Acupuncture in the Denver, Colorado area

The Classical True Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine clinic is conveniently located in South Denver, Colorado (Centennial), minutes from Aurora, Castle Rock, Cherry Hills Village, DTC, Denver Tech Center, Englewood, Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Lone Tree, and Parker, Colorado.

What can acupuncture treat?

The World Health Organization has published a list or conditions they recommend acupuncture for (WHO recommended conditions for acupuncture). As you can see from the list, there are a great many health conditions acupuncture can treat even by the WHO standards.

Acupuncture as primary care

What we have to remember is that acupuncture has been a primary care modality for thousands of years in different parts of the world. People relied on it to treat everything. George Soulie de Morant learned True Acupuncture in the early 1900s in China and went on to use it as primary care in France. Morant demonstrated that acupuncture was equal to, if not more effective in many areas, than Western Medicine. In fact, for Morant it was capable of treating any functional disorder. Where he drew the line with acupuncture was in treating lesions. He believed that other measures were needed when lesions were the cause of health care problems.

Through our research, we have seen acupuncture treat many conditions very easily–conditions that we were told in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) school that acupuncture could not treat or treated poorly. We’ve seen just the opposite. We’ve seen acupuncture work amazingly well across all functional conditions and superiorly to any other form of treatment that we know of. This is why we adhere to Morant’s teachings and apply Classical True Acupuncture primarily.

Acupuncture Specialties

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Moxibustion

Moxibustion involves burning dried herbs over specific areas or points of the body. The herb commonly used is called mugwort (artemesia vulgaris) – or a blend of mugwort and other herbs—and is referred to as “moxa.” Moxa comes in many forms: moxa ‘punk’ or loose moxa, sticks of varying sizes, small grains, and many others, and can be burned indirectly over or directly on the body. Moxa’s strong warming quality warms the qi (energy) and blood and improves circulation, especially in disorders characterized by cold, such as menstrual disorders, digestive complaints, and arthritic pain.

Cupping

Cupping is highly beneficial in releasing musculoskeletal tension and pain (which correlates to “stagnation” in the meridian pathways in Oriental Medicine) and removing “pathogens” to alleviate symptoms of the common cold, flu, and other respiratory disorders, amongst other benefits. A vacuum is created by heating the air within a specialized glass cup that is then placed flush against the patient’s skin. As the air cools in the cup, a vacuum forms that pulls the skin and underlying fascia into the opening of the cup, stimulating the acupressure effect. There are numerous cupping techniques, and while it is a virtually painless procedure, the results may appear a bit unsightly as bruising is common due to the fact that blood is brought out of the vessels—no, bleeding does not occur.

Gua sha

Gua sha, also called “scraping therapy,” is a technique that involves repeated pressurized strokes over pre-oiled skin with a smooth-edged instrument such as a ceramic Chinese soup spoon, a well worn coin, a polished piece of water buffalo horn, or a piece of jade. With firm pressure, the smooth edge is “scraped” on the surface of the skin along meridian pathways. Similar to the cupping method, this results in the appearance of small red petechiae, referred to as ‘sha.’ This practice removes blood stagnation and promotes circulation and metabolic processes. The marks on the skin may be slightly tender, but are not painful and, in fact, the patient experiences immediate relief from symptoms such as pain, stiffness, cough, and fever.

Electro-Acupuncture (E-Stim)

Electro-acupuncture, also called e-stim or electrical stimulation, is used to provide greater stimulation of an acupuncture point. According to Acupuncture Today, a trade journal for acupuncturists:

Electroacupuncture is quite similar to traditional acupuncture in that the same points are stimulated during treatment. As with traditional acupuncture, needles are inserted on specific points along the body. The needles are then attached to a device that generates continuous electric pulses using small clips. These devices are used to adjust the frequency and intensity of the impulse being delivered, depending on the condition being treated. Electroacupuncture uses two needles at time so that the impulses can pass from one needle to the other. Several pairs of needles can be stimulated simultaneously, usually for no more than 30 minutes at a time.” (Acupuncture Today: Electroacupuncture, Feb. 1, 2004)

The sensation felt is a mild tapping, tingling, or buzzing where the needle is inserted, and electro-acupuncture is considered to be especially useful for conditions in which there is an accumulation of qi, such as in chronic pain syndromes, or in cases where the qi is difficult to stimulate.

Convenient location of the clinic

The Classical True Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine clinic is conveniently located in South Denver, Colorado (Centennial), minutes from Aurora, Castle Rock, Cherry Hills Village, DTC, Denver Tech Center, Englewood, Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Lone Tree, and Parker, Colorado.

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Fuyiu Yip, MAOM, L.Ac., recently moved to Colorado and has opened her Classical True Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine practice in the south Denver area (Centennial/Englewood). She is a fully licensed acupuncturist in Colorado and graduated from the Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin.

She has gone on to specialize in True Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine. Her main focuses include pain, menopause, infertility, weight loss, and Cosmetic Acupuncture. Please read more about the techniques she uses here at her new Acupuncture N Herbs web site.

Fuyiu would like to take this opportunity to introduce herself to Colorado and invites you to come in or call (720-324-7171) for a free initial consultation to find out how her unique approach can help you, and if you mention this post she will give a $25 discount off your first treatment.

Convenient location of the clinic

The Classical True Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine clinic is conveniently located in South Denver, Colorado (Centennial), minutes from Aurora, Castle Rock, Cherry Hills Village, DTC, Denver Tech Center, Englewood, Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Lone Tree, and Parker, Colorado.

What is Stylostixis?

I doubt most people who read this have every heard the term stylostixis. “The Free Dictionary” gives the following definition, “treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin.”

Now does it sound familiar?

The medical term for acupuncture is stylostixis. Why don’t we use it? Most every “health care field” uses the “medical term” to describe their profession. Why don’t acupuncturists? Are we that unique or do we really want to give the impression of being less authoritative, less medical, and more woo woo?

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Aren’t Acupuncture and Chinese herbs only last resort treatment methods?

No!

Although, I do get a lot of patients who come in seeking acupuncture and herbs as a last resort because nothing else that they’ve tried has worked. Typically, these are cases where Western medicine has “given up” on the person or has nothing to offer, in essence, it’s where Western medicine may say, “We don’t know what to do with you anymore, so take this pill for the rest of your life or do nothing.”  [. . .]

What do you look for when you look for a licensed acupuncturist, Colorado?

Did you know. . .

In Colorado a Chiropractor can practice acupuncture with only 100 hours of training! In reality chiropractors don’t even need that many hours, really! A chiropractor, and certain other health care workers, can take a weekend class that will fulfill all 100 hours. Sure, they have to do some case studies after that but, come one?!?!?! A weekend course! How does that equate to 100 hours of training? Must be some new math that the Colorado legislation in Denver pulled out.

I know you think I’m kidding. I wish I were. When the licensing laws were passed for acupuncture in the state of Colorado the chiropractic board somehow got the legislators in Denver to agree to a 500 hour requirement for Chiropractors to practice acupuncture. Okay?!?! How did we get to 100 hours?

It turns out that the infinite wisdom in Denver allowed the chiropractic board to regulate chiropractors for acupuncture. In other words, the chiropractors don’t answer to the state to practice acupuncture?!?! Yeah, that’s what I thought.

Apparently the chiropractors thought that 500 hours was way too much work and somehow the chiropractic board agreed. What happened? They lowered the hours to 100. I guess they’re a smart bunch and can pick up anything. . . kind of like MD’s.

My big questions is, how on earth does a weekend class equal 100 hours? I still haven’t heard a good explanation of that one. Isn’t that a little ridicules? Do you think a Chiropractor would allow you to crack his/her spine after a weekend class? No way on this earth!

If you think that’s bad, just hold on cause it gets so much better.

In their infinite wisdom the Colorado legislatures thought that MD’s are apparently omniscient and don’t need to take any training to practice acupuncture. I’m serious! Allopathic Medical Doctors in the state of Colorado can practice acupuncture with zero hours of training! Do you think that an MD would let you practice allopathic medicine on him/her with zero hours of training? I’m sure you might do just as good but they would throw you in jail for even thinking about it!

I don’t even want to talk about the other “health care” professionals that need little to no training to practice acupuncture. I guess the Colorado state legislature thinks only Acupuncturist need training to practice acupuncture?!?!? Everyone else can do it with little or no training and they keep passing more legislation allowing more health care practitioners to practice it.

Denver is a huge metropolitan city and Boulder, one of THE alternative mecca’s in the United States, resides close by. In fact, Colorado as a whole has some of the highest numbers for alternative medical practitioners. So, what in the *&%! went on at the level of legislation in Colorado when it came to acupuncture? Aren’t they there to protect the public?!

I guess I must be the foolish one! I found that True Acupuncture was a very difficult thing to understand let alone apply, but I guess Chiropractors and Medical Doctors in Colorado are smarter than the rest of us. I think we should allow them to do anything and everything they want, don’t you?

They obviously know everything. . . so why bother with the training!

What do you think Colorado? Should just anybody be allowed to stick needles in you? [. . .]

The Classical True Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine clinic is conveniently located in South Denver, Colorado (Centennial), minutes from Aurora, Castle Rock, Cherry Hills Village, DTC, Denver Tech Center, Englewood, Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Littleton, Lone Tree, and Parker, Colorado.