Holistic Back Relief Acupuncture & Wellness Center

read moreWelcome to the Placerville Acupuncture and Functional Medicine clinic of Alex Tuggle L.Ac.! I provide many holistic health services for you and your family's health needs. My treatments include Acupuncture therapy, Therapeutic massage, Chi Nei Tsang, Nutritional Balancing supplement programs, Hair mineral analysis lab testing and interpretation, Nutritional counseling, Medical Qigong and Guided Meditation as well as Chinese herbal medicine. By combining both Western Biomedicine with Traditional Chinese Medicine, you get the benefits of both modern research along with the healing wisdom that has been around for centuries!

read moreNatural cures for insomnia include natural supplements, herbal remedies for insomnia, acupuncture for insomnia, meditation and deep breathing, stretching exercises, dietary guidelines, stress management techniques, aromatherapy, and self massage techniques, plus more. The most effective way to find a cure for insomnia is too correctly diagnose the underlying cause of insomnia, and then direct your insomnia treatment plan at fixing your specific reason for having trouble sleeping. How many times have you gone to bed at night, only to get 2-5 hours of sleep?

read moreMy Placerville acupuncture services in El Dorado county uses extremely fine needles that are virtually painless when inserted gently with Japanese style painless needling techniques. Acupuncture helps to adjust the neuroendocrine system and also regulates the nervous system back into the Parasympathetic branch which allows the body to heal more effectively. Acupuncture also stimulates precise neuromuscular points along certain meridian pathways to help promote the circulation, nerve regeneration, adjust pain receptors and also increases the release of endorphins and other important health promoting neurochemicals in the brain and digestive organs, optimizing your health back into balance and rejuvenation.

read moreCopper Toxicity is a condition that is increasingly common in this day and age, due to the widespread occurrence of copper in our food, copper fungicides, e-cigs, Copper IUD's, hot water pipes, along with the common nutritional deficiencies in Zinc, Manganese and other trace minerals that help keep levels of Copper in balance. Birth control pills increases a woman's risk of having a Copper toxicity condition due to the effect that estrogen has on the body, increasing copper retention in the kidneys.