by urban-acupuncture | Feb 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
We are so excited to be offering Reiki at our Westerville location on Monday from 9:30 am – 3:00 pm.
Reiki is an excellent complement to acupuncture treatments or in place of, for those who are needle phobic. You can schedule your appointment online.
About the practitioner, Amy Jo Eulberg:
Reiki is a Japanese technique to help reduce stress and promotes relaxation which supports healing in the body.
My first experience receiving Reiki brought me peace and comfort and deep relaxation during a period of traumatic loss in 1992. In 1996, I took the opportunity to study Reiki, taking level 1 and level 2 classes. I have continued my daily self practice since then. I have also studied energy medicine, Healing Touch, Craniosacral Therapy, Therapeutic Touch and incorporate all of this into my energy work practice with clients. In sessions, I work to rebalance the body’s naturally existing energy system through light touch on the body and manipulation of the energetic field surrounding the body. In 2007, I took Reiki Master Teacher training and now offer classes for all levels of Reiki. I am a licensed Registered Nurse in Ohio and the conventional nursing training I received is integrated into my holistic approach to health.
When not doing energy work, I can be found outdoors somewhere; on a hiking trail or happily weeding a garden.
by urban-acupuncture | Feb 10, 2015 | Acupuncture, Acupuncturists, Uncategorized
Matthew will be joining UAC on Saturday afternoons in Clintonville from 1-5 pm. His first day with us is Valentine’s Day, February 14th
About Matthew:
Upon arriving at the Ohio State University in 2006, I felt completely lost amongst the thousands of potential paths open to me. Through a whirlwind of self-exploration, music, spiritual investigation and other meaningful encounters, I knew that I had found my purpose as a healer. I resonated strongly with Chinese medicine’s big picture: the mind, body, and spirit as one whole; using logic, creativity, observation, intuition, and heart to bring balance. I want to live in a world where Eastern and Western medicine have put their guards down and become good friends, with the shared goal of benefitting humanity. Eastern medicine excels at promoting wellness and balance, while Western medicine is unrivaled in disaster management; with their forces combined we could have our cake and eat it too. Outside of acupuncture, I regularly practice a Chinese martial art called Baguazhang, which is the foundation of my internal cultivation. I nourish myself with good food, company, and art forms of many kinds. I have a great passion for music, the greatest healer of all. Nature has always been a source of comfort to me, when I feel like something’s missing I can usually take a step out into nature and feel at home again.
by admin | Oct 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Written By Kit Yoon, L.Ac.
Moxibustion is an important therapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine, along with acupuncture, herbal medicine, and dietary therapy. Also called ‘moxa’ for short, the therapy involves the burning of dried mugwort (artemesiae Vulgaris, or ai ye in Chinese), through several different methods. Mugwort, in both Eastern and Western medicine, is believed to have the properties that help increase blood circulation and promote the ability for the body to heal itself.
Like acupuncture, moxa is used along the meridians, to warm the points, clear stagnation, and tonify organ and system deficiencies. It can sometimes be combined with acupuncture treatments to help enhance the benefits of both modalities. But used alone, moxibustion is a beneficial therapy in itself.
Moxa come in different shapes and sizes. Most commonly, dried moxa is rolled tightly into a cigar-like stick, but it can come in loose, smokeless or cone forms. Moxa can be applied through direct or indirect methods.
In the United States, indirect moxa, over the skin, or on top of an acupuncture needle is the most common therapy.
Because Moxa is believed to help stimulate qi and blood circulation, promote warmth and expel cold in the body, moxibustion is recommended in conditions such as pain, digestive, and menstrual cramps caused by cold conditions, Moxibustion is also known to help promote the body to turn breech babies.
Patients with excessive heat conditions, and patients with respiratory conditions (it can be very smoky) should avoid the therapy.
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 urban-acupuncture | Nov 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
We need help with the following: work at the front desk, greeting patients coming in, answering the phone, pulling files, helping patients with scheduling appointments, and occasional other odd jobs (emergency coffee runs). Our shifts generally run for 4 hours, so we need help in the middle of it for about 2 hours when we are the busiest. We are open 7 days a week, with 13 shifts, so there are still several days/hours to choose from. In return, we will give a treatment for each shift you work. Other perks are discounted classes, and hanging out with us! We’ll be happy help you understand Chinese Medicine a little bit better while your here.
Contact us at (614) 725-2488 or info@urbanacupuncturecenter.org for more information.
We are so excited to be offering Reiki at our Westerville location on Monday from 9:30 am – 3:00 pm. 
