What about health insurance?
Most alternative health providers have a pretty good understanding of the health-insurance maze and can advise you on whether their services are usually covered. Even so, check with your insurer first. If you're turned down, ask about the procedure for appealing the decision. Be persistent and provide as much evidence as you can for the value of the treatment.

For Stress

When you are under stress, instead of losing your calm and disturb your internal chi; you should use this time to do some deep breathing exercises. You should perform these exercises in a slow, controlled manner. Inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth. After a few repetitions, you will notice a return of balance in your energy and hopefully your emotion as well.

For lower back pain
(1) Stand up straight and place palms on lower back for support.
(2) Slowly and gently rotate hips in continuous circular motions. Rotate clockwise 5-10 times.
(3) Repeat, this time counterclockwise.
Do this every day. You'll definitely feel the difference. If you're an early riser, you might see Tai Chi practitioners doing this exercise to start the day.

Wai Dan Gong
This simple exercise has been practiced by people of all ages in Chinese communities around the world. The idea behind Wai Dan Gong is to promote un-obstructive flow of chi in the meridians.
(1) Look straight ahead, arms loose and relaxed at sides. Stand with feet shoulder width apart.
(2) Shake wrists forward and backward gently and in a relaxed manner. Shake 100 times continuously.

Don Guai Women’s Best Friend

For centuries have regarded Dong Guai as one of the stable herb for gynecological problems. Known scientifically as Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Dong Guai is a root that is commonly used to tonify and invigorate blood. Daan offers Dong Guai in easy-to-use capsules.
Through these functions, Dong Guai is able to regulate menses, relieve menstrual cramps, moisten intestines, and encourage bowel movement. The root itself is divided into three parts: the head, the main root, and the tail of the root.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the head of the Dong Guai root is considered to be the most blood tonifying section. The tail is used mainly for its blood invigorating ability. In between, the main root contains both functions of tonifying and invigorating blood. Due to its warm property (hence, its ability to improve circulation), one must be cautious in the quantity and the general Yin and Yang balance of one's body before using Dong Guai. If one experiences thirst, (especially at night), constipation, scanty and dark yellow urine, night sweat, insomnia with mental restlessness, and/or warm to hot extremities, one ought to reduce the quantity or refrain from using Dong Guai.
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dan Gui is usually taken with other herbs:
? to reduce the warm property of Dong Guai (especially in a yin deficient and/or yang preponderance body type)
? to enhance blood tonification or invigorate effect
Although Chinese herbs such as Dong Guai are considered supplements in the United States, one ought to consult with a certified acupuncturist/herbalist before using them, in order to avoid side-effects.

Tea Time.

Tea has an impressive history as a healthful beverage. DAAN carries a variety of teas. The most common and popular tea types are green tea, black tea and oolong tea.
Green tea is the palest in color of the three, typically a subtle shade of light green or yellow. After harvesting, the tea leaves are subjected to light steaming or gentle heat to prevent certain natural changes from taking place. In particular, this processing inhibits the auto-oxidation caused by natural enzymes present in the freshly picked tea leaves. If oxidation is allowed to proceed unchecked, it would eventually convert the tea to oolong and then black tea. The gentle processing, however, prevents this oxidation, thus preserving important natural antioxidants in the leaves. The result is green tea.
Black tea has a stronger flavor and darker color than green tea. The tea leaves are processed more than green tea, including auto-oxidation, which turns the tea a dark brown or reddish color. Black tea is the most popular tea world wide, constituting nearly 80 percent of all tea produced and drunk.
Oolong is Chinese for "black dragon." Despite its name, however, oolong tea is the happy medium between green and black tea. Oolong tea is partially auto-oxidized, so it has a slightly stronger taste than green tea but is more delicate than the fully-auto-oxidized black tea.

How long does it take to see results?

There are a number of factors that determine how you you respond to Chinese medicine treatment:
? Time from onset of injury/ailment: Generally, you'll see quicker results from herbal and acupuncture treatments if the condition is acute, rather than chronic.
? Body type: If the imbalance is great, treatments may take longer to alleviate the condition.
? Life style: Often an ailment is caused by poor eating and sleeping habits, lack of exercise, stress, or other conditions. If you don't make changes to lead a healthier life, results from herbal or acupuncture treatments won't be as good as they would be otherwise.

T.C.M?

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is the system of medicine that has been used in China and other parts of Asia, including Japan and Korea, for thousands of years. It's also sometimes called Oriental medicine.

Alternative medicine takes a wellness-based, holistic approach to your health, looking at you as a whole person and not just a group of symptoms. The goal isn’t to treat the symptoms of the problem but rather the root.

What is Qi/Chi/Ki?
Qi (sometimes written chi or ch'i and pronounced chee) is the invisible but fundamental energy that flows through everything and everyone in the universe. It's usually translated as "energy," but Qi is more than that. It's the life force of all living things, but it's also the energy found in all nonliving things.

After a few days of naturopathic treatment, you might feel worse, not better. You're going through a perfectly normal healing crisis. A healing crisis usually lasts for only a day or two after that, you'll probably start to feel much better.

TCM sees the person as an integral Mind/body organism, thereby does not treat just symptoms/diseases. TCM ventures to stimulate the bodies natural healing potential by treating root causes rather than just symptoms.
TCM, used in the treatment of infertility, minimizes undesired side effects and accumulated toxicity from invasive procedures and drug therapies, known and unknown.

Traditional Chinese medicine may be used to strengthen and balance one's general health so that IVF, GIFT, ZIFT, ICSI, AHT and TET procedures are more effective. The TCM patient derives general health benefits and endocrine system balancing from specific acupuncture and herbal regimes. Pregnancy becomes easier to achieve and postpartum recuperation happens faster. Medical studies have been done in China to verify this type of whole body health enhancement.

The widespread use of TCM suggests that it is a complete traditional medical health care system and can be used with or without the integration of Western medical techniques. The integration of Western medicine, as we know it in America, began in the Orient less than a century ago. It is called INTEGRAL CHINESE MEDICINE (ITCM). Ancient medical techniques of acupuncture and herbs utilized with modern procedures seem to work best.