INTEGRATIVE APPROACH
Functional & Chinese Medicine Analysis
My intake paperwork analyzes your health from birth to current, integrating a Functional and Chinese medical approach. Since Functional and Chinese medicine both view you as an integrated unit, details into your past and current symptoms, lifestyle, behavior, and mental state, are used to provide insight from both systems.
A Functional analysis of your serum labs provides additional insight. First I convert all of your markers into three categories: normal, functional ranges, and lab ranges. Within each range, the markers are qualified as low or high. This provides detailed insight into the state of your blood sugar, metabolic function, and nutritive state.
Chinese medicine combines your subjective insight into the quality and nature of your symptoms, with my objective assessment of the your tongue, pulse, and physical state, to determine a Chinese medical pattern. This pattern determines my treatment principles when applying Acupuncture and/or a Chinese herbal formulation.
My intake paperwork also assesses your goals, level of commitment and needed support. Together, we devise a treatment plan that is practical, therefore achievable. There is a high amount of variability of what that can look like, and it is a process, so I try to stay flexible to help you how you need to be helped.
