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Balanced Being Acupuncture
  • HomeProviding the Triangle region of North Carolina with a patient-centric and holistic approach to health. Our focus– restoring lost vitality, improving quality of life, and preventing disease. From our clinic near Southpoint in Durham, North Carolina, Balanced Being Acupuncture passionately provides The Triangle area with a uniquely powerful and elegant form of healing aimed at relieving pain, preventing disease, improving quality of life, and restoring lost vitality. Classical Chinese Medicine is a different kind of acupuncture that does not rely on a herbs, which may contain toxic ingredients, cause side-effects, or interact with prescription medications. I’m Jon-Erik Lido, licensed acupuncturist and owner of Balanced Being Acupuncture. I invite you to explore this web site to learn more about how our special approach can help you, your family and friends to achieve your own unique health goals. Whether you desire help with sleep issues (insomnia or somnolence), pain (from back ache to arthritis to fibromyalgia), chronic fatigue, fertility, depression or some concern that may not even have a name, I am here to be your partner in health, using acupuncture to help you achieve the best possible results. My approach is holistic and patient-centric. This means that I take the time…
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  • What is Acupuncture?Acupuncture is an ancient health system used to increase vitality, find relief from pain, enhance fertility, and address many common conditions and ailments. While “western medicine” mainly treats symptoms with drugs and surgery, acupuncture optimizes and balances the functional aspects of the body. For many of us, the whole idea of acupuncture as a way to gain energy and vitality, to find relief from pain, to enhance our fertility, or to address our nagging health complaints is pretty hard to grasp. In our everyday experience of the world we see little that would lend us to believe that inserting very fine needles in precise locations on the body would treat or prevent medical conditions. The kind of acupuncture I do is a completely different paradigm for health than the “western model”. The “western model” that your M.D. uses is based on disease. If you come in with high blood pressure, she gives you a pill that makes your kidneys work harder so that number goes down. If you have acid reflux (stomach acid going up into your esophagus) she gives you a pill that makes your stomach produce less acid. Your doctor reacts to diseases that you already have. Your…
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About Balanced Being Acupuncture

At Balanced Being Acupuncture we love helping people achieve vibrant health. We use Classical acupuncture to achieve optimal results without the use of herbs. Treatments at Balanced Being Acupuncture are performed by classically trained Durham Acupuncturist, Jon-Erik Lido.

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Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force — known as qi or chi (CHEE) — believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your body and most commonly used to treat pain.

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