Dr. Elizabeth Chen Christenson and her staff at CHI Medical Center offer Acupuncture as an effective treatment option for many different health conditions. The doctor serves residents throughout Hawaii, including those who live in and around the Kailua area.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture Specialist

by Elizabeth Chen Christenson, MD, LAc
Acupuncture
East Asian Medicine is becoming more and more accredited in western society and one of its most popular modalities is acupuncture. For thousands of years, knowledge of energy meridians in the body was known through designated acupuncture points to effectively release, transfer and direct essential energetic forces in the human system.
Western medical practices concentrate on external obstructions of health, such as traumatic injuries and bacterial and viral infections. Eastern medicine emphasizes the internal and external Yin–Yang balance, as well as, internal harmony of the Five Elements Theory: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Through millennia of observation and evaluation of these distinct properties of nature and their influences on physical, mental and psycho-emotional-spiritual wellness, acupuncture developed as part of a distinguished medical system that recognized the inter-dimensional aspects of illness and wellness as manifestations of a person’s relationship with natural and universal energies.
Following are quotes from two world-renown scientists regarding energy and psychological and spiritual aspects:
“If you want to know the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” – Nicola Tesla, Physicist, Engineer, Futurist and Inventor
“Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.” – Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy – Johns Hopkins University
Acupuncture is a specialized skill that is recognized by the National Institute of Health’s NCCIH as being clinically proven to improve numerous health issues, some of which are:
- Acute and chronic pain management
- Low-back, neck, shoulder and sciatica pain
- Headaches
- Muscular tension and spasms
- Nausea
- Hypertension and hypotension
- Asthma
- Depression