Karing Vitality For Health’s Karen M. Yost will soon be offering Asian medical services to be announced in May 2008.  To recieve an announcement of her opening day of practice at her new location go to email signup on this website

Karen M. Yost just graduated from Pacific College of  Oriental Medicine

These services in Asian medicine will include acupuncture, herbal medicine, cupping, moxibustion, electro-acupuncture, hot pack application and more.

What is acupunture?

One of the many theories is that acupuncture acts on our parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems.

Our parasympathetic nervous system is the process of time in which we rest and digest which are the building blocks to build our nutritive stores for energy.  In Asian medicine this is what we refer to as the yin of the body.

Our sympathetic nervous system is the process of time in which we have a fight or flight response and at this time we are breaking down the nutritive stores using it for energy.  In Asian medicine this is what we refer to as the yang of the body.  This explains it’s effectiveness not only in healing pain,  but also it’s effectiveness on problems that people have internally in the body such as organs, bone, etc.

You have many acupuncture points all over your body that have specific functions that along with herbal medicine and other Asian modalities help balance these two systems and therefore based on what the patient is coming in for we can choose specific points as well as other modalities (herbs, moxa, etc) to bring these two systems back into homeostatic balance.