Key West Wellness Center

Author: Dr. Ashley Hoyt, A.P.

  • Alternative Medicine Gains Now Recognized

    AcuGraph Ashley

    The lion fish on the reef didn’t have a chance. The spear point pierced its spiked sides and it was over. Just like that. We shoot them for that reason, reef needs to be protected. There is irony, or if one prefers, poetry in its demise: The hunter, Dr. Ashley Hoyt, is a certified acupuncturist–a practitioner of spearing patients with needles. Of course, that’s an extremely boorish way of describing acupuncture–the ancient medical discipline that consists of inserting very small needles through a patient’s skin. “It’s more appropriate to refer to them as pins,” Hoyt says. “They’re solid, not hollow like hypodermic needles, and very thin. They’re painless and made of stainless steel.”

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  • Natural Medicine For Women’s Health

    Natural Medicine For Women’s Health

    Medicine

    Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine have been a primary form of health care for over 3000 years. It is a vast form of medicine that is able to treat a huge array of symptoms, illnesses, and imbalances. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and World Health Organization (WHO) endorse acupuncture as a successful form of treatment of a list of hundreds of conditions and that list continues to grow.

    Women’s Health is one broad category that Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine has been successfully treating for thousands of years. The Yellow Emperor, a Chinese Medical Guide, printed in 200 BC explains the female anatomy. Physiology, diagnosis and the treatment of menstrual symptoms and pregnancy-related illnesses were included in this guide. The ancient royal Chinese physicians had specialists in OB/GYN within the palace to take care of the women to ensure the conception of the emperor’s successor. (more…)

  • Improving Digestion Through Alternative Medicine

    Alternative Medicine

    Inflammatory Bowel Disease has been on the up rise over the past two to three decades. Some studies suggest that the number of cases diagnosed in industrialized countries in the past thirty years has doubled.  Two of the most common disorders are Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.  One of the common pre-cursors to these illnesses is a weakened immune system.

    The immune system protects the body from infections, harmful bacteria, and even cancer cells. In IBD, the body mistakes food, bacteria, and other materials as a foreign substance, attacking it with white blood cells in the lining of the intestines, leading to chronic inflammation.  This chronic inflammation causes the lining of the digestive tract to be more permeable to toxins, which enter directly into the bloodstream, causing toxic build up and inflammation to become systemic. (more…)