Welcome to the Acupuncture practice of Jacqueline Völlmy - Naturopath with federal diploma in Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM.

Recognized by all insurance companies (including EGK and Visana)

Since January 1998, in Oron-la-Ville, 20 km from Lausanne, I have been practicing various forms of so-called "alternative" therapies.

Are you suffering from joint pain? Degenerative vision disorders? Would you like to rebalance your vital energies for inner and outer well-being? Do you have any questions about what acupuncture and naturopathy can do for you according to your needs and ailments? Contact me without hesitation!

I've been practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine since 1999. It was after training in acupuncture for the eyes with Professor John Boel in French-speaking Switzerland, that I obtained my diploma.

Your case is unique, you have questions, doubts, contact me without hesitation at : 079 247 23 12.

OCULAR ACUPUNCTURE

Acupuncture 2000: 70% success rate

Acupuncture and the eyes

Traditional Chinese medicine offers ophthalmic medicine a complementary and preventive therapeutic approach. Eye diseases are not based solely on local symptoms and signs, but on syndromes including the whole body.

There are numerous scientific studies demonstrating the efficacy of acupuncture for eye disorders: inflammations, ocular allergies, dry eyes, ophthalmic migraines, intraocular tension disorders (glaucoma).

Eye disorders can have various origins: poor emotional management (sadness and/or anger, anxiety, stress...) inadequate diet, lack of nutrients (nutritional advice will be given to you at the practice.). The eyes are technology's biggest victims, with more than 6 hours a day spent in front of a screen tiring them considerably. It's important to give them a moment's respite by massaging them: immediate relief, relaxation, improved circulation of energy and vision.This technique will be taught to you at the practice.

TARIFF: CHF 160 for a 2-hour session with break.

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Maladies oculaires chroniques

There are almost 10,000 of them! Each of them can be treated with the Pr. John Boel method that I practice in my office. Pr. John Boel, a Danish naturopath, developed over 20 years ago an acupuncture method specially designed for eye diseases, which combines elements of classical Chinese acupuncture with other acupuncture microsystems. 

Ocular acupuncture points are located on the face, hands and feet. There are no punctures in the eyes!

Parallel to this treatment, you should modify your diet to relieve the liver and kidneys.

• What is acupuncture?

It's a therapeutic method that considers man as a whole and in his relationship with the cosmic environment (seasons, climates, temperature...).

The ideograms referring to acupuncture mean "method of needles and fire", so the technique involves pricking and/or heating specific areas of the body with the aim of curing or ameliorating many illnesses.

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM ACUPUNCTURE?

Any "illness" is the manifestation of an energetic imbalance, and the patients who present themselves to us are of three kinds:

• those who don't feel well, without there being any apparent manifestation,
• those who present a certain number of signs without there being any alteration in general condition,
• patients who present both disturbances of general condition and disorders that are the manifestation of energetic imbalance.

Energy imbalances
What is the origin of energy imbalances?

• heredity,
• certain vaccinations,
• drug intoxications,
• physical or psychological trauma,
• poor lifestyle,
• the poor quality of the air breathed,
• environmental *stresses.

How does the acupuncturist perceive the energy imbalance?

The Chinese clinical examination includes, in addition to pulse taking, certain modalities that can be summarized as follows

• see
• listening and feeling
• interrogate
• palpate certain areas of the body.

which makes it possible to classify the visible and invisible signs of an energetic imbalance according to the notions of YIN/YANG and the law of the five elements, this is the ENERGY BALANCE.

How to restore energy balance?

Acupuncture doesn't bring energy, it channels, mobilizes, energizes or slows down YOUR OWN ENERGY.
Depending on the nature of the imbalance, we act on points which have a specific action either on certain qualities of energy, or which allow adaptation in a determined season.

WHICH PROCEDURES ARE USED?

Puncture (needles) moxibustion, cupping and tuina (Chinese massage)

CAN ACUPUNCTURE HEAL EVERYTHING?

Quoting Doctor VAN NGHI:
"In an infectious disease, the penetration of a micro-organism will be considered secondary. The real cause is anterior: a weakness in man's energy that has allowed the organism to be attacked".

The role of acupuncture is to reinforce the body's natural defenses so as to create an unfavorable terrain for the development of the germ.
Some serious microbial affections must justify the use of medication, but should be treated in parallel with acupuncture because, as the Chinese proverb says:
"Killing the intruder is not closing the door".
The needles, on the other hand, propose to close it again by rebalancing the subject.

ABOUT SOME INDICATIONS FOR ACUPUNCTURE

Traditional Acupuncture is above all a PREVENTIVE technique for all disorders linked to a lack of healthy living, and is indicated:

• to preserve a state of good health,
• to rebalance a subject from the very first sensations of SICKNESS ,
• to help a patient regain a state of good health, in parallel with conventional medical treatment of a non-lesional disease, enable in the case of a lesional disease, in parallel with medical treatment, to provide the comfort of increased relief from the symptoms from which the patient suffers.

As part of a healthy lifestyle, Acupuncture helps to:

• assure the follow-up of a pregnancy, vomiting, prepare a good Immunology for the future child, deficient breastfeeding,
• assisting a person towards all weaning: diet, tobacco, drugs, medication etc.
• increased effectiveness of cellulite treatments,
• preventive ANTIGRIPPAL treatment,
• prevention of many allergies (hay fever, sun etc..)
• accelerate recovery processes after serious events: accidents, operations, difficult childbirths etc.
• night-time snoring,
• nervous tension, stress, anxiety,
• sleep,
• emotional and psychic balance,
• school problems: lack of concentration, fatigue, memory exam preparation ( stress, anxiety etc...)
• "sports doping" very effective,
• menopausal disorders: prevention of premature aging and demineralization + +,
• all forms of fatigue
.

But also in parallel with medical treatment:

• significantly accelerate repair times on fractures, burns, wounds, sprains, joint pain, neck pain, back pain, lumbar pain, muscle ruptures etc.
• respiratory diseases, skin diseases,
• blood circulation
• women's cycle disorders.

All this being only indicative and not limitative.

Are THERE ANY CONTRAINDICATIONS TO ACUPUNCTURE?

Of course, every therapy has its limits, and we can't imagine that such an ancient medicine would be unaware of any contraindications.
As a general rule, acupuncture will not be able to intervene (as the main treatment) in diseases with irreversible lesions.
In trauma: fractures, dislocations, it can accelerate consolidation processes and reduce pain.
Disorders due to hereditary or congenital factors can never be completely resolved.
Great energy deficiencies, such as malnutrition, do not fall within its action.

Counter-indications to treatment are:

• an emaciated subject or one in a state of physical decay,
• after significant bleeding,
• after profuse sweating (sauna, exertion...),
• after significant diarrhea,
• after childbirth, if there has been significant blood loss,
• when fever is high with a calm pulse,
• after coitus (likewise avoid coitus in the hours following the session),
• during great anger,
• during great thirst,
• after a long journey,
• after intense fear,
• after a blood transfusion, or blood donation.

Most of these contraindications are temporary, lasting from a few hours to a few days.
Signal that hormonal products, without being a contraindication to acupuncture, often diminish its action and that it often takes several weeks after cessation of treatment to be able to mobilize energy normally.

WHAT IS THE DURATION OF A SESSION?

The duration of a session depends:

• the patient's condition
• his or her reactions to the puncture
.

Fees. 1st session: frs 150.- then frs 130.-

WHAT IS THE FREQUENCY OF SESSIONS?

An acupuncture session has an immediate effect, which may only be perceived by the acupuncturist in terms of pulse changes.
The time between sessions corresponds to the period during which the effects of the puncture continue to manifest themselves.

In the most common cases, one session per week or every fortnight, is sufficient. It can be longer. The spacing between sessions can vary, for the same patient, as his or her condition changes. In acute cases, it may be necessary to do several sessions a week, or even a day.

ARE THERE ANY REACTIONS TO THE SESSION?

Most often, the patient experiences few manifestations immediately after the puncture. Their energies are gently, insensitively but surely rebalanced.
In some cases, the patient may experience various reactions such as: immediate relief, great relaxation or a temporary increase in the symptom, fatigue.
This last reaction is only the result of energy work and should not be cause for concern; you should inform your practitioner, who will assess the importance to be attached to it.

HOW MANY SESSIONS SHOULD YOU EXPECT FOR A TREATMENT?

When the individual is subject to permanent stress, whether psychological or due to air pollution, noise, poor dietary hygiene or excess medication, treatment will take longer.
When one of these nuisances cannot be avoided, acupuncture, by harmonizing the patient's energies, enables him or her to react little by little with the best possible defenses.
When the imbalance is of hereditary origin, the treatment is long, but it gradually enables the patient to make the best use of the resources at his or her disposal.
The number of sessions cannot be fixed from the outset. In fact, the success of an acupuncture treatment depends on many variables: the extent and nature of the external or internal cause of the energy imbalance, the importance of the hereditary factor, but also the cosmic environment, which may or may not be favourable at a given moment to the positive evolution of a pathology. Lastly, it depends on the patient's energy resources at the time he or she comes to see us, and on his or her own efforts to establish a healthy lifestyle.

IS THE TREATMENT DURABLE?

In most cases, energy regulation brings either healing or lasting improvement over time.
But some chronic "illnesses" can only be improved temporarily.
In all cases, maintaining the acquired improvement depends on a healthy lifestyle, an indispensable element in maintaining health.

WHY ARE THE POINTS USED NOT ALWAYS THE SAME?

The patient's energetic state evolves as the sessions progress, and the choice of points to treat depends on this evolution.
Furthermore, some points have a specific seasonal action, so the time of year considered determines the choice of certain points.

Does ACUPUNCTURE HAVE A PREVENTIVE ROLE?
Since pulse-taking can detect any energy imbalance before symptoms appear, one of acupuncture's roles is to treat any ailment before it manifests.
It is therefore unquestionably a preventive therapy.

CAN YOU TREAT SEASONAL DISORDERS?

In cases of chronic seasonal disorders, it is advisable for the patient to consult his acupuncturist at the times of year preceding their manifestation. The practitioner knows how to determine them, and thus spares the patient the discomforts to which he or she was previously prone.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRADITIONAL ACUPUNCTURE AND WESTERN MEDICINE?

Acupuncture, an age-old therapy, stems from the great principles of Chinese cosmogony:

• everything is energy,
• this energy animates the cosmos as a whole,
• each being is but a particular form of energy, man who suffers is no longer in harmony either with himself or with the cosmos.

The traditional acupuncturist who lives this "philosophy" reharmonizes man with the energies that surround him through the action of the needles.

HE TREATS THE MAN, NOT THE DISEASE.

Western medicine operates in a radically different way.
It proceeds to identify symptoms, and groups them together in terms of "disease" its therapeutic act most often consists of making the symptoms disappear.

• The action of Traditional Acupuncture can begin at the very first energetic disorders (2), (the body's energies are in disharmony) and it's only the traditional examination that can bring them to light. Western medicine, not observing any symptoms, can't act.
   
• In a more advanced stage (3), with the terrain weakened by energetic disorders, stress may intervene secondarily.
  Harm is then present, this is the "incubation" period.
  
  Western Medicine does not yet observe any symptoms and therefore cannot intervene.
  
  But, for Traditional Acupuncture, there is already energetic imbalance and the presence of harm.
   
• When symptoms appear (4), Western Medicine begins to act.
  This is in fact for Acupuncture the terminal stage of the condition.
  
  At the symptom stage, the Traditional Acupuncturist will search through his examination for the causal energetic imbalance, he will re-establish the energetic balance that will make the symptom disappear.
   
• At the lesion stage (5), Acupuncture is less efficient, but its action is far from negligible. It cannot be the main treatment.
  
  When the Traditional Acupuncturist observes the state of energetic balance (1) according to well-defined criteria, he can conclude to a state of good health.
  
  In Western Medicine, it is only the absence of symptoms that allows such an affirmation.

 

DID YOU HAVE TO BE A DOCTOR TO BE AN ACUPUNCTOR? The quality of a Traditional Acupuncturist does not depend on his or her Western medical training, as only the practitioner, whether a doctor or not, who has received training making him or her capable of reasoning according to Chinese logic and treating according to the Chinese medical tradition can call himself or herself an Acupuncturist.

IS THERE A DIAGNOSIS IN TRADITIONAL ACUPUNCTURE?

As we've already said, the Doctor of Medicine makes his diagnosis based on a series of symptoms that enable him to define the disease.
In Traditional Acupuncture the diagnosis is an energetic assessment that consists of evaluating in quantity and quality the totality of the patient's energies.

Chinese massage:
While part of the therapeutic means of Chinese medicine, traditional massage is at the same time an autonomous discipline that can treat a wide range of ailments and suffering.

Tuina here encompasses a variety of gestures applicable to soft tissues as well as joints and organs.
Traditional Chinese massage is remarkably effective. It aims to restore mobility, reduce tissue stress and improve energy and fluid circulation. Its indications, well beyond joint problems, are numerous in internal medicine.

From trauma care to the treatment of stress, pain, end-of-life accompaniment, preparation of athletes and pregnant women, complementary treatment of certain major illnesses, Chinese manual medicine always offers, to the sufferer, an efficient and humane solution.

LIFTING AND ACUPUNCTURE

Before embarking on a facelift, we recommend 2 or 3 energy rebalancing sessions. Then count on 6 to 8 sessions once a week preferably in spring and autumn, then 1 to 2 sessions in each season.

External factors in skin aging:

• wind: dryness;
• heat: blood and body fluids;
• cold: circulation blood ;
• moisture: edema; chemicals (creams, lotions).

Internal factors

• diet;
• medication ;
• stress ;
• smoking;

Organ imbalance is reflected on the face

• the heart: complexion of the face;
• the liver: blocked organ, saturated, blood circulation disrupted; 
• kidneys: manage body fluids ; 
• stomach: organ most concerned with emotions, and spleen imbalance engenders resentment;
• kidneys, large intestine and liver: drainage functions.

Acupuncture lifting restores skin suppleness, elasticity, tone and radiance from the very first session.

Tuina (Chinese massage)practiced before each session improves circulation, strengthens cellular nutrition. Vital energy will be better distributed.

In the worst case: stabilization of existing wrinkles

In the majority of cases: prevention of incipient wrinkles, elimination of small wrinkles.

• - Organic plant oils used:
• Jojoba: its composition is close to sebum and reinforces the hydrolipidic film
• Onager: anti-aging
• argan: restores elasticity
• avocado: ideal for eye contour, lips and neck
• bourrache: eczema, psoriasis, dry, devitalized and tired skin
   
• Organic essential oils:
• geranium: wrinkles and couperose
• helichrysum:  promotes circulation
• ciste ladanifère _ firming
• encense: anti-aging
• lavande vraie: regulates sebum and renews skin cells
   
• Organic hydrosols: lotions and toners adapted to skin needs (internal or external use)

Self-massage reduces tension and stiffness and slows facial contour sagging. Nutritional advice and self-massage will be provided during the first session.

By opting for acupuncture lifting, you'll experience facial and emotional results and improved organic functions.

A tuina session is often complemented by acupuncture, cupping and/or moxa treatment.
Price: frs 130.- per hour
 

FORMATIONS

• 1994-1998 IEATC, Paris
• 2005 - Yi-Zao School

SPECIALIZATIONS

• Auriculotherapy
• Aesthetics and acupuncture

DIPLOMAS

• IEATC
• CREAT
• FNMTC
• OPS-MTC
• Diplôme Féféral en Médecine traditionnelle chinoise MTC acupuncture