Acupuncture Anxiety

When anxiety occurs, you may experience the obsessive thoughts about a fearful situation, or physical symptoms such as chest pain, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, stomach pain, nausea, or headaches.

Acupuncture for Anxiety Protocol

Patricia Pilot has devised an Acupuncture For Anxiety protocol that will work for you. Depending on the exact symptoms you report about your anxiety in conjunction with an observation of the pulse and tongue, your Acupuncturist can determine which Traditional Chinese Medicine pattern of anxiety you are experiencing and alleviate it so you feel calm and anxiety-free.

Acupuncture for Anxiety Protocol Theory

Traditional Chinese Medicine views anxiety not as a brain dysfunction, but more as an inner organ system imbalance. Traditional Chinese Medicine theory holds that each of your organs plays a role in your emotional health. Your organ systems can develop imbalances and dysfunctions due to your diet, environment, lifestyle, emotions, and your genes. By understanding these connections, we can determine the imbalance and dysfunction in different organ systems and correct it with Acupuncture and Chinese herbal formulas so you are free of anxiety.

Here are Organ Patterns your may recognize in yourself.

Acupuncture Spleen Imbalance

Worry, dwelling on a recurring theme, focusing too much on a particular topic, and excessive mental work

Acupuncture Heart-Mind Imbalance

Lack of enthusiasm, lack vitality, mental restlessness, depression, insomnia, and despair

Acupuncture Liver Imbalance

Anger, frustration, resentment, bitterness, irritability, and ‘flying off the handle’

Acupuncture Lung Imbalance

Feeling grief and loss, sadness, detachment, preoccupation, change mood quickly, can’t ‘let go’, don’t like speaking, shortness of breath, fatigue, sweating easily upon exertion, a weak cough, lump in throat

Acupuncture Kidney Imbalance

Fearful, insecure, aloof, isolated, weak willpower, preoccupation, feelings of fear or dread, low back and knees weak, lack of sexual desire, frequent urination, cold hands and feet

Acupuncture Gallbladder Imbalance

Timid, lacking in courage, fearful, indecisive and lack of resolve when something comes up, easily startled, lack of determination, sighing

The Heart system is involved all anxiety cases, as the Heart in Chinese Medicine houses the Mind. Therefore, calming and harmonizing the Heart-Mind will be the fundamental treatment.

Acupuncture for Anxiety Protocol

Your Acupuncturist will determine the cause of the imbalance according to the extent to which your individual organ system demonstrate signs and symptoms of disturbance.

With anxiety, the most common organ imbalances are the Spleen and Heart. Any imbalance of an organ system will cause an imbalanced emotional state. The most common imbalances causing anxiety involve more than one system:

Acupuncture Heart & Spleen Systems

preoccupation, obsessive worry, don’t like speaking, palpitations, insomnia, fatigue, not hungry, abdominal bloating

Acupuncture Liver & Spleen Systems

preoccupation, irritability, moodiness, not hungry, rib and chest area tight or painful, muscular tension, fatigue, alternating constipation and loose stools

Acupuncture Heart & Kidney Systems

mental restlessness, agitation, insomnia, dreams, poor memory, palpitations, dizziness, hotter in evening, night sweats

Acupuncture Heart & Gallbladder Systems

insomnia, timid, absentminded, indecisive, easily startled, palpitations, tiredness, slight breathlessness

Acupuncture for Anxiety Protocol

Acupuncture for Anxiety Protocol balances the organ systems so energy gets unstuck and moves freely in a smooth and balanced way throughout your body. When your Acupuncturist inserts needles into points specific to your imbalance, your body's energy starts its own healing process and restores its own natural balance.

Acupuncture and Chinese medicine is not only highly effective in treating emotional problems, it also addresses the physical symptoms. When I treat a physical complaint, I often find a corresponding emotional/spiritual disharmony. Conversely, while treating emotional problems, there often seems to be a corresponding physical component. Acupuncture is an effective way to address the whole person.

Acupuncture for Anxiety Protocol

To enhance your Acupuncture results I prescribe Chinese Herbal Formulations and suggest additions to your lifestyle that help balance your mind, so you can help circulate your own energy.
For example, yoga postures, yoga breathing, and quiet, focused meditation are excellent ways to tonify (and soothe) the sympathetic nervous system. They teach you how to control and relax mind, in effect improving the ability to control both anxiety and depression.
I give you a personalized compilation of dietary and creative lifestyle suggestions. Used in conjunction with regular Acupuncture treatments, these will provide the foundation for a positive change and allow you to live medication-free without excess anxiety.

Benefits of Acupuncture vs. Drugs

1) Quick results: 3 - 6 visits or 1 - 2 weeks of time with Acupuncture for Anxiety Protocol instead of 1 to 3 months with antidepressant drugs.

2) No side-effects, no drug dependence, no addiction.

3) Lasting relief after completing my Acupuncture for Anxiety Protocol.

4) Cost saving overall.

5) Better mood and a sense of overall connectedness and well-being.

Acupuncture for Anxiety and Stress

Acupuncture for Anxiety and Stress Protocol balances the organ systems so the flow of energy in the body is unobstructed and moves freely in a smooth and balanced way throughout your body. When your Acupuncturist inserts needles into points specific to your imbalance, your body's energy starts its own healing process and restores its own natural balance. Stress causes stuck energy in the body. Acupuncture and herbs maintain the free flow of energy and eliminate stressful feelings and anxiety.

Acupuncture for Anxiety and Depression

Acupuncture for Anxiety and Depression Protocol balances the organ systems so energy gets unstuck and moves freely in a smooth and balanced way throughout your body. When your Acupuncturist inserts needles into points specific to your imbalance, your body's energy starts its own healing process and restores its own natural balance. depression is a result of stuck energy in the body. Acupuncture and herbs with move the energy and lift the depression and alleviate the anxiety.

Acupuncture for Anxiety and Panic Attacks

Acupuncture for Anxiety and Panic Attacks Protocol balances the organ systems so energy such as fear and overwhelm flow through the body rather than getting stuck and obstructing the flow of energy. When energy moves freely in a smooth and balanced way throughout your body feelings don't get trapped and cause anxiety and panic attacks. When your Acupuncturist inserts needles into points specific to your imbalance, your body's energy starts its own healing process and restores its own natural balance. Acupuncture and herbs maintain the free flow of energy and eliminate anxiety and panic attacks.

Acupuncture for Stress and Anxiety

Acupuncture for Stress and Anxiety Protocol balances the organ systems so the flow of energy in the body is unobstructed and moves freely in a smooth and balanced way throughout your body. When your Acupuncturist inserts needles into points specific to your imbalance, your body's energy starts its own healing process and restores its own natural balance. Stress causes stuck energy in the body. Acupuncture and herbs maintain the free flow of energy and eliminate stressful feelings and anxiety.