Five Element Acupuncture
For Holistic Balancing

Five Element Acupuncture focuses on the body and it’s alignment with the five energies or elements known as wood, fire, earth, metal and water. The organs of the body are each associated with a particular element.

Their characteristics help to establish which element they are connected to. This element connection is important both internally and externally, for it is believed that a perfect balance of these elements within the body equals the highest level of health a person can achieve. An imbalance on the contrary, leads to different ailments, pain and disease.

The Chinese use five element acupuncture to address these imbalances with the elements, both internally and externally. They have used acupuncture for over 3000 years for relief of pain, prevention and treatment of disease and even for anesthesia prior to surgery. Taking a look at your body and the five major organs you will be able to understand the theory of the five elements and how they work and affect our body.

The belief behind the five elements theory is that either when we are born or when we are very young, we develop a weakness in one of our elements. As we grow, this weakness has an impact on the other elements within our body.

This base element, the weak element that we have had since we were children is seen as the root of our problems and is the source of our imbalance. This weakness is then what your treatment will be focused on.

Now that the acupuncturist knows what is causing your imbalance in the elements they will chose different points on the meridians that are affected, that will have an impact on the other meridians.

So if your problems stem from a metal element weakness, which would be the lung and large intestine, they will use five element acupuncture to treat those meridians and as they do so, you should feel a difference, an improvement in not only the function of your lungs and large intestines and their associated emotions, but also in the symptoms that brought you to see them.

With the entire basis of your treatment being focused on the causative factor which is the element in which you have a weakness, you can see why it is important that the correct area be identified.

To help them determine where you really need the help, the acupuncturist has to take the time to talk to you, listen to you and observe you. They have to be able to figure out what are your primary symptoms, your secondary symptoms and then, in which element you have a in-born or early childhood weakness.

If you are interested in having a treatment that is based on the five elements it is important that you find an acupuncturist that has been trained in five element acupuncture.

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