Acupuncture à Lausanne

Sylvie Wyler, plus de 25 ans d'expérience

Think of yourself during this period of festivities!

After a particularly hot and sunny autumn, we entered the winter season at the beginning of November. The Yin energy has settled and will reach its peak at the winter solstice to decrease until spring in February.

The winter season related to the “water” element puts a strain on our body and more particularly, according to Chinese medicine, the kidneys and bladder, the organs related to energies. If the Kidney is in good emotional health, you will be more inclined to self-preservation, to recklessness. Otherwise, fear, phobias, even in extreme cases, fear, panic, terror, despair are emotions that can occur.

Like nature sleeping in order to spend as little energy as possible until spring arrives, you too, slow down your pace and take time for yourself and your loved ones, to do nothing and recharge your batteries. Go to bed early (with a hot water bottle!) and allow yourself to get up late… Take advantage of this time of introspection to read and meditate. Go and question the emotions buried deep within you, such as fear, or faculties such as will.

Adapt your diet to preserve the organs that contain all our vital energy. Fortunately, nature offers us root vegetables that are full of useful nutrients. Serve them with satiating foods such as beans, legumes (all kinds of peas, lentils) or rice, buckwheat or spelt. Salt will also help you keep water in your body.

If you feel overwhelming fatigue and emotions, a few acupuncture sessions can help you refocus your energy and channel your anxieties. If the kidney bladder system is weak, the acupuncturist will focus on the “water” point to support it.

You will have understood that the end of the year period is a wonderful opportunity to take care of yourself, so give yourself this gift: think of yourself!

It’s fall time…make room !

Until October 20, it is the Autumn season, governed by the Metal element. We feel the summer decrease (Yang) and give way to more freshness (Yin).

As our body adapts to the rhythm of the seasons, it is necessary to support it for the change to receive the surrounding energy and prepare it for the next season.

Being in harmony with this energy means that you should purify yourself, avoid exposure to the cold without protection, rest and practice meditation. It is also time to “clean up” your life, to separate from what no longer makes sense (losing leaves) in order to be ready to receive the novelty or newness when spring returns.

An energy imbalance in the meridians associated with the Metal (Lungs and Large Intestine) can lead to sadness, melancholy or even depression, which can result in symptoms such as asthma, sinusitis, respiratory allergies, diarrhea or constipation.

At this period, the lungs are strong and the liver is weak. It is therefore necessary to choose food that helps the weak organ: onions, leeks (lily family), cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, green food that is related to the liver and spring. This food also acts on the large intestine and facilitates elimination. Also enhance your meals with spicy spices ( garlic, pepper, mustard, ginger) especially with white food. On a physical level, you can practice breathing exercises and massage your stomach to stimulate the large intestine.

A preventive acupuncture treatment helps to prepare the re-entry of energy into the body by activating the Yin movement of energy. Acupuncture points act like food by toning up the points of the season. If the lungs are weak and cannot conserve the energy of the season, the Metal point (autumn) of the lung will be toned to support the energy of the weak organ in autumn, the liver, and thus create inner balance. Emotionally, it activates courage, strength and clarity.

Autumn is a wonderful season. Enjoy it!

Summer is in full swing…and so beats the heart !

With summer, the heat came. Follow the rhythm of the sun! Get up early to enjoy the morning coolness and go to bed during sunset  while enjoying the beautiful evenings…If you can, take a mid-day nap and drink plenty.

The season of Fire

In Chinese medicine, the summer season organ is the heart that promotes good blood circulation and energy (Qi). According to the law of five movements, the heart belongs to the element Fire. The body is overflowing with YANG. It is associated with the small intestine. It is also the period when our digestive function is diminished, because our energy is turned towards the outside rather than the inside.

Symptoms

The most common disorders are due to an imbalance of the element Fire or Qi of the Heart. Symptoms include insomnia, hot flashes, excessive sweating, venous and arterial disorders (including high blood pressure). Excess joy and libido are also symptoms, because they tire the energy of the Heart and show an imbalance of Fire. The lack of joy (like depression) is linked to the lack of Fire.

Advice

So be careful with your heart. Avoid violent exercises, high-risk sports or other activities that can make you agitated… When you get up, stretch your body especially with your arms, because the meridians of the heart and small intestine are in your arms.

The bitter taste that dries and refreshes is good for the heart. This flavour stimulates Qi. It is advisable to avoid dry and hot food during this period. As digestive functions weaken, eat light and avoid rich food. Favour YIN fruit, such as apricots, mangoes, melons, watermelons, and seasonal vegetables. Enhance your dishes with herbs such as basil, turmeric, mint, sage, thyme.

Acupuncture care

Besides an appropriate diet, you can complete your well-being by rebalancing the Qi and channeling the YANG with a few acupuncture sessions that will allow your body to regain a balance during this summer period.

Spring is here, prepare your body!

From the beginning of February, we have been in the first cycle of the year, the Wood cycle. Traditional Chinese medicine is based on 5 main cycles associated with a specific organ and a season. They are represented by the following symbols: wood, fire, earth, metal and water.

  • The liver is associated with spring and the symbol of wood. It’s VITALITY.
  • The heart is associated with summer and the symbol of fire. It’s HEAT.
  • The lung is associated with autumn and the metal symbol. It’s the BREATH , the SLOWDOWN .
  • The kidney is associated with winter and the symbol of water. It’s COLD.
  • The spleen is associated with the inter-season and the symbol of the earth. It’s the ROOTS.

Symbolically, the wood at the origin of yang energy represents expansion and activity, heat and connection to summer and the second element of the cycle, fire.

Like nature that awakens in  spring, our being is carried by new ideas, change and hope.

During this season, the organs to be stimulated are the liver and gallbladder linked to digestion. The liver ensures the unhindered circulation of QI throughout the body in all directions. It has an “army general” function. It helps the spleen and stomach to ensure their digestive function. The free flow of QI has an influence on your emotional state. And the emotion of spring season is anger, which can be our drive to change and gives us the strength to fight if we control it.

To properly prepare your body and mind this spring:

  • stimulate the organs of the season with detox treatments.
  • eat green, leafy and seasonal vegetables: Asparagus, blueberries, cabbage, sprouted sprouts, watercress, broccoli, salad…
  • take a walk in the nature and breathe deeply. And why not, practice an outdoor sport.
  • and stimulate your meridians corresponding to the deficient organs with acupuncture sessions!

Anyway, take full advantage of this beautiful season of renewal !

The Chinese New Year under the sign of the Earth Dog

This year, the Chinese New Year opens with the year of the Earth Dog. In Chinese astrology, the sign of the Dog is associated with qualities such as loyalty, trust and generosity.

Originally, Chinese New Year’s Eve celebrates the winter solstice and marks the end of the cold season and the arrival of the beautiful days. Since the Chinese calendar is a luni-solar calendar, the date of Chinese New Year in the Gregorian calendar varies from year to year, but always falls between January 21 and February 20, during the second new moon after the winter solstice when the sun is in the sign of Aquarius. Months are lunar months, that means that the first day of each month is the new moon and the 15th day is the full moon. This year, it will take place on February 16th, at the beginning of a new moon.

Traditionally, festivities begin with a New Year’s dinner and end 15 days later. In China and all over the world where it will be celebrated, Chinese New Year’s Eve marks an important moment. On the lintels of the doors, we will see greetings written on red paper, symbol of luck. The characters of good auspice as happiness or spring will be gladly stuck upside down because “invert” is homophone to “arrive”. So the word overthrown happiness means: “Happiness has arrived”.

This New Year’s Day is therefore a festive time, the spring festival, during which spring cleaning is done to prepare the transition to the new year’s energies.

The seasons in Chinese medicine are not organized in the same way as in the Western vision. According to the Chinese calendar, spring starts around 5 February. This may seem very early, but even if it is not yet perceptible, the ascent of the yang that we observe in nature with the first signs of sap rising in the trees begins at the beginning of February. March 20 marks the climax of spring.

From a preventive point of view, starting in February, it is interesting to work on liver energy, especially for people prone to seasonal allergies.