Back pain can be described as pain on one or both sides of the lumbar region and acupuncture can help with lower back pain. It is different to sciatica although …
BlogAcupuncture for Lower Back Pain
In Ancient China, the best doctors …
In ancient China, the best doctors had no sick patients. If you had sick patients, you were a ‘bad’ doctor. I’m going to paraphrase and butcher history here quiet a …
BlogWhat Symptoms?
Traditional Chinese Medicine has a long and complex history. But boiled down to its basics, it views the individual as an integrated whole. What does this mean? It means, as …
BlogAcupuncture points for swollen hands
Swollen hands are caused by a build up and retention of fluid (oedema) in the hands. The cause of this can range from a physical injury or trauma to medications, …
BlogAcupuncture for back pain
Pain takes many different forms – dull, aches, sharp, throbbing and stabbing are different descriptions of pain. They point to somewhat different syndromes and give a clue where to start …
BlogAutumn is time for letting go, Winter the time for deep structural change
Looking to start some deep, structural changes within yourself? A personal transformation that goes beyond outward appearances? Those changes that aren’t just superficial but a deep transformation in the way …
BlogOur Emotions and Food
Food therapy of course is just a fancy name for what we should be eating according to our needs. There is much written about foods and the effect on the organs in Chinese Medicine but I wanted to take a different slant and approach it from “how do the foods we eat make us feel emotionally?”
BlogCupping
Cupping is a modality within Chinese Medicine used to move Qi (‘energy’) and Xue (‘blood’). In the treatment, suction is created on the skin by applying cups, usually glass or …
BlogWhat does an Acupuncture Treatment Involve?
There are many different styles of acupuncture and modalities of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Each has their own advantages and particular uses and only after a full diagnosis can we decide …
BlogWhat is Acupuncture College like?
I get asked this a lot. What is acupuncture college like? There’s a huge difference between colleges in how they teach, what they teach, the hours involved, the way assignments …