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Enhancing Your Life With Acupuncture

What Is Acupuncture?

A complimentary medicine that uses very fine needles inserted into the skin & tissues at specific locations to activate “acupuncture points” which can help alleviate pain and bring balance to the body.

Just How Small Are These Needles?

Okay…So how does it work?

• Modern Medicine is based on use of the principle that A + B = C • Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine is based

on the poetry of Taoist Philosophy and the patterns seen in the natural world • Yin & Yang • 5 Elements

When in Balance Yin & Yang create Unity and Harmony

When they are Out of Balance it creates illness

•  Light •  Rising •  Active •  Noon •  Summer •  Fire

Dark • Sinking • Stillness •

Midnight • Winter • Water •

Yin

Fire

Earth

Metal Water

Wood

Five Phases

Water – Wisdom, Courage, and Potential

Effected by: •  Overwork •  Chronic Illness •  Addictive

Behaviors •  Excessive Fear

Symptoms: •  General Aging •  Forgetfulness •  Urinary Distress •  Bone Disease •  Hormonal

Imbalances •  Chronic Fatigue

Wood – Growth, Action and Flexibility

Effected by: •  Lack of Protein •  Emotional Stress •  Prescription &

Recreational Drugs

•  Over Exercise •  Lifestyle Choices

Symptoms: •  Irregular Periods •  Painful Periods •  PMS •  Raynauds •  Tendon Injuries •  Some Digestive

Distress

Fire – Expansion, Protection, and Passion

Effected by: •  Many types of

recreational drugs •  Anxiety •  Trauma/System

Shock

Symptoms: •  Anxiety •  Sleep

Disturbances •  High Blood

Pressure •  Unexplained

Weight Gain •  Leaky Gut

Earth – Mother, Nurture, and Intention

Effected by: •  Food Choices •  Eating Habits •  Self Care •  Excessive Worry

Symptoms: •  Digestive

Imbalances •  Food Sensitivities •  Nausea/Vomiting •  Eating Disorders •  ADHD

Metal – Transition, Preciousness, and Mystery

Effected by: •  Grief •  Early Childhood

Trauma •  Genetic/Karmic

Symptoms: •  Respiratory

Distress •  Crohn’s Disease •  IBS •  Eating Disorders •  OCD

Fire

Earth

Metal Water

Wood

Five Phases

The Poetry

• Modern Medicine is based on use of the scientific inquiry •  A + B = C

• Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine is based on the poetry of Taoist Philosophy and the patterns seen in the natural world •  Yin & Yang •  5 Elements

Carolyn Provencher Acupuncture

906-458-2565

www.carolynprovencher.com