Traditional Chinese Medicine refers to a ‘Heart Attack’ as ‘Heart Blood Stagnation’. While a heart monitor is a vital diagnostic tool for a cardiologist, Acupuncturists are well trained in examining the pulse and can detect heart irregularities, often before symptoms such as heart pain appear.
Is your diet “heart-healthy”? Acupuncturists and Traditional Chinese Medicine doctors have been prescribing “heart-healthy diets” for thousands of years, but the idea of a “heart-healthy diet” is relatively new in the West.
Many of the terms, diagnoses, and devices associated with heart disease in the West, such as heart disease monitor, target heart rate, congestive heart failure, and congenital heart disease, are not part of an Acupuncturist’s view of heart problems.
‘Heart Blood Stagnation’ is a Traditional Chinese Medicine Term for ‘Heart Attack’
What is called a “heart attack” in the West is known to Eastern/Traditional Chinese Medicine as ‘Heart Blood Stagnation. What your primary care doctor/MD knows as arteriosclerosis might be called phlegm obstructing the channels by your Acupuncturist.
If someone has heart issues, an Acupuncturist will suggest the person sees a cardiologist — however, that said, Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine can be helpful in the treatment of heart problems, especially in the early stages – as well as to help a person stay healthy and therefore help prevent heart issues.
Lots of ‘Heart-Healthy Diet’ Choices
There is a world of wonderful ‘heart-healthy diet’ cookbooks – and food that offer many, many choices of tasty menu items that will you both be healthy and satisfied. Browse over to Amazon.com to check out the many cookbooks and meal choices to help you and your loved ones stay healthy.
Give us a call at Acupuncture Alternatives to schedule an appointment to let us help you along your path to good health.