We Are Biologically
Designed To Shine
Monarch Bay Plaza
32840 Pacific Coast Highway Suite B,
Dana Point, CA 92629 – (949) 412-6815
Resident Acupuncturist
Dr. Susan Jeffries, DACM, M.S. L.Ac
Professional Acupuncture in Orange County, CA
Integrative Natural Medicine
Welcome to As Designed Wellness, your place for acupuncture in Dana Point, San Clemente, Laguna Beach and Surrounding Cities! The integrative natural medicine practice of Susan Jeffries. We are biologically designed to shine and everything we do can bring us closer to that or further away.
This is a healing service. I honor the little things as much as the big. The room and table is very clean and comfortable. You should feel cozy- just like getting a massage. The treatment is never painful. It’s all about comfort and results.
Treatment style and modalities vary from gentle to perfectly intense – and everything in between. I always start middle of the road (or lighter) on the first session and get more specific and intense when indicated. All treatments are pain free and comfortable.
Sports Medicine Motor Point Therapy is incorporated into almost every treatment because functional movement is always beneficial. PTSD is often an underlying cause of disease and can be addressed each time to increase effectiveness of sessions.
A most common question is: “how does it work?” Acupuncture and bodywork reset the nerve and muscle connection, stimulate the body to release chemicals and hormones that decrease pain and inflammation. The needles push buttons and your body does the magic.
Conditions Treated
While this clinic does specialize and may not treat every ailment on this list; Chinese medicine does help almost every system of the body. Every tissue of the body has special relationships with the organs, and the five organs themselves are interrelated as well.
Respiratory and Immune:
Acupuncture regulates fluid metabolism, blood circulation, the autonomic nervous system and the immune system.
- Sinus & Airway
- Acute bronchitis
- Bronchial asthma
- Sinusitis
- Common cold
- Leukopenia (low white blood cells)
- Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
- Shingles
Gastrointestinal/ Digestive:
Acupuncture effects electrical systems of smooth muscle by enhancing the transportation circuits in tissues. It also helps detoxify and assists metabolism of cellular waste.
- Nausea and vomiting
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Abdominal pain
- Intestinal spasm
- Colitis
- Ulcer
- Heartburn
- Gallbladder stones
- Spasm of the esophagus and cardiac muscle
- Hiccups
Cardiovascular:
Acupuncture effects and regulates the blood components by way of improving circulation and detoxification.
- Hypertension
- Hypotension
- Hyperlipidemia
- Raynaud syndrome
Addiction:
Acupuncture stimulates the secretion of endorphins, the happy hormones, in the brain and spinal cord. Ear acupuncture and clinical nutrition is most effective in this case.
- Alcohol dependence and detoxification
- Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
- Tobacco dependance
Neurological:
Acupuncture stimulates the release of natural opioids which normalizes autonomic nerves thereby clearing and enhancing communication networks within the body.
- Bell’s palsy
- Sleep Disorders
- Head Injury
- Facial spasm Neuralgia, post-herpetic
- Neurodermatitis
- Eye issues
- Earache
- Headache
- Ménière disease
- Sore throat
- Conjunctivitis
Mental and Emotional:
Acupuncture affects higher areas of the brain by way of sensory neurons, stimulating the secretion of endorphins in the spinal cord.
- Depression
- Competition stress syndrome
- PTSD
- Long term stress dysfunction
- Sleep disorders
- Anxiety
- Memory loss
Reproductive and Genitourinary:
Acupuncture regulates hormones by way of calming the nervous system’s stress response.
- PMS
- Delayed labour
- Labor pain
- Malposition of fetus
- Morning sickness
- Female infertility
- Ovary dysfunction
- Female urethral syndrome
- Lactation deysfunction
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
- Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
- Prostatitis
- Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
- Retention of urine, traumatic
- Kidney stone
- Renal colic
Pain and Musculoskeletal Disorders:
Acupuncture activates nerve receptors and ‘jumps’ the proprioceptive (sensory nerve) pathway to reset the transmission of pain.
- Facial pain
- TMJ
- Headache
- Fibromyalgia
- Knee pain
- Low back pain
- Neck pain
- Pain in dentistry
- Postoperative pain
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sciatica
- Sprain
- Stroke
- Tennis elbow
- Spine pain, acute
- Stiff neck
- TMJ dysfunction
- Osteoarthritis
- Cancer pain
- Gout