Boost your Immunity

     The World Health Organization and the United States Center for Disease Control have declared this Coronavirus COVID-19 spread to be pandemic and a vaccine is yet to be developed. Many pharmaceutical companies have allied with the U.S. government to develop a viable treatment for this disease.
     In the meantime, we at Hirano Acupuncture Clinic, as a service to our community, will be offering auricular ear seed treatments as a safe and effective way to help boost your immune system organs, your Lungs and your nervous system to help keep stress and cortisol levels lowered. These treatments will take approximately 5 minutes and will have continued effect while wearing the seeds for approximately 1 week.
     Auricular therapy is a scientific medical method which can diagnose and treat many different diseases of the body and the mind solely through the ears. The oldest record on auricular therapy is over 2,200 years ago from the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, the earliest and most important written work of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Needles, seeds or magnets are used for the purpose of restoring the body back to health. However, this therapy can also be used to boost the immune system for preventative purposes. If you catch colds or flus easily, this therapy will help strengthen your body’s defenses to resist viruses and bacteria. As reported, those with 

strong constitutions have improved ​recovery and survival with the COVID-19. If you or someone you know is interested in this, we ask that you please call our office at (818) 244-2287 to make an appointment in advance to control the flow of people into our clinic for space control. However, we ask that if you are currently experiencing cold or flu-like symptoms or have a fever, call your medical provider and ask for advice.

                                                           Our Safety Policy
We at Hirano Acupuncture Clinic place a high priority on the safety of our patients and our staff. The following is our protocol when people make an appointment:

1. We ask all individuals to wear a mask or a scarf in our clinic. All of our physicians and staff also wear a mask.
2. We screen all patients regarding if they have or have been around someone with any fever, cough, shortness of breath, cold or flu symptoms before they are allowed to enter the clinic for their appointment. If yes, then they are asked to go home and call their healthcare provider for advice and will not be allowed to return for rescheduled appointment for 14 days. 
3. All visitors to our clinic are asked to apply alcohol based sanitizer to their hands with our solution that kills 99.9% of germs as soon as they arrive. 
4. All visitors have their forehead temperature scanned before entering the clinic using our non-touch IR thermometer. They are allowed in if there’s no fever. If there is, then they are asked to go home and call their healthcare provider for advice.
5. Door knobs, chairs, hangers, faucets, toilets and light switches are sanitized routinely.
6. Posted on our bulletin board are do’s and don’ts regarding prevention and also Dr. Hirano’s three simple methods to reduce stress and anxiety.  

                                You can get more info on the COVID-19 at CDC.gov.

3 Methods to Reduce your Stress & Anxiety

Here are some techniques to help reduce the stress, anxiety, tension and the difficulty to relax due to the COVID-19. These are time tested simple methods that works, both in battle and and in the clinic.     

1.Soften your hands and feet. Yes, that's it.  Here are the reasons why it's beneficial....
     • Most of the body energy meridians begin and end at the hands and feet and softening them activates Chi flow. This has a direct effect on the mind because eventually, every meridian will travel to the top of the head to a acupoint called Baihui (that means "the meeting of a hundred connections") where it communicates with the brain.  Baihui has a profound effect on the central nervous system. 
     • Relaxed muscles and anxiety is incompatible. This is according many research that used a machine Elmer and Alyce Green's developed along with a methodology called "Biofeedback". In this method, the therapist will guide the subject, wearing electrodes connected to a machine, to learn to control bodily processes that are normally involuntary like muscle tension, blood pressure or heart rate. 
     • Lowers the brainwave frequency, also based on the scientific observations of Biofeedback when brain waves were measured.     

2.  Gently connect your thumb and middle finger-tips together of the same hand and hold for a period of time. This acupressure connections subdues the heart and relaxes the lungs/breath. resulting in a calming the mind and spirit. 
 
3.  Close your eyes and place your mind within the vast star field. Often we place our problems within the confines of human perimeters rather than with nature. If what bothers us can be represented by a cup of foul smelling poison placed in a small room, then its effect will be huge. Place it in a gymnasium then its effects become smaller. Place on an open field and its effect continues to become less. Place in the ocean and it becomes even more diluted. See where I'm going with this? The star field is in fact where we are in reality. This perspective will have a calming effect which helps us to think and act better, certainly what we need in this day and age. 
 
All of the three methods will quickly work and help you through your day. Will doing this once be enough? No. It's like breathing and eating. This should be of part your daily routine.  
 
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