Herbs and Acupuncture

Valery Yuabov combines Medicinal herbs and acupuncture to cover all levels of the body and maximize therapeutic effect. Acupuncture and the use of the medicinal herbs are holistic therapies.  On one hand, acupuncture acts on the meridian network throughout the body, on the other, medicinal herbs act on internal organs through deeper penetration.

Herbal therapy works by ingesting herbs, which have a direct, internal influence on the body’s physiology and pathology. Herbs have specific characteristics: flavor (taste), and ‘temperature’. The five categories of flavor are sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, and salty. The temperature of herbs can be hot, warm, cold or cool. Together all these characteristics make up what we call ‘nature’. Each herb has specific effects on the body’s physiology. For example, bitter tasting plants cool the body by expelling bodily heat and causing more frequent urination. Acrid herbs, help with externally contracted colds by treating the outer layers of our body.

From a modern prospective, one can say that plants produce a great variety of pharmacologically active  chemicals. They have an intricate biological network that links all things and forces together. This way, similar and opposing forces are balanced and complement each other. For this reason, for example, a plant that grows in wet, cool marshes will treat a hot, dry disease. Medicinal Herbs are very effective and safe when administered according to your practitioner’s directions.

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