Practiced for more than 3000 years, acupuncture is a healing technique used in traditional Chinese medicine. This non-invasive modality uses hair thin needles inserted at specific points along the pathway, called the body’s meridian, to keep energy, called chi or qi moving through the body in order to restore balance or repair dis-ease. The earliest written record of acupuncture is found in the Huangdi Neijing (黄帝内经; translated as The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon), dated appr

How does your acupuncture practitioner decide which acupuncture points to treat? Dr. Panchal decides which points to treat by observing and questioning the patient in order to make a diagnosis according to the tradition which he or she utilizes. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are four diagnostic methods: inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiring, and palpation. • Inspection focuses on the face and particularly on the tongue, including analysis of the tongue si

Hello and welcome to Orlando Holistic Acupuncture. My name is Jignesh Panchal and I would like to share some information with you that will help you and your family to optimize your health and improve your quality of living. I hope you find this information as valuable as I have. Some of you may know my history, but for those that do not I will briefly explain my story. Many years ago I had a severe health crisis in which I almost died. Fortunately, when Western medicine fail