Key West Wellness Center

Category: Holistic Approaches to Health

  • 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…)

  • Acupuncture: Balance Your Energy, Balance Your Life

    acupuncture
    Ray Jensen and Dr. Ashley Hoyt.

    When William Southmayd, M.D. experienced an ankle problem for 2 years that caused him to limp and restricted his activities, he thought he would have to undergo surgery. After having acupuncture treatments from Dr. Ashley Hoyt, he was pain free after 6 weeks. As a retired orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Southmayd is familiar with what is involved with surgery and was happy to find an alternative.

    Ray Jensen decided to try acupuncture after a shoulder injury. He reports that he was pain free after a few treatments.  He was so pleased with the results that he referred his wife for treatments when she was diagnosed with high blood pressure and did not want to take medication. Her blood pressure was reduced to normal and has remained stable for two years with no medication. (more…)