Integrative health clinic
La Botica de Casa SanAndo, our Integrative Medicine Clinic, is a space where health and nature come together at all levels. Our consultations and treatments are completely individualized, integrative and oriented to enhance your learning process and maximum expression of well-being. They include techniques from modern medicine as well as ancestral, traditional, and natural medicines. We are truly holistic (and wholistic!).
Casa SanAndo is legally accredited and registered as a General and Integrative Medicine Center in the Official Registry of Health Establishments of Galicia (Spain) under the registration number C-15-004757.
Treatments for your well-being
All our treatments are provided by our physician, specialist in Integrative Medicine and founder of the center, Dr Caetana Varela-Hall. Based both on her knowledge and intuition, as well as her sensitivity, her experience will lead you to an unforgettable experience. She will merge different modalities into each treatment, completely personalized based on your medical history, your needs and your goals, integrating different techniques in each session, making it unique, turning each treatment into a truly integrative fusion of various therapeutic modalities elaborated exclusively for you at that precise moment of your life.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an ancient technique of Traditional Chinese Medicine that consists of inserting fine needles into different points of the body to re-establish health on a physical or emotional level.
The session lasts approximately 60 minutes. Despite what it may seem, the sessions are pleasant and relaxing.
- Through Medical Acupuncture we treat acute and chronic pathologies in the digestive, dermatological, gynecological, urinary, neurological, musculoskeletal, emotional and psychiatric spheres. We also apply it to prevent premature aging, combat stress, gain personal confidence, relax…
- We may also use Aesthetic Acupuncture: it is used to perform lifting, anti-wrinkle, cellulite, rejuvenation, etc.
Massages
Physical contact has been proven scientifically to be vital for the normal development and evolution of the human being. The massages are also sessions in which this contact is received therapeutically. They are manual techniques for body or psychosomatic ailments, thanks to the kneading and manipulation of muscles, improving blood flow in the treated area, lymphatic circulation (body´s drainage of toxins and cellular waste), and the appearance of the skin, as well as the vitality of area. The intensity of the treatment will vary depending on your preferences, objectives and needs.
With the help of natural aromatic oils, the hands and forearms exert rhythmic movements and gentle pressure on the skin, neurosensitively sedating the body, relaxing the mind and providing a feeling of deep relaxation and well-being.
Because the energy channels related to emotions end in the
fingers, with this massage greater emotional lightness is perceived. Of course, the hands and arms are in constant use and physical tension, providing the localized area great muscular relief.
The different miofascial chains of the legs and our feet support the enormous load of our weight in each step we take. The energy meridians related to our body energy end or begin at the toes. Releasing muscle tension and promoting the elimination of waste that accumulates in these tissues is necessary, as well as tremendously relaxing and pleasant.
Especially recommended for those of us who tend to carry weight on our backs, be it physical or emotional, or who spend long hours sitting (yes, the back suffers more from sitting). It is very comforting and renewing.
The face, the scalp, the neck, the mind… Our head engenders and sustains a great part of our existence, and when we recognize it, relax it and treat it (with our hands or with traditional natural elements such as guasha), it rejuvenates our looks, our mind, and our soul.
The muscles, lymph nodes, nerves and microbes of our abdominal organs also appreciate our touch for relaxation, cleansing and optimal function. Especially useful in chronic or functional pathologies, detoxification processes, and emotional imbalances.
Traditionally practiced exclusively by midwives, as the set of percussions, pressures and subtle sensations that are played with during this treatment are literally a feeling of rebirth to your new version of Self. It is a therapy that loosens the physical body, relaxes the emotional body, and frees the spiritual body. It is done wearing light and comfortable clothing and on soft floor surface -tatami- and requires a minimum of 120 minutes.
Full body treatment, wearing Thai pajama and on soft floor surface (tatami), in which tension and physical pain are released through pressure, stretching and osteopathic manipulations.
“Tapping the meridians” (literal translation) is a type of Thai massage, in which rhythmic and constant percussions are applied with traditional instruments (yes, hammers and chisels!!) along the Thai energy meridians and musculoskeletal chains that eliminate muscle knots, trigger points and joint stiffness.
With a generous amount of medicated oil, the Masters or Kahuna “embrace the soul of that body” during this full-body massage experience consisting of pressure, manipulation and stretching throughout the entire body. It is performed on a specific massage bed and covered only with a Hawaiian cloth.
Reiki
In the same way that each of our mothers or caregivers placed their hand on a painful area when we were kids, this energy-based therapy (originally structured in Japan for teaching purposes) uses the imposition of hands (with or without contact) and guided visualizations that induce a semi-hypnotic state, to relax the mind, work on emotional disturbances, traumas or physical pain, modify habits that you want to change, relaxation, etc. Although face-to-face is recommended, it can be done online (video call).
Metamorphic technique
Beautiful foot reflexology technique in which gentle caresses on feet, hands and head produce deep relaxation and light sleep, while energy blockages from previous moments in your personal history are rebalanced.
Reflexology
Technique by which bodily pathologies are treated through distant parts of the body, called “mirror areas”, where perfect maps of the human body are located. Ideal when the affected area cannot be worked on directly (broken bone, acute pathology, spreading possibilities, etc.).
- Feet: massage and pressure with other traditional blunt objects.
- Auricular: application in the ears of needles and pressure seeds. Painless.
- Cranial: application of needles and electrostimulation on the scalp. Painless. Splendid for neurovascular pathology.
Flower-essence therapy
Flower essences are homeopathic remedies with which we work emotional and behavioral attributes and skills characteristic of the world of flowers.
Integrative Medicine Consultations
Sessions in which a complete clinical history, a physical exam, diagnosis, and a treatment or action plan will be made. They take a minimum of 90 minutes and may be performed online.
These are sessions in which a complex and complete clinical history will be evaluating your state of health, including parameters and diagnostic tests of conventional medicine as well as natural medicines, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, indigenous medicines, traditional Mexican medicine, herbal medicine, nutritional habits, supplementation and micronutrition from a functional perspective.
It may include recommendations for supplements, food, medication, or other treatments.
