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 As a Dr. of Oriental Medicine and healer with over 20 years of professional experience, Dr Loop OMD is adept at reading the personal state of your Qi by looking, listening, and feeling the body via Palpation, Tongue and Facial Diagnosis, Color Analysis, Pulse Diagnosis, Differential Diagnosis and Applied Kinesiology.  It is the dynamic relationship…

The Chinese herbal formularies include ingredients from all three kingdoms: vegetable, animal and mineral. However, the majority are from vegetable sources. Examples are roots, stems, leaves, twigs, bark, tubers, flowers etc. 15-20% of the standard Chinese repertoire of come from outside China. The Chinese have incorporated herbs from all over the world into their materia…

This powerful and transformational treatment originally required the patient to boil up the bulk form of medicinal plants and other medicinal substances into a “tea” and drink the decoction for several days or months depending on the severity of the condition. Although this delivery method is still used today, Chinese Herbal Formulas are more commonly…

Acupuncture, electroacupuncture, Auricular and Scalp Acupuncture, Japanese Styles like Ishizaka Ryu Traditional Acupuncture (non – invasive and/or minimially invasive very thin needles for children, senstive or needle phobic patients) Herbal Medcine: Prepared patents or custom formulation Moxibustion: mugwort, herbal pastes, poutices of different type and quality to move qi and blood, tonify and restore. Gua…

As a Licensed Acupuncturist, Massage Therapist and Board-Certified Herbalist, Dr Loop OMD is qualified to diagnose according to the principles of Chinese medicine and provide treatment of sciatica using acupuncture, massage, herbs, qigong, and other adjunct therapies to restore balance and harmony back to your system. He has been treating pain complaints for over 20…

The approach and length of treatment depends on the differential diagnosis in Chinese medicine, and this will determine how to address the current pain as well as the root cause of the complaint. Chinese medicine uses a pattern and systems approach to diagnose and treat the symptoms and the root cause by also looking at…

Sciatica is often defined as pain, weakness, numbness or tingling that radiates down the leg, often to the knee or foot traveling along the location of one’s sciatic nerve. Pain is often felt in the low back and buttocks region in addition to the sides or back of the posterior thigh. True sciatic pain is…

Acupuncture is one of the safest and most effective treatments for sciatica. It does not harbor the side effects often attributed to drugs or standard treatments and the results are often longer lasting as well.  Chronic sciatica might take a longer time to address depending on the underlying complicating factors like bone spurs, degenerative disc…

Qi becomes blocked or disrupted due to numerous factors including physical or emotional trauma, external or internal pathogenic factors, stress, lack of movement or exercise, overexertion, seasonal changes, poor diet and lifestyle, accidents, excessive activity,  or overwork. Qi either goes with the flow or against the flow. When we go against the flow, pain and…

There are many distinct types of Qi that we refer to in Chinese Medicine Physiology. Examples include Qi inherited from our parents (Source Qi or Yuan Qi), Qi ingested from our food (Gu Qi) or Qi breathed in and out from the air (Zong Qi), or Qi that flows in the meridians of our body…