Welcome to Portland Acupuncture, your premier Maine acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine clinic!
Portland Acupuncture is a full-featured Acupuncture clinic treating pain and disease, depression and anxiety, women’s health and men’s health
Traditional Chinese Medicine Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is the formal term for the combined therapies of Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs, Moxibustion and other healing modalities. TCM theory achieves good health by balancing energies in the body using these several methods. The theory has evolved over thousands of years and is safe and highly effective. TCM uses a “holistic” approach, meaning it treats any individual problem by treating the whole body at the same time. A patient can expect TCM to provide benefits for virtually any illness, and many people choose a TCM practitioner as their primary healthcare provider.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture employs the use of fine needles along defined meridians in the body. Acupuncture can be very effective in reducing or eliminating pain, but is also instrumental in treating internal medicine issues as well. A common misconception about acupuncture is that there are specific acupuncture points that cure specific diseases. In fact, the treatments and needling points are custom tailored for the individual. It is more accurate to say that there are specific acupuncture points which cure specific imbalances. Two patients with the same illness or symptom may have totally different imbalances and therefore totally different acupuncture treatments.
How safe is acupuncture?
Acupuncture is extremely safe. It is an all natural, drug free therapy, yielding no side affects just feelings of relaxation and well being. There is little danger of infection from acupuncture needles because they are sterile, used once then discarded
Conditions We Treat
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How are Acupuncturists Educated?
Today acupuncturists undertake three to four years of extensive and comprehensive graduate training at nationally certified schools. All acupuncturists must pass a national exam and meet strict guidelines to practice in every state.
