected or re-infected with the Wuhan virus. To that end, for the time being we will be wearing masks when in our office, using air sanitizing equipment complete with ultra-violet and negative ions, washing our hands frequently or wearing gloves when indicated, reducing the frequency of appointments to minimize waiting room interaction (Sorry. We realize that half the fun is meeting the people who come to our office. That’s one of the big reasons we are here!), and sanitizing furniture and the place in general.

Also, we ask that you please not come for treatment if you have been exposed to someone with the virus and have not waited 2 weeks to confirm or have tested if you have positive. When tested and cleared, we will be happy to provide acupuncture services. This is as much for our other patients as for us. The last thing we want to do is to spread infection to our friends, our patients. Help us do that.

However, if you have been found to be testing positive or have symptoms not quite bad enough to go to the hospital, then call us to set up a time for a more comprehensive telephone call where we will do our best to understand the nature of your symptoms in both an Oriental Medicine and Conventional medical fashion to make sure you get the treatment you need to recover rapidly and healthily.

If you are a past client and need supplements or herbs, please call us to arrange to come get then or to have them shipped.

We are sure that in a year this will all be past us and we are hopeful that the world will be a better place due to this crisis. Let’s work together to make that happen.

David and Ming Molony