Alternative Health Group LLC: BLOG http://althealthgroup.com/blog How to become and stay healthy with Acupuncture, Chinese Medicine, Massage, Yoga & Tai Chi Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:32:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Colds, Flu and Acupuncture http://althealthgroup.com/blog/2008/11/05/colds-flu-and-acupuncture/ http://althealthgroup.com/blog/2008/11/05/colds-flu-and-acupuncture/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:28:03 +0000 Administrator http://althealthgroup.com/blog/2008/11/05/colds-flu-and-acupuncture/ In Chinese Medicine, there are different patterns that manifest when one has a cold. Technically, they are different stages of the pathology. Acupuncture and herbs can help relieve all the stages of a cold or flu. It has been done for thousands of years.

So what you can do is very easy if you feel like you are coming down with a cold. If you start getting shivers make a tea infusion of ginger, honey, lemon and a little cinnamon and have that for a couple of days.

If it persists get some herbs from your acupuncturist or herbalist. It will turn to heat you will need herbs that are more cooling in nature.

Stay healthy

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Call or write your HR department and ask them to negotiate acupuncture in to your plan. This can be done in addition to your regular plan.
Insurance company are vying for your business so you can ask for coverage and they will say yes. They may limit the number of visits per year so try to get as many as possible. If they say 12 visits ask for 30.

The more people ask for it the more likely you will be covered.

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Call us and make an appointment

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