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Check out these resources to learn more about Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proved to be an effective treatment:

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  • Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy

  • Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)

  • Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)

  • Dysmenorrhoea (period cramps, painful periods)

  • Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)

  • Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)

  • Headache

  • Induction of labour

  • Knee pain

  • Low back pain

  • Malposition of fetus, correction of

  • Morning sickness

  • Nausea and vomiting

  • Neck pain

  • Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)

  • Periarthritis of shoulder

  • Postoperative pain

  • Rheumatoid arthritis

  • Sciatica

  • Sprain

  • Stroke

  • Tennis elbow 

Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed:

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  • Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)

  • Alcohol dependence and detoxification

  • Bell’s palsy

  • Bronchial asthma

  • Cancer pain

  • Competition stress syndrome

  • Craniocerebral injury, closed

  • Earache

  • Epistaxis (nose bleeds), simple (without generalized or local disease)

  • Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection

  • Female infertility

  • Facial spasm

  • Fibromyalgia and fasciitis

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  • Hypo-ovarianism

  • Insomnia

  • Labour pain

  • Lactation, deficiency

  • Male sexual dysfunction

  • Obesity

  • Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence

  • Osteoarthritis

  • Polycystic ovary syndrome, PCOS (Stein–Leventhal syndrome)

  • Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)

  • Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome

  • Sore throat (including tonsillitis)

  • Spine pain, acute

  • Stiff neck

  • Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ)

  • Tobacco dependence (quit smoking)

Please click here to view current schedule availability. 

 

Appointments may be available outside these hours.

Please contact to inquire. 

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Pointed Relief 

603 Slocan St.

Slocan City, BC

pointedrelief@gmail.com

250-551-9324

Adrienne Perkins R.Ac

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