Seasonal Treatment

At Sean Laflamme Acupuncture clinic, clients have the option of becoming part of a preventative medicine program that includes Seasonal Treatments. The idea behind this practice, which has been part of Chinese Medicine for thousands of years, is as follows:

During the change from one season to the next, much goes on in the environment that causes the human body to adapt. Changes in light intensity and duration, as well as changes in temperature and humidity influence the natural cycles and rhythms of the body. At certain periods of the year, the body has more difficulty adapting, and this can subsequently tire the body, leaving it more vulnerable to disease. By intervening in a timely fashion during these periods, with a treatment such as acupuncture, the body has a better chance to maintain its strength. Helping the body function optimally, allows many systems, including the immune system, to fulfill their role more effectively.

Most individuals experience physical and/or emotional difficulty at the time of season change.

Season and Inter-season Calculation

In Chinese medical practice, when measuring the duration of the seasons, we refer to the traditional Chinese calendar, for much correlation is made between cycles within the human body and the months and seasons of this calendar. The Chinese calendar is a luni-solar calendar, which incorporates elements of both the lunar and solar calendars (solar calendar dates indicate the position of the earth on its revolution around the sun; lunar calendar dates indicates the cycle of the moon). 

The Chinese calendar, often referred to in Asia as the Farmer’s Calendar, was developed to help explain the different life cycles in nature, and their influence over the surrounding environment (plants and animals). By examining the names given to the year, the months and the seasons, it is easy to detect theeir conceptual origins. Each Year is named after an animal, each month is after a fruit or a harvest, and each season after an element in nature, wood, fire, earth, metal or wood.

In China today the standard Gregorian calendar of the West is used for most day to day activities, but the traditional Chinese calendar is still used for medicine, farming and the marking of holidays.

If you wish to become part of our recall system, we will remind you a few weeks prior to each change of season period, four times a year. Simply send us your contact information to the following: inter-seasonal reminder.

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