Avenue Acupuncture FAQs

Through Qi Gong practice, you can feel the energy begin to stir within you and radiate into your extremities. This can sometimes feel like warmth, light, electricity, or just a feeling of something “stirring inside.”

The benefits of Qi Gong practice include increased energy, decreased anxiety, better sleep, stronger muscles, improved organ function, and increased awareness.

Diaphragmatic breathing means expanding your abdomen during inhalation to help descend the diaphragm and increase air uptake. This also increases blood flow by massaging the lower aortic valve, aids digestion by massaging the stomach and intestines, and increases oxygenated blood.

Meridians are energetic acupuncture lines where energy is thought to be most prominent, with each line attributed to a different organ. Qi Gong practice typically focuses on one or more of these meridians to increase the effectiveness of the practice.

Cupping is a treatment that uses cups to create local suction on the skin. A vacuum is formed inside the cup, which is then placed on specific areas, typically the back, drawing the skin and muscles into the cup.

After the cup is left on the skin for a time, it usually leaves marks, indicating areas of obstruction or inflammation. Cupping is completely safe, and while the marks can look alarming, they’re just a sign that your body needed the treatment.

Cupping is used to increase circulation to a specific area, increase muscle mobility, relieve tension, treat respiratory conditions, break up obstructions, and help the body remove toxins. It’s most commonly used to treat muscle tension, coughs and colds, stomach problems, respiratory conditions, and swelling caused by lymph accumulation.

Our hours are Monday 8:00am to 7:00pm, Tuesday 12:00pm to 7:00pm, Wednesday 8:00am to 7:00pm, Thursday 8:00am to 7:00pm, and Friday 8:00am to 2:00pm.

The herbs prescribed at our clinic are all in granular form and come from Evergreen Herbs, one of the safest and most effective herb manufacturers. This means it’s a simple matter of dissolving your powdered formula in warm water to drink, rather than decocting raw herbs yourself.

Chinese herbs are rarely prescribed on their own. Unlike modern medicine, where a single drug targets a single symptom, Chinese herbs are almost always prescribed as a formula custom-tailored to you, targeting the underlying imbalance causing your symptoms. A formula usually contains 4 to 20 different herbs: typically 1 or 2 carry the greatest clinical effect, while the rest assist those main herbs, address other issues you may have, and help guide the formula to where it’s needed.