Fertility / Pregnancy

Bina has been treating Berkeley and Bay Area women for fertility for over 11 years.  Success rates for the clinic are 85% of the fertility patients conceiving with in the first year with most patients achieving pregnancy within the first 3-6 months.

Fertility acupuncture is a blend of acupuncture, herbal medicine, lab work and supplementation.  Bina provides each patient with a customized nutritional plan that is based on the research she has conducted over the past decade in natural fertility acupuncture care.

Bina works with both patients who prefer natural fertility acupuncture treatment and those who choose assisted reproductive therapy both IUI and IVF options.

For patients combining acupuncture with ART, it is recommended to start acupuncture treatments 2-3 months prior to ART with 1 treatment/week until stimulation cycle. Then, it’s recommended to come in 2 treatments/week.

After conceiving, many patients return for treatment of pregnancy-related issues such nausea, vomiting, fatigue, placenta previa, gestational diabetes, sciatica, low back pain and low amniotic fluid. Berkeley Acupuncture Clinic offers a 4-week pre-birth acupuncture treatments starting at 36 weeks. These treatments prepare the body for natural labor. The clinic also sees patients regularly for acupuncture-assisted labor induction. Generally, only 1 session is required to start labor.

Diet / Nutrition

The popular phrase ‘You are what you eat’ couldn’t be nearer to the truth. Your good health begins with the type of nutrients you are feeding your body. Modern day food is often loaded with hidden sugars, additives and preservatives which can cause or worsen a chronic illness.

Here at the ‘Berkeley Acupuncture Clinic, we look at both traditional dietary advice and modern research to create an individualized nutritional plan. This is the fastest way to eradicate illness. Our expert nutritional advice is part of a multi-disciplinary treatment, incorporating acupuncture, herbal medicine, functional medicine and lab testing in order to quickly help you regain your health.

As your knowledge of diet and lifestyle choices increases, you will feel compelled to make positive changes that support your overall health and wellbeing.

Here are some conditions where a nutritious diet is crucial for a successful outcome.

Weight-Loss

PMS

Menopause

Insomnia

Hormone Imbalances

Stress

Yeast Infections

Diabetes

Infertility

Arthritis

Migraines and other headaches

Fibrocystic breasts

Cancer

Infections

Allergies

Gastro Intestinal disorders like Chron’s, IBS and ulcers

Fertility

Autoimmune Disorders

Chinese Herbs

Chinese herbs are an important compliment to acupuncture treatment for chronic conditions.  The efficacy of the herbal formula depends on the quality of the herbs.  Our herbal formulas are created using the cleanest herbs available and are regularly checked for heavy metals, pesticide and other contaminants.  Formulas can be sourced from organic farms if requested

From gynocological conditions and autoimmune disorders to headaches and the common cold, herbal medicine is used to treat almost every ailment known to afflict humans.  This is a fact know in both alternative and alopathic medical circles.  Many of  the pharmaceuticals available today are derivatives of plants after many years of herbal research in laboratories.  Acupuncturists use herbs in their whole form combining them with other herbs to enhance their natural effect.

In the state of California, all acupuncturists complete a 4-year herbology study concurrent with their acupuncture degree and are capable of knowledgeably prescribing herbal medicine.

Acupuncture for Pain Management in Berkeley CA

Relieve Pain and Improve Sleep

The most asked question from people who are new to acupuncture is “Is it painful?” The needles used at Berkeley Acupuncture Clinic are hair-thin and are not designed to cut the skin. They are inserted gently and shallowly and the experience is nothing like having an injection. Most people don’t even know I’ve inserted the needles.

In the last few decades, there has been a rapid growth in the awareness and use of Chinese Medicine in Western countries. In 1993, the Food and Drug Administration estimated that Americans made up to 12 million visits per year to acupuncture practitioners and spent upwards of half a billion dollars on acupuncture treatments. This rapid rise in popularity is due in part to patients who have tried acupuncture and gotten successful results then tell their friends. And in part due to recent clinical research supporting the efficacy of acupuncture for a variety of conditions.

Some of the issues we see at Berkeley Acupuncture Clinic:

• Low back pain
• Neck pain
• Sciatica
• Tennis elbow
• Knee pain
• Periarthritis of the shoulder
• Sprains
• Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
• Headache
• Dental pain
• Temporomandibular (TMJ) dysfunction
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Labor induction
• Correction of malposition of fetus (breech presentation)
• Morning sickness
• Nausea and vomiting
• Postoperative pain
• Stroke
• Essential hypertension
• Primary hypotension
• Renal colic
• Leucopenia
• Adverse reactions to radiation or chemotherapy
• Allergic rhinitis, including hay fever
• Biliary colic
• Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
• Acute bacillary dysentery
• Primary dysmenorrhea
• Acute epigastralgia
• Peptic ulcer
• Acute and chronic gastritis

Women’s Health

Do you suffer from irregular or painful periods, amenorrhea, pms, PID/PCOS or the many other issues that arise when things are not quite right with your delicate reproductive and hormonal systems? Acupuncture is a proven safe and gentle alternative to Hormone therapy or birth control pills.

From the confusion of the teenage years as the body begins to undergo drastic changes, straight through to your golden years when a whole new set of changes emerge, we have the perfected techniques in acupuncture to help you sail right through with your health and peace of mind intact.   Some of the conditions that patients come to Berkeley Acupuncture Clinic to treat are:

• Irregular menstruation
• Painful Periods
• PMS
• Uterine Fibroids
• Migraines
• Weight Issues
• Night Sweats
• Hot Flashes
• Hormonal changes
• Anxiety/Nervosa
• Sexual Dysfunction
• Depression
• PID
• PCOS
• Sleep Disorders
• Endometriosis

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

Many diseases can be prevented with the right diet and lifestyle. The seeds of disease are dormant in the decisions you make today, in the same way that the seeds of a vibrant, healthy life are dormant in those same decisions.

The symptoms that are often overlooked or dismissed by the mainstream medical community are key early signs to more serious issues down the road. The purpose of preventative medicine is to acknowledge these symptoms and prevent any conditions before they arise. We consider symptoms like stress, abdominal bloating, low-level anxiety, nausea, sleep issues, unexplained aches and pains, mood swings, headaches menstrual cramps and irregularities as important symptoms that need to be investigated and eradicated. Don’t ignore these signs. At Berkeley Acupuncture Center we offer seasonal well visits correct minor annoyances before they become serious problems.

Breast Cancer Awareness for your Life

The condition of our environment that is not too healthy has made many problems to our life. One of those problems is the existing of the various diseases because of genes alteration. As what have many researchers said that heavy pollution can change genes inside human body and this alteration causes many diseases like breast cancer. Breast cancer in categorized as deadly disease. It can bring death to all people that suffer from it. To reduce the risk of the breast cancer, breast cancer awareness is needed.

The breast cancer awareness should be taught to all girls since they are young so that they can detect the breast cancer earlier and take the necessary action before it kills them. To detect breast cancer is very easy. The first symptom is the alteration of the skin color near the breast. There are lumps there. The second symptom is the presence of pain. If you feel those two symptoms, you need to see your doctor soon to do several checks.

If you have breast cancer awareness you will have bigger chance to survive rather than people who late in detecting their breast cancer. It the cancer is in worse state, the breast can be taken to avoid infection toward other body organs.

Marijuana Leaves

There is a plan that becomes both forbidden and demanded. This plan can be used for medicine but it can also make people lose their orientation. The marijuana can cause euphoria or daydreaming and also distorted perception. If you keep consuming marijuana, your memory will also be affected. You will have difficulty in thinking and also solving problems. The marijuana has great impact on the number of crimes in many countries.

The marijuana or you can call it grass, pot, or weed is the crude drug name. This drug is made from the plant Cannabis Sativa. This plan has the most powerful mind-altering ingredient such as THC. But if you inspect the plant more carefully, there are more than 400 other chemicals are also in the plant. Many common people consume marijuana as cigarette. It is made from dried leaves of the plant. There are many instant effects of smoking it and you can feel the effects by yourself. You will have faster pulse rate and heartbeat, a dry mouth and throat and bloodshot eyes.

If it is possible, you have to avoid using marijuana. It will ruin your body health and at the end it will make damages to your body. Moreover, marijuana is forbidden and you can get jailed for it.

Viagra

Sex is very important to every human. Sex is a hormonal process and no one can deny it. Sex needs to be released because if you hold it, it will affect the whole hormonal system in your body and it will make you have disorientation. You will act strangely and also have headache. To release your sexual desire you need opposite sex as your partner. It can be your wife or just one night stand with a girl. To make you satisfied in releasing your sexual desire and also to make your couple satisfied, you need to consume Viagra.

Viagra is the best sex enhancer this day. The Viagra will make you become stronger in the sexual activities and both of you can be satisfied. The Viagra is helping you making the penis bigger and stronger. It makes the veins in the penis open wider and therefore there are more blood can enter the veins in penis and make it bigger.

This Viagra is not sold on the shelf; you need to have doctor prescription to buy this kind of sexual enhancer. You also need to follow the dose of the Viagra because this drug is very dangerous to people with heart attack risk.

Causes of Stroke

Stroke disease is a disorder of brain function due to blood flow to the brain susceptible to interference (reduced). As a result, nutrients and oxygen the brain needs are not met properly. Based on causes there are 2 kinds of stroke, the existence of blockages in blood vessels (thrombus), and the existence of broken blood vessels.

Generally stroke suffered by the parents, because the aging process causes the blood vessels to harden and narrow (arteriosclerosis) and the fat that clog arteries (atherosclerosis). But past cases show an increase of stroke cases that occurred in adolescence and childbearing age (15 – 40 years). In this group, the main cause of stroke is a stress, drug abuse, alcohol, heredity, and unhealthy lifestyle.

In the case of teenage stroke, genetic factors (offspring) are a major cause of stroke. Frequently encountered cases of stroke caused by blood vessels are fragile and easily broken, or the blood system disorders such as hemophilia and thalassemia disease is inherited by the parents of the patient. Whereas if a family member with diabetes (diabetes), hypertension (high blood pressure) or in English is called pulmonary hypertension, and heart disease, stroke may be greater in other family members.

Other causes of stroke are foods with bad cholesterol (Low Density Lipoprotein) are very high. This evil Cholesterol found on junk food or fast food. In addition, the cause of the other stroke is a lazy habit of exercising and moving, a lot of drinking, smoking, use of drugs and addictive substances, resting time is very less, and prolonged stress. Rupture of blood vessels are also often caused by disease high blood pressure (hypertension).

Chest Pain and Heart

Chest pain is one of the symptoms of heart disease. The pain usually occurs on the left chest. It spreads to shoulders and neck. However, chest pain does not always mark the indication of heart disease. Chest pain can also be caused by pain due to lung or pleural abnormalities, pain and skeletal muscle tissue, pain upper gastrointestinal or psychogenic pain.

Chest pain in general is the feeling of pain or discomfort that interferes in the chest area. Often the pain is originating from organs within the chest cavity which is distributed through the nerves to the chest wall.

Chest pain in heart disease can be a pain coronary and non-coronary pain. Coronary pain caused by a lack of blood supply to the heart muscle, while non-coronary pain due to inflammation of the outer layer of the heart, aortic abnormalities, valve abnormalities, and others. For more convincing if chest pain is heart disease or other necessary checks electrocardiography (ECG), exercise treadmill test with the tool, and others.

Danger Behind Antioxidants

Antioxidants in the form of supplements such as vitamins C and E may be an option to maintain stamina. Antioxidants are assumed to prevent damage to body tissues or oxidative stress by free radicals rid the cause. However, research from Germany said another. Instead, researchers believe that free radicals are formed can give a good effect on the body, and even hold, eliminating diabetes with antioxidant vitamins could be bad.

A research team leader Dr. Michael Ristow of the University of Jena said that free radicals might be able to give a negative effect on the body. However, the research Dr. Michael Ristow of the University of Jena, Germany, and his team showed that free radicals might be able to give a positive effect on the body by increasing sensitivity to insulin, lost condition in type-2 diabetes. Just unfortunately, this effect is inhibited vitamins and antioxidants.

In their studies found that in people who take vitamin C and E does not change the level of free radicals in their bodies. While that does not consume antioxidant levels indicate the presence of free radical oxidative stress. After four weeks of intensive exercise, insulin sensitivity in the group of men without improved antioxidant supplements. On the other hand that his condition deteriorated even supplements are metabolic.

Responding to these findings, Dr Sarah Aldred, a lecturer at the School of Sport And Exercise Sciences at the University of Birmingham, England, gave his comments. From the results of the study, does not mean that supplements containing antioxidants are not good for the body. “It’s just better if we consider whether the supplements we consume really useful or not.” The best vitamins are from natural sources. With consumption of healthy and balanced diet is enough to keep your body stay in shape without having to take supplements.

Sex Reduce Stroke Risk

In addition to delicious, sex is also healthy. Diligent intercourse with a partner can reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Therefore, the frequency of sex as the doctor recommended exercise to be conducted at least three times a week. A study in Biological Psychology reveals that diligent sex can reduce blood pressure. Blood pressure levels are obtained when the heart is resting conditions after sex activity.

If a person feels satisfied in sex also can enhance dopamine transmission that can improve and neutralize stress hormones associated with hypertension. In addition, low levels of libido can also be early warning on blood pressure in a person’s body. The doctors knew very well that men usually have hypertension erectile dysfunction disorder.

A new study conducted in Greece found that this effect is greater effect on the ladies. Therefore, do not be surprised if as many as four of the 10 participants with high blood patients did not have sex with their partner, compared to three of 10 healthy men. Not only that, if you want to avoid strokes and heart attacks, then you must apply the other important aspects of a healthy lifestyle.

Tips on Healthy Kidney

Many kidney patients did not feel complaints at all but when examined clinically had kidney problems. Learn the characteristics of kidney disease to kidney function remains good. Many cases that was difficult to treat kidney disease if it is severe organ. Dialysis is the only way to survive if ones kidneys are not functioning. Kidney diseases there are symptomatic and some are not symptomatic.

CKD can be prevented well if the patient knows the symptoms that caused earlier so it can be treated early. The symptoms of kidney disease can be identified through kidney dysfunction it self. Kidney functions primarily as the filter system and excretion, acid base regulators inside the blood, regulating pressure of the blood, and stimulates cell production of red blood cells.

Symptoms often not occur for some kidney disease. This new disease is identified after the laboratory test, namely by urine and creatinine tests or dirt can be removed by kidneys are functioning properly. Damage of the kidneys more often caused due to other chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney infections, congenital kidney, and kidney stones.

Here are tips to stay healthy kidney:

1. Avoid indiscriminate consumption of drugs

2. Enough water consumption

3. Reduce herbs that have not been tested clinically

4. Regular exercise

5. Avoid excessive consumption of supplements such as Vitamin C is a maximum of 4 grams a day

6. Perform regular controls, especially for patients who have diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, because they will be a higher risk of kidney damage.

7. Keeping weight because obesity can lead to kidney

One can do medical check ups to see if he has signs of kidney problems or possibly could be affected by kidney disease. The urine laboratory tests can know whether or not severe kidney disease experienced by a person. Urine will look normal if the cause is less blood flow to the kidneys. Beside that, there are abnormalities in the kidneys when the urine contains blood. The urine protein is also found in normal condition sometimes when there is no protein in urine. Condition of creatinine and urea will be high if the kidneys appear impaired.

The Mad Cow Disease

There are many new diseases these days. After several years ago we got swine flu, now there is mad cow disease. This mad cow disease is another incurable disease. This disease is attacking brain and previously infected cattle such as cow and goat. This disease is affecting the cow’s nervous system and causes the cow to act strangely and can make the cow lose its control over its body such as walk.

This disease is very dangerous to human and this disease is infecting human from the way people eat the beef. When people got mad cow disease, he will start to lose its awareness and act strangely. 

They will gradually lose control of their mental. For some worse cases, human is also able to lose their physical capabilities. Fortunately, there are only fewer people diagnosed to have this type of diseases and all of them have been treated in special way. There is no way to indicate this disease in your body unless you are doing overall body check at the hospital.

To get the information about this mad cow disease, especially if you are living near an animal farm or you often consume beef, you can directly open your internet and search for the information you need.

Pregnancy--the most sensitive period

Being pregnant is the happiest moment in your life because you will have spring to continue your generation. Pregnancy is the most sensitive period where the mother should be careful to what she eat and do. Anything she eats and do will have direct effect to the infant. During the pregnancy, a mother should consume a lot of nutritious foods and also milk. The nutrition from the food will be directly used by the body to supply the infant in our body.

During the pregnancy period, you need to continuously seeing your doctor to have assistance and also suggestion of how caring for the baby. You also need to do several exercises to make your body fits and ready for the birth. In this period, you have stop smoking. If you are a smoker, it is better for you to quit smoking because it can also endanger your baby. Don’t do hard works or too much walking because it can also endanger your infant.

Always drink milk for pregnant mother to get all nutrition you need during the pregnancy, so that your children can be born in healthy condition and have good intelligence. Find guidance from magazine or internet of how to take care of newly born baby.

Swine Flu Symptoms

The swine flu has become new monster in our life. The disease has taken away life of millions people in just few months. This disease is like flu but unlike common flu, this is the newest kind of flu and human don’t have the immune yet. Since human don’t have shield toward this disease, they are very vulnerable and easily infected. The Swine Flu is caused by Influenza “A H1Ni virus”. The swine flu symptoms are like our typical seasonal flu but it can spread in amazing speed from person to person and become a global outbreak.

If you want to know swine flu symptoms you can check it by yourself. The most common symptom is fever. The fever indicates that there is alien material come into the immune and the immune try to neutralize it. Cough is the second symptom and usually followed by stuffy nose or runny nose and also sore throat. It is just like common influenza. Your body will also be aching and you will have severe headache. Chills are the following symptom. And the last, you will feel extreme fatigue and diarrhea.

These swine flu symptoms often seen as common flu except you got pneumonia and respiratory failure. See doctor as soon as possible if you have those symptoms and safe your life.

The Importance of Women Health

According to women health magazine women are vulnerable to many diseases. This happens because women have hormonal systems that are not too stable. Especially if the woman is pregnant, she is more risky to get infected by various diseases. Women are forbidden to smoke because it can cause cancer and also endanger the infant. Moreover, smoking woman will have greater risk to have heart disease and many other major health problems.

To avoid dangerous diseases, women should gradually check herself on the doctor for some symptoms like breast cancer. The breast cancer is deadly dangerous to woman because it can spread to whole body and cause them to lose the breast because it can be taken away to avoid further effect. According to women health magazine, breast cancer can cause death. To maintain the health for women, you need to read many articles and also magazine. There are many articles that you can get on the internet.

To get the women health articles on the internet, you need to browse carefully. Use your search engine to find the articles that you need. The articles usually have been classified according to the types of women health problems such as breast cancer and cervix cancer. Get the articles and maintain your health.