Treating autoimmune disease can be complicated, and it can be tiring to try dozens of techniques without feeling like you’re getting better. A lot of people feel lonely – like they may never get better.
At Good Needles, we want you to know that there’s hope. It may take some trial and error to find the treatments best for you, but we’ve had a lot of success treating autoimmune patients who couldn’t find relief, or only found limited relief, elsewhere.
We’ve helped patients who were allergic to their autoimmune disease medication find a treatment plan that worked for them. We’ve helped patients who wanted to find a protocol that worked with their medication that provided them with further relief.
Here are the techniques we use most often to help our patients find relief from autoimmune disease:
1. Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a powerful tool for helping your body find balance. If you’re struggling with autoimmune disease, your body is experiencing a misalignment that’s causing your immune system to attack your own cells.
Researchers struggle to find the exact cause of autoimmune disease. They know genetics, environmental factors, hormonal factors, stress, tissue damage, and medication can contribute to the rise of autoimmune disease.
When your body experiences these stressors, it can become confused and begin to work improperly. Acupuncture is based on the belief that your body possesses vital energy that’s responsible for the health of your organs, tissues, skin, and systems.
When this energy becomes blocked, you will feel ill and develop uncomfortable and painful symptoms. You can even develop autoimmune disease because your immune system loses the resources it needs to function correctly, causing malfunction.
Acupuncture targets the blockages in this energy to let the energy flow, like releasing a dam in a river. The needles act like tiny cell phone towers in your body’s electromagnetic field to help redirect the flow of energy.
We’ve seen incredible results with our autoimmune disease patients using acupuncture – some have even successfully reversed their disease altogether.
2. Herbal medicine
Herbal medicine can help regulate a range of functions, one of the most important for autoimmune treatment being inflammation. Others help regulate your immune system.
Herbs can contain natural compounds that interact with your body’s receptors to stimulate, slow, or regulate your body’s processes, systems, and responses. Helping these receptors work properly to receive the right triggers are crucial for avoiding disease and uncomfortable symptoms.
Ginger, green tea, garlic, turmeric, and many more are known to influence the processes and receptors that lead to inflammation.
Inflammation is one of the main reactions triggered when your body experiences an autoimmune trigger. Your cells attack themselves and create inflammation, which can lead to other painful symptoms.
3. Gua sha
Some autoimmune diseases involve lymphatic systems that struggle to drain. This can lead to a puffy or swollen face and neck, trouble breathing, and difficulty moving.
A swollen lymph means your immune system cannot drain and release waste and infectious cells, dramatically increasing your chances of infection.
Gua sha involves using a specially shaped rock massager to help drain the lymph and restore circulation to the treated area. It is an incredibly powerful tool for forcing drainage of stubborn areas that are resistant to other approaches.
4. Cupping
Many autoimmune diseases lead to swollen muscles and joints, which need extra attention and care to release and heal.
When other methods fail in reducing swelling, cupping can offer success. Suction is used to target particularly swollen areas – increasing blood flow and triggering the muscle or joint to relax.
Some studies even show that by increasing blood flow with cupping, your blood can more effectively clear itself of toxic and irritating compounds like inflammatory complexes and auto-antibodies.
5. Facial Rejuvenation
Facial rejuvenation is a specialized treatment that combines the above treatments with special patterns that specifically target your skin. Because many autoimmune diseases trigger skin irritations and reactions, it needs special help to find balance.
Our Facial Rejuvenation Experience includes acupuncture, herbal skincare treatments, cupping, gua sha, and light therapy to maximize healing to the skin. You can learn more about it here.
Autoimmune disease can be frustrating and isolating, but you’re not alone. You just need the right partner in health to help guide you through your disease and find options that work for your individual needs.
Schedule an appointment with Good Needles to tackle your autoimmune disease. We can help you find options when medication isn’t available or add natural approaches to your existing protocol to provide further relief. We can help you heal.
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