Hidden Well Acupuncture Center offers assessment and treatment services for healing a wide array of conditions that patients commonly struggle with.

assessment

We offer in-depth traditional Chinese Medical diagnosis. This style of discerning the etiology of any sort or suffering or disharmony is based on pattern identification. Chinese medicine evolved long before sophisticated imaging, lab tests or other external ways of investigating the body came into use.  Therefore, over centuries the diagnostics which may at first appear primitive have evolved into a  powerful tool of discerning what is wrong in a body. Root causes and consequences are traced back to understand how a symptom has manifested into a pattern which causes pain, discomfort or blockages in the body or mind. Our skilled practitioners listen to a voice, feel pulses and palpate parts of the body and look at the eyes, tongue and general demeanor. Like detectives, they collect clues during an initial intake. This often subtle data will assist charting the course of treatment. Just like a string can get wound into a knot, sorting out how to unwind what appears a jumble takes skill and time. What may seem irrelevant to another sort of practitioner, may hold the key to discerning root cause of pathology.

The services that Hidden Well Acupuncture Center provide are tailored to each patient’s needs. Fawn Smiley uses her skill  in time-tested techniques which have been handed down over the centuries.

Treatment

A variety of modalities are employed at Hidden Well include the following:

• Acupuncture: Auricular, somatic, scalp, electro-acupuncture, still and movement styles are used. Practiced traditions at Hidden Well include traditional chinese, classical chinese, NADA, Tan Balance method, Tung, and alchemical styles of acupuncture.
• Moxibustion: Heat therapy most commonly employed with diseases where cold is part of the
• Herbal Formulations: Raw, tablets, tea pills, powders
• Topical plasters, minerals, soaks, liniments and salves
• Essential oil formulas: topicals and inhalants
• Mineral, stone and gem formulations
• Gua Sha scraping techniques
• Tui Na massage techniques
• Diet therapy