CITY OSTEOPATHIC AND HEALING CLINIC

Osteopaths use manual techniques to help restore normal movement to joints and normal tension and elastisity to muscles and other soft tissues, to aid both physical and mental well-being. Osteopathy encourages normal function and enhances the body's natural self-healing and restorative properties. Restoring mechanical and soft tissue balanace benefits the structures of the body, and improves the body's physiological mechanisms.

A traditional acupuncturist will typically question his patient about their health, examine the patient's tongue, take the pulse at the wrist and after due consideration treat the patient by the insertion of fine needles at specific points on the body according to meridian lines and the 5 elements.

This therapy developed from the enemas was first used by the Egyptians. The Ebers Papyrus, of the 14th century B.C., and the Edwin Smith Papyrus (c. 1700 B.C.), both mention enemas and give directions for the use of the enema. The 17th Century became known as the "age of the enema", or the "age of clysters". It was an acceptable practice in Parisian society to enjoy as many as three or four enemas a day, the belief being that an internal washing or "lavement" was essential to well-being.