by admin | Jun 25, 2013 | Acupuncture, What we sell at our clinic..
It’s official! We have passed the final ‘Occupy Westerville’ inspection! It is one good looking clinic, thanks to all who have been a part of the build out.
We will be opening July 1 st 2013! Scheduling is now available on Clickbook. Be sure to select the location.
UAC Westerville
405 W. Main Street
Westerville, OH 43081
(614) 426-4406
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July Hours 2013
Monday
8 am-12 pm Acupuncture Steve
4pm-8pm Acupuncture Tessa
Wednesday
8am-12 pm Acupuncture Sue
12-2pm (Cupping) Sue
Thursday
1-5 pm (Cupping) Steve
4-8 pm Acupuncture Alicia
Friday
8am-12 pm Acupuncture Sue
12pm- 2pm (Cupping) Sue
Sunday
10am-2pm Acupuncture Alicia
by admin | Mar 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Spring is the time for activity and the season to eat foods with upward energies, such as young, green, sprouting above-ground vegetables.
Just as the trees and shrubs start budding with the onset of spring, we start to loosen up as energy in the body begins to move up and out. Spring is naturally the time to nurture yang, our action principle. Appetite eases as the body shakes off the need to store energy as it did over the colder months. With the environments subtly support as the weather changes, people who want to lose weight can take advantage of the natural trends of spring to help them do more and eat less.
The Liver and the Gallbladder are the internal organs that are in the spotlight during spring. If the Liver and Gallbladder are supported and balanced during spring, the entire body will benefit immediately and be set up with the best possible health foundation to be strong and well in the season to come.
In general, foods that are good for spring are warm and ascending sweet foods. In early spring, try cabbage, sweet potato, carrot and beetroot. As the weather changes, move to mint, sweet rice, shitake mushrooms, peas, sunflower seeds, pine nuts and in late spring, cherries.
Gently warming pungent foods are particularly good for spring. These include fennel, oregano, rosemary, caraway, dill, bay leaf, grains, legumes and seeds. Pungent flavored foods stimulate circulation of Qi and blood, moving energy up and out. But remember, a little goes a long way. Pungents also regulate Qi, enhance digestion, disperse mucus, stimulate the Lungs, Blood and Heart, guard against mucus forming conditions such as common cold, remove obstructions and improve sluggish Liver function. Pungents make grains, legumes, nuts and seeds less mucus forming. Pungent foods you can add to your foods in spring include mint, spring onions, ginger, horseradish, chamomile and black pepper.
Sour is connected to the Liver. Sour strengthen the liver and is yin and cooling. It has a contracting, astringent effect and dries and firms. It helps strengthen tendons, improve bladder control, excessive sweating, diarrhea, sagging skin, hemorrhoids and prolapsed conditions. Once eaten, sour heads straight for the Liver. Examples of sour foods include lemons, limes, hawthorn fruit, pickles and rosehip. Vinegar is also sour.
Honey and mint tea is perfect for spring as is gently warming and encourages Qi upwards. Mung beans, green peas and green beans are color coordinated to enliven the spirit of spring.
Enjoy the energy of spring!
Referenced from Alex Tan (How to stay healthy in the spring)
by admin | Mar 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
A small revolution is brewing within the Community Acupuncture movement.
When acupuncture practices were introduced and established in the US back in the 1970s, the mainstream medical model created the pricing and the environment in which the treatments were done. Today, fees for acupuncture treatments range from $50-$200 with the patient treated in a private room. This design works well if the patient can afford to pay out of pocket, or has insurance to cover the costs. But the vast majority of insurance companies do not yet cover this service. It is often difficult for patients to continue the desired, consistent acupuncture treatments, necessary for most conditions, when they have to pay out of pocket.
Born out of this dilemma was the concept of ‘Community Acupuncture’, a solution for more affordable acupuncture treatments using a sliding scale system. In 2005, Working Class Acupuncture in Portland Oregon became the first community acupuncture clinic in the US. With the community acupuncture model in place, people pay whatever they can, between $15-$40 per treatment. The treatments are performed in a community space, with several patients getting treated simultaneously. Suddenly, those who couldn’t afford regular acupuncture were able to receive treatments more frequently, and consistently. In a time of soaring, seemingly unsustainable, healthcare costs, this model offers a “remedy” to the problem. It is, in a sense, a revolution.
While this is a newer model for acupuncturists in the United States, it is ubiquitous in China where acupuncture has been used for thousands of years. There, an acupuncturist can see close to 100 patients in 4 hours in a large clinic space with several chairs next to each other. The patients pay $2 a treatment, and often come every day until their symptoms are better.
Acupuncture has become more integrated into mainstream healthcare than ever before. Hospitals are trying to keep up with the demand for complementary health options. More and more doctors are referring patients to get acupuncture; it’s being used supportively with oncology care, sports medicine, fertility patients, addictions, and so much more.
Urban Acupuncture Center is the first community acupuncture clinic in the state of Ohio. We are honored to be a part of this international network of acupuncture clinics, one of more than 200 clinics in the US. Opened in September of 2010 and we are already seeing over 200 patients a week for treatments. There are now 7 acupuncturists on staff, and we are open 7 days a week. We are all grateful to be part of the health of our community in the best way we know how, natural and affordable.
-Susan Bowlus, L.Ac. and Kit Yoon, L.Ac
by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | Diet
Catalyn – Is Your Daily Supplement This Complete?
In our last newsletter, we introduced the concept of supplementing one’s diet with vitamins and minerals. The basic idea behind this is to fill in the nutrient gaps that each of us likely has based on our personal food intakes. No one’s diet is perfect all of the time; and, unfortunately, some of the foods that we consume and assume to be healthy simply don’t have the same nutritional contents that they did fifty years ago. The Western diet is composed mostly of processed and refined foods. These foods are commonly eaten at the expense of nutrient-dense, whole foods. To complicate matters, we are regularly exposed to many environmental toxins, also having a negative impact on our health.
Therefore, it has become even more important for each of us to take personal responsibility for what we eat. And that, my friends, is the beauty of ‘whole food’ supplements. They are just like eating food because that is what they contain. When comparing multivitamins, examine the source of ingredients. Manmade compounds, found in typical retail multivitamins, often provide mega-doses of single vitamins and minerals, but Standard Process goes one step further – by delivering whole food ingredients. For example, Catalyn contains 15 whole food ingredients, including carrot root which supplies over 200 known phytonutrients. It’s the combination of these foods, not just a single component, which provides the vitamins, minerals, and micronutrients you need to help maintain optimal health. Synthetic multivitamins comprised solely of single vitamins and minerals do not have the full spectrum of components that whole food multivitamins offer.
Catalyn is both a multiple vitamin and trace mineral product. It contains living enzymes to promote digestion as well as specific glandular tissues to stimulate cell and tissue repair. It is ‘cold processed’, without heat, to preserve the integrity of these nutrients. Therefore, Catalyn works in a number of ways to: maintain the health and growth of new cells in your body, to keep your skin healthy and nourish collagen production, to promote overall cardiac health, and to support energy metabolism and digestion throughout the body.
In short, in this day and age, whole-food supplements have many benefits to offer each of us. So, the next time that you are at Urban to receive your needles, pick up a bottle, and try it for yourself. Acupuncture, to some degree, must work within the confines of the body and make use of the resources available to it. Whether treating pain or some other chronic, internal disorder, this is of paramount importance, and can make all the difference in the success of the treatment. Feed your body ‘real’ food and supply it with ‘whole’ food vitamins. You won’t be disappointed with the tangible and long lasting results.
-Steve Drugan, L.Ac
by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | Art
I started to paint when I graduated from high school. I came across a large wooden board that was meant for the trash, put it on my bedroom floor and just went to work. Since I found this canvas in the trash I had no pressure to care if what I was creating was good or not. I lost myself for a couple weeks in doing whatever seemed pleasing. After that I started on a trash to treasure mission. Whenever I saw scrap wood or scrap plywood in the streets I drug it home. After a few years I painted on my first canvas and started to experiment with different kinds of paints. I’ve developed a style of painting in which I like to use acrylics, paint over them with oils which can be easily layered and manipulated.
When I start a painting I have no plans. Sometimes I have a strong emotion to express sometimes not. I have an interactive conversation with the canvas starting with a line or a shape, it responds back to me and slowly becomes something. I like the meditative process that moves through my head as I pan
In almost every painting I come to an uncomfortable place; I don’t know what I am going to do and I don’t know if I even like what is going on but I keep pressing on (sometimes I step away for months or days or minutes) until I create something out of it I can be happy with. Such is life. Glad to be able to share it with you all and my most favorite art, the art of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
It’s official! We have passed the final ‘Occupy Westerville’ inspection! It is one good looking clinic, thanks to all who have been a part of the build out.