Traditional Chinese Medicine uses a variety of effective therapies separately or together to stimulate the bodies own natural healing process. Determining which therapies will be most useful to you will be dependant on your constitution and the nature of imbalance you experience. An assessment by an experienced, lisenced practitioner will help determine which modalities will be useful for your constitution.

Keep in mind, Nutrition is key in healing for everyone. Feeding yourself according to your constitution will be part of an overall healing foundation and is central in the approach at Flowering.

Nutrition & Food Cures "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food". Nutrition is central in our well being. Besides over all good nutrition and mindful eating practices, specific foods and supplementation can be employed for short periods to nourish and heal disharmony within any given organ system. Contrary to modern TCM belief, a Raw Food or Living Food lifestyle may be a big part of finding good health.

Medicinal Herbs are powerful medicines and best employed with the guidance of an experienced practitioner. Plant and mineral sources are ingested or applied externally to restore balance and harmony to the body-mind-spirit complex.  Herbal Medicine is used along with Lifestyle and nutritional changes.

Body Awareness & Conditioning is essential to feeling and looking well.  Keeping a balanced fitness program will increase strength, stamina, energy, suppleness as well as self-confidence.  This must however be in harmony with restful practices and sleep.

Breath Work & Visualization otherwise known as Qi Gong or Pranayama and meditation, regulation of breath and mindful practices promotes healing by restoring proper circulation and calming the mind.   Oxygen is vital to life – nourishing, detoxifying and calming.  Exploration of your breath and focused concentration will boost the effect of all other therapies and is something you can do at home.

Acupuncture attempts to restore equilibrium to the body’s life-force (Qi) and the active and restoring functions by insertion of filiform needles in specifically chosen points.  These pre-sterilized, disposable needles are extremely thin and at most a slight prick sensation on insertion.  You may feel the initial prick of insertion followed by a local feeling of warmth, dull distension or heaviness, the sensations of Qi.  Needles remain in place usually 1 – 30 minutes depending on the purpose of treatment.

TuiNa & Self-massage Chinese body work incorporates massage with acupressure to restore proper balance and circulation.  TuiNa may at times be more vigorous than traditional massage.

Focused Heat applied to affected areas of the body.  Moxabustion, heat produced from a burning herb called Mugwart or heat from a TDP lamp (far infrared heat) is used  for conditions such as muscular and joint pain, digestive disorders and much more. 

Cupping glass cups used to create a partial vacuum placed strategically on the skin.  Cupping may be used for conditions such as back pain, chest congestion related to cold or bronchitis, headaches, dizziness, cough, asthma and muscular-skeletal problems for example.

GuaSha is a therapy that scrapes the flesh with a spoon or smooth surface used to open the exterior or surface of the body (most often the back) in order to release pathogens that are trapped there as well as for stimulating stagnant energies.  This treatment is effective for muscular disorders as well as cold and flu symptoms.

Auricular Therapy acupuncture needles or small seeds are used to stimulate acupuncture points within the ear.  Ear seeds are applied with adhesive tape to prolong effect of treatment.