Before Treatment:
- It is essential to eat before a treatment to avoid feeling light, headed, dizzy, or faint.
- It is best to eat something light 2 hours ahead of time.
- If you don’t have time to eat 2 hours ahead of time, be sure to eat something before your treatment. Please don’t eat a large or heavy meal.
- Also, be sure to drink water before and especially after your acupuncture treatment.
- Avoid alcohol and coffee on the day of your treatment.
- Wear loose-fitting clothes to your appointment.
- Arrive 10 minutes early or on time for your appointment. If it’s your first appointment, please arrive 15 minutes before your appointment to fill out the paperwork.
- Tongue diagnosis is an important aspect of Chinese medicine. Please do not alter the tongue’s appearance before a treatment.
-Please do not scrape your tongue before your treatment.
-Avoid purple grape juice, candies that would change the tongue color.
After Treatment:
- It is ok to eat soon after your acupuncture treatment. Avoid eating a large or heavy meal. Be sure to eat!
- Avoid alcohol and coffee on the day of your treatment.
- Please do not do vigorous exercise after your acupuncture treatment.
- Some people find that they are more sensitive after their acupuncture treatment. It may be useful to schedule your acupuncture appointment on a day and time when you have nothing planned after the treatment.
- The treatment continues to work even after you are no longer on the table.
-It is best to relax after your acupuncture treatment, if possible.
-Drink a lot of water.
-Taking a hot bath.
-Avoid stress post-treatment.
