Holistic Women's Health Care Rooted in Tradition and Compassion

Support your reproductive wellness naturally with expert acupuncture and Chinese medicine from Lisa Meyerson, L.Ac., serving Evanston and the greater Cook and Lake County areas.

If you’re a woman, and you want to support your body and treat your reproductive system ailments holistically, reach out to Lisa Meyerson, L.Ac, at Lisa Meyerson Acupuncture in Evanston, Illinois, serving all of Cook and Lake County. Lisa specializes in holistic medicine and traditional Chinese medicine and methods for using it for women’s health. To get started, call or use the online booking tool today.

Women's Health Q & A

Can Chinese medicine improve women’s health?

Chinese medicine offers women an alternative way to care for their health. Instead of pain medications and uncomfortable procedures, with Chinese medicine, you can enjoy health support via:

  • Acupuncture 
  • Herbal Chinese therapy 
  • Massage
  • Therapeutic nutrition counseling

Together or alone, these therapies and supports can transform women’s health.

Can traditional Chinese medicine increase fertility?

If you’re struggling to get pregnant, Chinese medicine may help you become more fertile. Typically, they work by balancing your whole body, thereby making your body, including your reproductive system, work better.

Some herbs, such as Tribulus terrestris, normalize irregular ovulation. Chinese herbal medicine can also support the success of a pregnancy.

How can acupuncture support women’s health?

Acupuncture offers women a sustainable, noninvasive, and nonchemical way to address a variety of women's health issues, supporting women during different periods of their lives. Examples include:

PMS

By encouraging circulation and releasing natural painkilling chemicals, acupuncture helps regulate your cycle and relieves PMS symptoms like cramps, headaches, and various aches and pains.

Menopause and perimenopause

Similarly, acupuncture, alone or with Chinese herbal therapy, can help relieve menopause and perimenopause symptoms, including hot flashes, anxiety, insomnia, night sweats, vaginal dryness, and heart palpitations.

Pregnancy and postpartum

During pregnancy, acupuncture can reduce morning sickness, lower back pain, and pelvic discomfort. After delivery, many women find that acupuncture lessens postpartum depression and strengthens their body as it heals and as the breasts produce milk.

Aging

Acupuncture can reduce wrinkles and fine lines and reduce facial puffiness associated with aging. It works because it stimulates the circulatory system and increases the blood flow to the face.

Acupuncture can also address issues that affect women more than men, such as:

Depression and anxiety

Acupuncture treatments can help depression, anxiety, and panic attacks by lowering blood pressure and reducing stress. It also helps reduce hormonal anxiety. Note that you should never stop taking your prescribed medications without consulting your physician first.

Fibromyalgia

Acupuncture can reduce the pain of fibromyalgia by stimulating the release of “feel good” chemicals and painkilling chemicals in the brain.

Acupuncture can also help with pain from fibroids and endometriosis.

If you’re ready to apply the ancient wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine to your female health concerns, contact Lisa today for a consultation. To schedule yours, call or use the online booking tool.

What is acupuncture?

Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese health practice that involves the use of sterile needles. During an acupuncture session, practitioners place these needles in your skin at various acupuncture points. 

The goal of acupuncture is to relieve pain, discomfort, and various emotional, behavioral, and physical health problems.

How does acupuncture work?

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the body has more than 2,000 acupuncture points, which connect with the meridians. Meridians are pathways that move like rivers and conduct energy, or qi, between the body’s organs and surfaces.

When a meridian becomes blocked, your qi can’t flow correctly, and your mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional health can suffer in various ways. 

Traditional acupuncture, also known as five-element acupuncture, also operates on the concept that five universal elements (earth, wood, fire, water, and metal) affect your emotions, health, and personality. Everyone feels one element more powerfully than the others.

By inserting needles at carefully selected points, acupuncturists stimulate the flow in the blocked area and restore the balance of yin and yang in the body.

Western scientists have various theories on acupuncture. For example, some believe that it works by activating the central nervous system and causing it to release chemicals that either change how the body experiences pain or alter the body’s self-regulating system.

How can acupuncture help me?

At her practice, Lisa offers acupuncture therapy for countless ailments and conditions, including:

💚Migraines and other headaches 💚Lower back pain 💚Neck pain 💚Knee pain 💚Osteoarthritis pain 💚Respiratory issues 💚Digestive problems 💚Emotional and mental health struggles, such as anxiety and depression

Acupuncture can also help with things like addiction control, smoking cessation, chronic fatigue, and bladder dysfunction. Some patients even turn to acupuncture for help with allergy symptoms.

Does acupuncture hurt?

Typically, acupuncture does not hurt. In fact, you can barely feel their insertion into the skin. During treatment, you may sense a feeling of movement or spreading, or perhaps an achy or heavy sensation. Practitioners call this sensation de qi. 

At the end of your session, you’ll likely feel deeply relaxed and calm.

To learn if it might be a good fit for you, schedule an appointment with Lisa online or over the phone today.



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