Welcome to Ageless Acupuncture
We are a full service holistic healing center and the area's first Chinese Medicine Pharmacy located in the heart of Downtown Saratoga Springs, NY. Just off Broadway with ample parking, our clinic offers acupuncture, Chinese Medicinals, Ayurvedic consultations, Ayurvedic herbs, cupping, herbal supplements, essential oils, and enriching workshops. Please see our events page for details.
The clinic is owned by Bridgette J. Kinder, L. Ac. M.Ac.O.M.
Clinic hours are Mon - Fri by appointment only.
Please feel free to call us for an appointment anytime at: (518) 538 - 6568.
We hope to see you soon,
Bridgette Kinder
When we think of medicine we think of our medicine, western, modern, or allopathic medicine. Images that may come to mind may be a doctor in a white coat taking our pulse, checking our blood pressure, or writing us a script. Maybe we think of the taste of some liquid our mom made us drink as a kid, or of a loved one ill in a hospital. More recently we may think of Obamacare.
Long before modern medicine, there were several other medical systems dating back thousands of years. I’m not just talking about some pre-historic person using a plant to heal a wound or settle a stomach. I’m talking about complete systems of medicine that recognize and define medical conditions as we do today, have complete diagnostic and prognostic guidelines as we do today, and utilize complex preparations of medicinals to treat these conditions, as we do today... READ MORE
According to the WHO, Diseases, Symptoms or Conditions for Which Acupuncture Has Been proven, through controlled clinical trials, to be an effective treatment:
Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
Biliary colic
Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
Dysentery, acute bacillary
Dysmenorrhoea, primary
Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
Headache
Hypertension, essential
Hypotension, primary
Induction of labour
Knee pain
Leukopenia
Low back pain
Malposition of fetus (correction of)
Morning sickness
Nausea and vomiting
Neck pain
Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
Periarthritis of shoulder
Postoperative pain
Renal colic
Rheumatoid arthritis
Sciatica
Sprain
Stroke
Tennis elbow
Diseases, symptoms, or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been shown, but for which further proof is needed:
Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
Acne vulgaris
Alcohol dependence and detoxification
Bell’s palsy
Bronchial asthma
Cancer pain
Cardiac neurosis
Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
Cholelithiasis
Competition stress syndrome
Craniocerebral injury, closed
Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
Earache
Epidemic haemorrhagic fever
Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)
Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
Female infertility
Facial spasm
Female urethral syndrome
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Gastrokinetic disturbance
Gouty arthritis
Hepatitis B virus carrier status
Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)
Hyperlipaemia
Hypo-ovarianism
Insomnia
Labour pain
Lactation, deficiency
Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
Ménière disease
Neuralgia, post-herpetic
Neurodermatitis
Obesity
Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
Osteoarthritis
Pain due to endoscopic examination
Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans
Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
Postextubation in children
Postoperative convalescence
Premenstrual syndrome
Prostatitis, chronic
Pruritus
Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome
Raynaud syndrome, primary
Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Retention of urine, traumatic
Schizophrenia
Sialism, drug-induced
Sjögren syndrome
Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
Spine pain, acute
Stiff neck
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
Tietze syndrome
Tobacco dependence
Tourette syndrome
Ulcerative colitis, chronic
Urolithiasis
Vascular dementia
Whooping cough (pertussis)
Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which there are only individual controlled trials reporting some therapeutic effects, but for which acupuncture is worth trying because treatment by conventional and other therapies is difficult:
Chloasma
Choroidopathy, central serous
Colour blindness
Deafness
Hypophrenia
Irritable colon syndrome
Neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury
Pulmonary heart disease, chronic
Small airway obstruction
Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture may be tried provided the practitioner has special modern medical knowledge and adequate monitoring equipment:
Breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Coma
Convulsions in infants
Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris)
Diarrhoea in infants and young children
Encephalitis, viral, in children, late stage
Paralysis, progressive bulbar and pseudobulbar
Please note: The ailments listed above are limited to treatment by acupuncture only. At Ageless Acupuncture, we practice Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine in conjunction with acupuncture, so our scope of practice and treatment is not limited to what is listed here. For more information on Traditional Chinese Medicine, please visit The World Health Organization's website here...
Please visit The World Health Organization's website for more detailed information of the types of illnesses and injuries that can be treated with acupuncture...
AGELESS ACUPUNCTURE
2 Franklin Square
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
(518) 538 - 6568