As Designed Wellness

We Are Biologically

Designed To Shine

Integrative Natural Medicine for Optimal Well-Being

As Designed Wellness is your premier destination for acupuncture, functional medicine and cupping, serving Dana Point, San Clemente, Laguna Beach, and neighboring areas!

Led by Dr. Susan Jeffries, our practice embodies integrative natural medicine. We believe in our inherent biological capacity to thrive, recognizing that our choices either propel us toward or steer us away from optimal well-being.

Dr. Susan Jeffries, DACM, M.S. L.Ac

Resident Acupuncturist

PROFESSIONAL ACUPUNCTURE SERVICES, LOCATED IN ORANGE COUNTY, CA

Our Services:

Acupuncture

Nutrition & Sports Medicine

Integrative Therapy

Health & Wellness

This service focuses on healing, valuing both the subtle and significant aspects of your well-being. Our environment is meticulously clean and inviting, ensuring your comfort akin to a relaxing massage experience. Rest assured, the treatment is gentle and pain-free, prioritizing your comfort and desired outcomes.

Our treatment approaches range from gentle to appropriately intense, always tailored to your needs. During initial sessions, we typically start with a moderate or lighter touch, adjusting as necessary for optimal results. Incorporating Sports Medicine Motor Point Therapy into nearly every session underscores our commitment to enhancing functional movement, while addressing potential underlying factors like PTSD to amplify the effectiveness of each treatment.

A common query revolves around the mechanics of our methods. Through acupuncture and bodywork, we reset nerve-muscle connections and prompt the release of beneficial chemicals and hormones, alleviating pain and inflammation. The needles act as catalysts, empowering your body's innate healing abilities to work their magic.

Conditions Treated


While this clinic does not 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 & 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.

  • 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 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 dependence


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 & 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 & Genitourinary:

Acupuncture regulates hormones by way of calming the nervous system’s stress response.

  • PMS

  • Delayed labor

  • Labor pain

  • Malposition of fetus

  • Morning sickness

  • Female infertility

  • Ovary dysfunction

  • Female urethral syndrome

  • Lactation dysfunction

  • 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 & 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

We Are Biologically

Designed To Shine

32840 Pacific Coast Highway Suite B,

Dana Point, CA 92629 (949) 412-6815

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