
We Are Biologically
Designed To Shine
Monarch Bay Plaza
32840 Pacific Coast Highway # A,
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.
October 1st, 2020
COVID-19 Update
We are here to serve your healthcare needs. To respect and keep each other safe we ask that everyone wash hands for 20 seconds immediately upon entry. We are observing all CDC directives in the clinic for cleanliness and disinfecting. All patients entering the office wear a protective mask. We have committed to disinfecting all touched surfaces (door handles, toilet flusher, front counter, water, etc) after every single visitor leaves the office suite (delivery personnel included).

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
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