Naturopathic Medicine Treatment
When you schedule your initial appointment, your first step will be to complete a detailed health questionnaire which asks you about the various facets of your health and life. This is an important tool for you and us to discover the factors affecting your total health.
First Clinic Visit
In this 60-minute visit, we will explore your complete health history. Relevant physical examination will occur, or be deferred until the second visit. Appropriate laboratory testing may be scheduled if necessary.
Second Visit
This visit commonly begins with a physical exam, followed by a thorough review of findings from the lab testing, physical exam, and the initial visit. A personal treatment plan is discussed including what to expect as you heal.
Follow-Up Visits
Your next follow-up will usually be in 3-4 weeks to ensure your health is improving as expected. Modifications to your treatment plan may occur. Follow-up visits will depend on your progress toward health and your specific needs.
Preventive Health Care Visits
Our goal is not only to help you improve your health now, but to prevent future illness as well. It is much easier, more sensible and less expensive to keep your body healthy than to allow illness to take root and then work to eradicate it. Coming in for periodic preventive health care visits is a valuable way for us to stay current with new developments in your health and to prevent future disease.
Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Treatment
New patients will receive diagnostic evaluation by either Ellen Goldsmith, L.Ac., or Gary Weiner, N.D., L.Ac., both licensed acupuncturists and Chinese medicine herbalists.
When you schedule your first appointment, your first step will be to complete a detailed health questionnaire which asks you about the various facets of your health and life. This is an important tool for you and your acupuncturist to discover the factors affecting your total health.
First Clinic Visit
Your acupuncturist will spend 60 minutes with you exploring your health history, your chief concerns and goals. After examination of pulse and tongue, palpation of points and meridians, an acupuncture treatment is given. A treatment plan usually involves a series of weekly acupuncture treatments, nutritional recommendations and customized Chinese herbal formulas to take care of the health issues.
Follow-Up Visits
Acupuncture is commonly more effective when received on a regular basis, weekly for at least 6-10 treatments. Follow-up with treatment of Chinese herbs is commonly every 2-3 weeks.
Chinese Herbal Medicines
Chinese herbal medicines are customized to meet your individual needs. Herbs are dispensed as powders, pills, or raw herbs to be made as a tea. Our herbs are of the highest quality and are verified by lab analysis to be free of heavy metals or pesticides. All herbal formulas are combinations of several herbs which, when put together, have a specific effect upon the body. All herbal formulas are adjusted regularly for improved effect.