Naturopathy & acupuncture
We use acupuncture and naturopathic methods alongside conventional treatment, wherever they can genuinely help you.
When naturopathic treatments can help
Naturopathy describes methods that aim to maintain or restore health using natural means. That covers exercise therapy and herbal medicine, and acupuncture too.
Many complaints can be eased this way alongside conventional care. With some, conventional treatment will get you further faster, and we will say so.
- Menopausal complaints
- Support with the desire to have children
- Menstrual complaints & pain
- Support during pregnancy
What acupuncture can support
These are the complaints we can support with acupuncture at our practice in Lübeck. How many sessions it takes depends on how long you have had them.
Areas of use
- Gynecological complaints
- For example recurring abdominal pain or problems with your cycle.
- Menstrual pain
- Alongside other care, when painkillers alone are not enough or you would rather not take them long term.
- Chronic pain
- When complaints have persisted for months and your current treatment is not enough.
- Birth preparation
- Towards the end of pregnancy, to shorten and ease labor.
- Pregnancy complaints
- For nausea, water retention, back pain, migraine or itching skin.
- Smoking cessation
- As support while you quit. It will not make the decision for you.
- Weight loss
- Alongside a change of diet, not instead of one.
How acupuncture is understood to work
Acupuncture comes from traditional Chinese medicine. It assumes that life energy flows through the body along fixed pathways, and that complaints arise when this flow is disturbed or blocked. Fine needles at particular points are intended to restore that balance.
Unlike Western medicine, it looks less at the individual symptom and more at how the person, their environment and their way of living work together. We use acupuncture as a complement, never in place of necessary conventional treatment.
What health insurers cover
Some of these methods count as alternative treatments, and the statutory insurers do not generally recognize them as effective therapies. Not every insurer will reimburse the cost. We tell you what treatment with us costs before it starts.
Get personal advice.
We are happy to discuss which treatments are right for you.