After scheduling your appointment, please print and complete the first visit form found on this web sites home page. Thank you for visiting acupuncture Connecticut (CT). How do I treat common colds with acupuncture in Connecticut (CT)? Most of the acupuncture points for colds are on the upper body. When a needle is inserted into the body, your immune system is redirected to the needle. Since most colds are acquired by touching your nose, eyes, mouth, and ears. Directing your immune system toward the colds entry point helps your body defend and defeat the virus or bacteria. Now this is a very simplistic explanation but it can server as a starting point for your understanding of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.   1. Common-Cold               2. Flu 3. Fatigue Colds 4. Summer Flu An unusual cold occurring during the summer months, I have treated this condition on about 5 occasions. Symptoms of this condition have presented as sore throat, fever, lots of sweating, vomiting, and unable to work for the week. A patient of mine has a severe case of summer flu this year. Because he/she had a history of cancer a CAT scan was done to rule out a recurrence of cancer. Two weeks after it’s onset the patient came to my office for treatment. The patient improved quickly and returned to work within 3 days.    After scheduling your appointment, please print and complete the first visit form found on this web sites home page. Thank you for visiting acupuncture Connecticut (CT). Fatigue colds tend to occur suddenly. This type of cold occurs after long hours of work, study, lack of exercise, infrequent vacations, and stressful events. Symptoms include constant catching of colds, cold symptoms, fatigue, weak voice, and shortness of breath. As the cold weather becomes more prominent at the end of fall, and with fewer opportunities to open windows the flu season starts in Connecticut (CT). The symptoms frequently seen with flu include fever, sweating, sore throat, vomiting, and coughs with yellow phlegm. Symptoms include cold symptoms, no perspiration, headache, runny nose, aches and pains that move from location to location. The patient frequently feels better when leaving the office but still needs time to rest. The common cold spreads thru Connecticut (CT) in the spring and fall like an epidemic, once people start to close the windows and doors. The fluctuating weather hot then cold with little movement of air in the houses allow for the spread of this disease.