Ping Feng
Traditional Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
40 Gordon Road, Mosgiel
ACC Provider
021 057-9528; 021 071-7975
Harmony & Balance
Whether you’re suffering from injury, illness or simply don’t feel quite right, traditional Chinese medicine may provide the relief that you’ve been seeking. What’s more, it can help you naturally, without resorting to surgery or to powerful drugs that can lead to dependency and a host of other negative side effects.
Ping is dedicated to helping those who suffer pain. She is careful to consider both emotional and lifestyle factors that affect her patients’ health and well being and devises individualized treatment plans that may incorporate acupuncture and related treatment modalities based upon their particular needs. Her goal is always to restore her patients to harmony and balance through compassion, insight and the application of skilled means.
My Approach
I’m an NZASA registered acupuncturist practising Tung-style acupuncture. I regard each patient as a whole, rather than an illness to be defeated. I believe in nurturing, rather than battling against the body. Get in touch with me today to start healing your mind, body, and soul.
Chinese Medicine
An Ancient Science
Chinese medicine views the body as a complex energetic system attuned to its natural environment. In the healthy state, these energies flow freely without impediment, regulating the body’s natural functions and processes. They can be negatively affected, however, by injury, strong emotions, or by the influence of external factors characterized as cold, wind, damp or heat, all of which work to obstruct the normal flow of vital energy referred to as Qi.
As an approach to healing based upon the principle of free and uninterrupted energy flow. Chinese medicine employs its various healing modalities to help activate the natural healing processes in each patient's body as well as to restore their physical and emotional well-being.
Acupuncture
Balance Your Qi
Acupuncture entails the gentle insertion of very fine needles into specific points on the body, stimulating the movement of energy, resolving blockages, and allowing natural healing to take place. My practice concentrates primarily upon acupuncture for pain relief and management and provides a minimally invasive treatment option for all manner of acute or chronic painful conditions whether resulting from injury or disease.
In addition to its well-known benefits for musculoskeletal pain and injury, acupuncture contributes to general wellness and disease prevention and is effective for a range of conditions that resist specific western medical diagnoses. Thus, patients who suffer from low energy and fatigue, who are overwhelmed by stress, experience moving sensations of pain, tingling or numbness, who feel heat, cold or discomfort in one or more parts of the body, or who simply “don’t feel right” may finally find the long-sought relief that has eluded them.
Moxibustion
Warm the Channels
Moxibustion is a focused-heat therapy that has been a component of traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. Often used in combination with acupuncture, moxibustion involves warming an area of the body—or specific acupoints, depending upon the condition— with heat emitted from the burning end of a moxa stick.
While moxibustion has a wide range of applications, practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine most typically use it to treat conditions that involve pain or stagnation within the body due to cold.
Owing to the long, oftentimes severe winters that we experience here in Otago, cold-related conditions and symptoms are especially prevalent. Coldness impedes circulation, causes contraction and slows the body’s internal functioning. Moxibustion can provide outstanding symptomatic relief and also assist in fine-tuning the biological processes required for optimal health maintenance.
Cupping
“Where there’s stagnation, there will be pain. Remove the stagnation, and you remove the pain.”
Cupping is a technique that typically uses small glass or plastic cups as suction devices that are placed on the skin to break up and disperse stagnation, remove toxins and stimulate the flow of qi, fresh blood and lymph.
Chinese medicine teaches that it is the stagnation of qi and blood that causes pain and disease. Cupping invigorates circulation of qi and blood in the area being treated, resolving swelling, pain, and tension. Applying this treatment along the acupuncture meridians opens the energetic channels with benefits for associated tissues and organ systems.
Cupping results in localized pain relief along with relaxation and increased pliability of stiff muscles, tendons and ligaments. Depending upon cup placement, joint mobility and range of motion may be improved owing to increased blood supply and the secretion of synovial fluid. Cupping is often recommended for patients for respiratory and digestive problems, headache, poor circulation, depression or anxiety.
"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
Buddha
Contact
40 Gordon Road
Mosgiel, 9024
New Zealand
021 057-9528; 021 071-7975