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Acupuncture, Gua Sha, Moxibustion & Chinese Herbs

Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture in Carrboro, NC

About Kim Calandra, L.Ac.

I focus my private practice on the mental-emotional aspect of pain and disease. I guide my patients through the healing process of understanding, feeling, and ultimately processing core emotional experiences. When treating the mind-body-spirit in this way, symptomatic manifestations of pain and dis-ease resolve and heal.

Another focus of my practice is the wonderful world of fertility. With my personal experience of being a surrogate and navigating IVF and fertility treatments, I am able to relate and empathize with women. Acupuncture helps calm and attune the body-mind-spirit in order for optimal conditions for conception.

I have been practicing acupuncture in Carrboro, NC for eighteen years. I owned and operated Carrboro Community Acupuncture from 2013-2020. CCA was a grassroots affordable healthcare model of practicing acupuncture.

Plant spirit medicine, raising teenage daughters, soul searching, the Yoga disciplines, and staying in tune with the seasons are where I find joy in life.

Find me at my office in Carrboro, at Wax Poetic in Carrboro, and for community acupuncture at Wellville Massage & Healing Arts in Durham.

Services Offered

Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine treatments in Carrboro, NC to help you live a fulfilling and pain-free life

Acupuncture

Acupuncture improves the body's functions and promotes the natural self-healing process

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Gua Sha

Gua sha is a natural, alternative therapy that involves scraping your skin with a massage tool to improve your circulation and release stagnant blood and toxins.

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Moxibustion

Moxibustion, or Moxa, is a method of heating specific acupuncture points on the body by burning an herb material close to the skin.

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Chinese Herbs

Chinese herbal therapy aims to help you regain balance in your body and to strengthen your body's resistance to disease

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Conditions Treated

Some of the Western diagnoses that can be treated with Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine

In an official report, Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials, the WHO (WHO) has listed the following symptoms, diseases and conditions that have been shown through controlled trials to be treated effectively by acupuncture:

Low back pain
Neck Pain
Sciatica
Tennis Elbow
Knee Pain
Periarthritis of the shoulder
Sprains
Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
Headache
Dental pain

Tempromandibular (TMJ) dysfunction
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Induction of labor
Correction of malposition of fetus (breech presentation)
Morning sickness
Nausea and vomiting
Postoperative pain
Stroke
Essential hypertension
Primary hypotension

Renal colic
Leucopenia
Adverse reactions to radiation or chemotherapy
Allergic rhinitis, including hay fever
Biliary colic
Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
Acute bacillary dysentery
Primary dysmenorrhea
Acute epigastralgia
Peptic ulcer
Acute and chronic gastritis

Now Offering

Online Consultations

Now offering Chinese Medicine consultation visits over the phone or FaceTime. I will be able to address many health concerns through careful symptom examination. I will prescribe a custom Chinese Herb formula through Crane Herb Company. We will discuss diet changes, and recommend over-the-counter supplements. I will bill through invoice in 15 minute increments. The initial visit typically takes 45 minutes. Follow ups are 15 minutes.

Conditions commonly treated: arthritis, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, depression, upset stomach, dysmenorrhea, migraines, fertility, and many more.

Appointments can be made by email at serenityandwisdom@gmail.com.

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Virtual Consultations - Acupuncture in Carrboro

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Appointments can be made by text, email or phone call

Carrboro, NC

919-971-3934
serenityandwisdom@gmail.com