Gentle Tiger Acupuncture

Gentle Tiger Acupuncture’s
Mission Statement

1. To treat with compassion and integrity and do no harm

2. To provide the highest quality healthcare that addresses the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of the patients and community it serves.

3. To raise the public’s awareness and acceptance of Oriental Medicine’s benefits through education and treatment.

4. To treat with acupuncture and oriental medicine in a manner that not only restores balance, harmony, health and wellness but works preventatively against disease.

5. When necessary Gentle Tiger Acupuncture LLC will refer out to the highest quality resources available whether the need be health related or otherwise.

What is Acupuncture?

Basically, acupuncture is the ancient Chinese practice of inserting hair-thin needles under the skin in the effort to balance the body’s energy.

Although acupuncture has steadily increased in popularity since its introduction to the West in 1971, this Chinese medical practice is more than 5,000 years old. It was first written about in the 4,700-year-old text called Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine).

The ancient Chinese believed that there is a universal life energy called Chi or Qi (pronounced “chee”) present in everything. This energy consists of life’s essential aspects — spiritual, emotional, mental and physical — and circulates throughout the body along specific pathways called meridians.

As long as this energy flows freely through the meridians, health is maintained. But once the flow of energy is blocked, pain and illness occur. Acupuncture restores normal functions by stimulating points on the meridians in order to free up the Qi energy.

The National Institute of Health and the World Health Organization have proven acupuncture to be effective in the following areas:

Addictions, Anxiety, Arthritis, Asthma, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue, Colitis, Common Cold, Constipation, Dental Pain, Depression, Diarrhea, Digestive Trouble, Dizziness, Dysentery, Emotional Problems, Eye Problems, Facial Palsy / Tics, Fatigue, Fertility, Fibromyalgia, Gingivitis, Headache, Hiccup, Incontinence, Indigestion, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Low Back Pain, Menopause, Menstrual Irregularities, Migraine, Morning Sickness, Nausea, Osteoarthritis, Pain, PMS, Pneumonia, Reproductive Problems, Rhinitis, Sciatica, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Shoulder Pain, Sinusitis, Sleep Disturbances, Smoking Cessation, Sore Throat, Stress, Tennis Elbow, Tonsillitis, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Urinary Tract Infections, Vomiting