Acupuncture for Children
We offer holistic health care for your child.
This means we are focused on treating kids naturally as well as helping you to integrate our advice within your child’s medical care plan. Read on for how East Asian medicine and acupuncture for children could benefit your child.
You know how important your child’s health is and we understand that too
We have been using gentle acupuncture for children since 2005. We treat babies as young as a few weeks old, as well as toddlers, school children and high school kids. We enjoy working together to improve your kid’s gut health and immunity, reduce tummy pain, improve sleep and regulate hormones. We believe these issues often lie at the foundation of many illnesses.
What can we help your child with?
Some symptoms we offer help with include recurrent snotty noses, colds and flus, tummy aches, support through cancer therapy and much more. We are interested in every aspect of their health, from your pregnancy with them, to their birth, to when they started solids, to what they like and don’t like, to what makes them tick. It all matters. It all means something to the overall fabric of their being.
We are passionate about helping them not only survive but thrive!
We help you to make sense of what is going on and see it from a different perspective. We teach you natural techniques like massage and acupressure to improve your child’s health at home. Lifestyle and diet changes are often recommended and these have an enormous impact on your child’s quality of life.
Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine for Kids
I’m Rebecca Mar Young and I use super gentle acupuncture for children as well as Chinese herbal medicine. Chinese Medicine has a long history with paediatric care.
I’m experienced working with all kinds of children, so there is no need to worry. They don’t even need to sit still!
Acupuncture for children
When they’re young, children only need a quick in and out insertion of the needle rather than pins being left in. Acupuncture for children uses needles that are super fine and the child hardly notices them. Sometimes I use gentle “sticker pins” that kids can hardly feel; it all depends on your child. There are lots of options.
Diet is the cornerstone of their health
Chinese medicine has a particular way of looking at diet that is different to western nutrition. It tends to have a fast impact to balance out what your child needs. For example, if they have damp signs, we reduce damp foods, if they have sore tummy signs we may suggest easy-to-digest warming foods.
Our take-home advice
You will walk away with home massage plans, diet advice, herbal medicine and meditation ideas that are specific to your child’s needs.
It’s best if you get in touch with us to ask how we can help your child.