Acupoint stimulation helps balance and strengthen the body's energy. By using tiny needles or gentle pressure on special points, it helps the body work better and feel healthier.

Types of acupoint stimulation we offer: 

• Shoni Shin a gentle Japanese treatment for children that doesn't use needles. Instead, small metal tools lightly scratch, tap, or brush the skin to help the body feel balanced and relaxed. It's a popular method in Japan to make kids feel better.
• Acupressure is a way to help your child feel better by touching or massaging specific spots on their skin. It can relieve pain, nausea, and anxiety. You can even learn to do it yourself!
• Pediatric acupuncture is a special kind of acupuncture for kids from 1 month to 18 years old. A trained practitioner uses very thin, single-use needles at specific spots on the body. Sometimes, small bandages with tiny beads, tacks, or magnets, called "acubeads," "acutacks," and "acumagnets," are used instead.

Most children do not think these treatments are painful. Many say shoni-shi feels like light tickling. Some say acupuncture feels like a small mosquito bite, or a gentle finger flick, if they feel it at all.

Acupoint stimulation can help manage symptoms linked to the following conditions:

• Allergies
• Anxiety
• Asthma
• Bed wetting
• Cold and flu
• Colic
• Constipation
• Cough
• Cancer
• Diarrhea
• Ear infection
• Eczema
• Emotional outbursts
• Headaches
• Muscle weakness and fatigue
• Nausea
• Pain (of all kinds)
• Poor sleeping patterns
• Seizures and epilepsy
• Stomach aches

Techniques like massage, meditation, yoga, and muscle relaxation can reduce stress and anxiety.

Nutrition

Integrative Medicine practitioners will offer tips for your child’s diet. An Eastern Medicine practitioner can explain how different foods affect your energy and health. For serious or ongoing issues, it's best to get advice from an Intermountain dietitian.

Herbal consultations

Herbal medicine should be given by a trained professional. Don't buy Chinese or other patent medicines over the counter or online—they can be unsafe. Your herbalist will give you safe herbs from trusted companies. Herbal medicine can work well and is usually only needed for a short time to help balance your system.

Aromatherapy uses essential oils to boost health and well-being. These oils, taken directly from plants, have been used for healing for thousands of years. While they don’t cure diseases, they can help with symptoms. Aromatherapy is often combined with regular medical treatments and other Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapies like massage and acupuncture. Essential oils are usually inhaled or applied to the skin.

Aromatherapy can help with symptoms through smell. Here are three examples of how common essential oils can work:

• Lavender: Taken from lavender flowers, it is often used to calm, comfort, or lift a person’s mood.
• Mandarin oil: Extracted from mandarin peels, it provides a calming effect and relieves stomach discomfort.
• Peppermint: Comes from peppermint leaves, used to calm and comfort, and to relieve stomach upset.