In this short video Matt Dippl CMD, the founder and director of the Canberra Acupuncture Clinic, will outline the major strategies that are needed to create optimum wellness and vibrant health. Please leave your comments or questions below the video.
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Are you afraid of badly healed injuries, thick scar tissue and minimized function after an injury has healed?
If yes – then the article below will be very informative for you. I will explain how you can avoid wound healing that creates excessive scarring, tight tissues and decreased funtionality.
The aim of acupuncture treatment
The aim of acupuncture is to lower the inflammatory response and to maintain adequate blood flow to the injured area. Once the blood flows, nutrients and oxygen are being delivered to speed up healing.
Metabolic waste removal and nutrient delivery
At the same time metabolic waste will be removed efficiently from the site of injury. Then it makes sense to take specific herbs and supplements to provide to the body what it needs. This is my “secret” for fast wound healing and recovery. Each modality on their own will have less effect.
Acupuncture induces relaxation
As well the increased level of relaxation of your muscles after massage, acupuncture and soft tissue therapy will allow your blood vessels to deliver more blood and nutrients into the tissues that are affected. This will speed up your recovery dramatically.
Blood stagnation reduces nutrient delivery
First the delivery system has to work properly then you have to deliver the right building blocks. In a sprained ankle for example when the tissue becomes blue and swollen this is a sign that the blood and energy are stagnated.
The use of acupuncture reduces swelling in acute injury
In this case acupuncture can be used reduce the swelling by bleeding the area and thus removing the circulation and drawing fresh nutrient and oxygen rich blood into the area. Anything that is stagnant will cause long term problems and healing won’t be optimal.
Below I will cover a few nutrients and herbs that will help with your wound healing and recovery.
How to speed up your bone repair
Calcium hydroxyappetite is the most effective form of calcium for bone uptake. Combining it with nutrients like magnesium, boron, lysine, zinc, copper and vitamin D3 increases calcium uptake into the bones.
If your bone is broken and immobilized in a cast there is accelerated bone breakdown and hence increased calcium leaches into the blood. This may increase kidney stone formation. Supplementation is recommended once your cast is removed.
Calcium requires adequate magnesium for ideal uptake into your bones. For those that are both calcium and magnesium deficient, initially supplementing with high doses of calcium and magnesium, then after several months you can move to a combined calcium & magnesium supplement.
What your joints need to heal
Nutrients such as, glucosamine sulphate, type II collagen, gelatine and microcrystalline hydroxyapatite strengthen and repair these tissues and reduce pain and stiffness. Nutrients such as silica, magnesium, lysine, vitamin C and manganese are required for connective tissue strength and repair.
How to lower inflammation in your tissues
Use powerful anti-inflammatory herbs and nutrients, including tumeric, willow bark, ginger and quercetin to rapidly reduce acute pain, swelling, stiffness and/or disability associated with acute injury.
EPA Fish Oil healing properties
High potency fish oil (EPA) is particularly antinflammatory and helps support to healthy healing. Use EPA’s on a daily level.
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Vital Greens is a nutrient and enzyme-rich, complete “Superfood”This is a product I basically prescribe to every client of the Canberra Acupuncture Clinic. Simply because it is so outstanding and versatile. I personally know the guys who have developed this product and it surely is of the highest standard, quality and purity.
I am using it myself on a daily level to cover basic nutritional needs. Below some more info on VG. Enjoy the read and learn more about it.
Vital Greens contains over 70 nutrients essential to deliver optimal health, energy and vitality to every cell in your body. These essential nutrients include naturally occurring whole food source vitamins and both macro and trace minerals.
Together with powerful antioxidants, pro- biotics for intestinal health, essential amino-acids, essential fatty acids (both Omega 3 and 6), digestive enzymes, cell pigments, plant sterols and fibers.
All these nutrients combine synergistically to provide a balanced nutritional support from real food that’s alive instead of synthetically made vitamin pills. This combination will supply your body with the raw material it needs daily for optimum health and vitality – in a powder form for easy and complete absorption.
Vital Greens was devised by two Sydney naturopaths/medical herbalists with a total of 26 years of clinical experience between them. It was designed to meet the day to day nutritional needs of people living in a far from perfect world.
Vital Greens is designed specifically to support everybody wanting an energizing, cleansing, alkaline- promoting, all-in-one nutritional supplement. The body’s daily nutritional needs from A to Z is here-in one great tasting powder!
Most of us recognise the need for supplements to counteract the fast foods, toxins, stresses, lack of sleep and challenges we face in daily life. To recognise the need for vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, protein etc is one thing. To know where to start is another!
When we purchase all the essentials individually it becomes confusing, quite cumbersome and very costly. Vital Greens is the first formula ever to offer the widest variety of so many superfoods in just one convenient, economical formula which you just mix in your favourite juice, soy milk or even water.
Vital Greens works as a:
Vital greens will help with detoxifying and gently cleansing your colon, liver and working on every single cell in the body. The unique combination of nutrients will help your body progressively eliminate waste which builds up on the bowel walls, cleansing the liver which is the body’s main filter organ and emulsify fat helping to maintain healthy cholesterol and blood pressure levels.
Vital Greens contains many superfoods to help give you more energy, feel more vibrant and less sluggish and stressed. Alkalinity is promoted which results in feeling more balanced and alive!
Vital Greens contains potent antioxidants, adaptogenic herbs boosting stamina, endurance and the immune system. Powerful phyto- nutrients building health from the very basics of the cell.
Vital Greens contains Lecithin, Gotu Kola, Rosemary and Co-Enzyme Q-10 which may help increase mental acuity, focus and concentration.
Isn’t it supposed to be the most important meal of the day? That it is! It can make or break your day’s moods, energy and con- centration levels. Most people are rushed, especially in the morning. It’s difficult to prepare a protein-rich breakfast without cooking let alone find the time to eat it! Vital Greens provides all your whole day’s requirements in a great tasting, appetite-satisfying form that takes less than a minute to prepare and drink. A real solution to an age old problem!
A month’s supply of Vital Greens at 10g per day costs $73.45. That works out at $2.45 per day! No other supplement is needed to provide a complete nutrition programme. Most people spend more on a cup of coffee and just how healthy is that?
Vital Greens was designed to provide you with all your daily nutrition needs without having to take multivitamin pills, laxatives etc. If you should choose to take extra vitamins or other nutrients please check with a health care professional first.
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Acupuncture and Adrenal fatigueAdrenal fatigue can become a big problem when you over train. Acupuncture might be of great help if you suffer from this condition. Let’s discuss what constitutes adrenal fatigue and some if it’s causes. The sad fact is that many athletes suffer from this condition and may not even realize it.
Adrenal fatigue occurs when your body is subjected to excessive amounts of stress over a longer period of time without adequate rest, nutritional intake or exercise. Long term stress leads to exhaustion and long term exhaustion can lead to fatigue or in the worst case scenario to chronic fatigue.
Your adrenal glands are responsible to manage the fight or flight response when you enter stressful life situations. Your adrenals are also responsible for hormone production that our bodies need on a daily level to function properly. Some of them are sex hormones which will influence your libido and sex drive.
When you are overly stressed, your adrenal glands are overworked by producing cortisol in answer to the stress that you are exposed to. Cortisol will keep you going and energized during the day. The adrenal glands then won’t produce the other hormones that we need to function properly in our daily lives.
So what are the signs and symptoms of adrenal fatigue? When you have this problem you do not feel well in the morning without several cups of coffee. As well you will feel like you need a nap in the afternoon. You will always feel like your energy is lacking and you are not able to perform all the tasks that you need to do on a daily basis.
There is a basic lack of drive bordering on depression and moodiness even. Other symptoms of adrenal fatigue include craving a large amount of carbohydrates and being so wired that you have to stay up until the middle of the night even though you feel exhausted the next day.
Adrenal fatigue seems to be more prevalent in women than in men but it does affect both sexes. There have been studies that show that it may be linked to fibromyalgia and hypothyroidism as well. Some things that have been reported to reduce the effects of adrenal fatigue include super foods, Chinese herbal medicines and acupuncture.
Dietary changes include changing the times and amounts of food eaten during the day. Low blood sugar or hypoglycemia can lead to additional stress in your body as well so small frequent meals can improve this situation. Foods should be included in the diet that nurtures the kidney. They are beans, barley, pork, sprouts, eggs, sardines and blueberries.
Adrenal fatigue is seen in Chinese medicine as a Kidney deficiency. It is treated with the Kidney Yin building herbs in the first step of the treatment which lasts for a period of two to four months. This phase is followed by treatment with the Kidney Yang tonics. Acupuncture points can be stimulated for the kidney and may be self-applied just inside the ankle between the medial malleolus and the Achilles tendon by massaging the area clockwise for five minutes on each side of the foot daily.
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Australia Talks 27 July 2010
Let’s face it – acupuncture is regarded as a modality that delivers results. For many different conditions. And western medicine alone obviously can’t handle our health problem in a preventative and curative way. Only we can help our selves.
More and more Australians are turning to complementary and alternative health services, spending a record $3.5 billion on such treatments last financial year.
What is driving this trend? And is there evidence that these therapies achieve what they promise?
Acupuncture and Natural Medicine Pod Cast Link
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