Pregnancy Acupuncture Kaya

Treatments and Services

At Mitchell Family Acupuncture in Berkeley we join the power of acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutrition, and energetic practices to bring balance to your body. This allows your body to heal itself naturally and prevent further illness. Traditional Chinese Medicine is accepted and recognized globally as a safe, effective and integrated medical system. 

Other therapies can be included in the treatment as needed including gua sha (a spooning technique on the surface of the skin), cupping, moxabustion therapy, meridian massage, abdominal massage and nutritional advice. Herbs and supplements may be recommended according to your needs.

Prenatal Massage, Mayan Abdominal Massage and good old fashioned feel good bodywork round out our offerings.

Acupuncture

Your acupuncture treatments will be approximately one hour and consist of review of your present health condition, including important diagnostic questions to determine the state of your system constitutionally. Your acupuncturist will take your pulse and look at your tongue on every visit.

You will rest quietly with the acupuncture needles for 20 or more minutes.

Massage

We offer deeply therapeutic organic Prenatal Massage, Arvigo - Mayan Abdominal Massage and Swedish Massage. Please see our team bios for more information.

One hour and one and one half hour sessions are available.

Herbal Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine is a complete system of medicine. Herbal medicine is an essential component of this system. While acupuncture calls on your body to regulate itself, herbal medicine introduces powerful medicinal substances to aid in your body's return to balance.

Herbal medicines are designed to normalize the bodies functioning and restore harmony to the constitution. They are prescribed for each person specifically for their constitution and imbalance. Medicinal herbal therapy works with acupuncture by providing the nourishing support for the energetic re-programming and balancing efforts of acupuncture.

 

Herbs for Fertility

Herbal Formulas and Pharmacopeia

Herbal medicine has been safely and effectively used for thousands of years to promote health and heal disease. Over 10,000 natural substances are catalogued in Chinese herbal pharmacopoeia.

At Mitchell Family Acupuncture our team calls on over four hundred of the most highly studied of these herbs as well as many local western herbs.

Personalized Medicine

In our practice herbs are most often prescribed in formula, a combinations of herbs tailored for you, rather than singly. The synergy of combining herbs vastly increase the medicinal effects. Blending herbs in this way also allows your acupuncturist to tailor the medicine specifically for your needs.

We often prescribe herbs in relationship to the phases of your cycle so you may have one formula to take during your follicular phase and another during your luteal phase.

 
  • “ I can't say enough good things about Amy.  I saw her when my partner and I were trying to conceive our second child and throughout my pregnancy.  She was thorough, thoughtful, and compassionate.  Her care really helped ease both the physical and emotional challenges of conception and pregnancy. “
    — H.L.
  • “ A dear friend who happens to be an Emergency Doctor led me straight away to Amy when I told her I was looking for a fertility acupuncturist. The minute I met Amy I knew I met a very special person and healer. I highly recommend Amy and feel blessed and secure knowing she is by my side on my fertility journey. ”
    — T.B.
  • “ I’ve been having chronic back and wrist pains for about seven years now. The acute pain in my wrist and the ongoing back issues became too much for me.  Alison treated me, and within 2 visits the pain had subsided. After a few more visits, I couldn’t believe the difference it made! ”
    — J.H.
  • “ My patient who I referred to Alison began to weep when she described her experience of acupuncture with Alison to me. The relief was so tangible that any doubt she had in her mind about the efficacy of the medicine was gone. ”
    — A.M.
 

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