Acupuncturists view the body differently than western physicans. Chinese medicine practitioners treat patients based on the theory that life occurs as a result of the opposing forces of Yin and Yang.

Yin and Yang can be identified as night and day, cold and hot, winter and summer, etc. When these two polar opposites are in harmony, health is in balance.

Tools such as interviewing, pulse taking and tongue diagnoses help to discover why these symptoms are occuring.

Appropriate acupuncture points are chosen and very fine, sterile needles are painlessly inserted into individual points on the body. These points function to influence the Qi, blood and the Yin in order to restore balance to the body.