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About acupuncture...
Acupuncture is an ancient system of healing developed over thousands of years as part of the traditional medicine of China, Japan, and other Eastern countries. The earliest records of acupuncture date back ov...read more
Acupuncture & addictions
Stop Smoking Acupuncture can effectively help with withdrawal symptoms but I cannot help with the habitual aspect of smoking. You have to want to give up smoking and you have to manage the habitual aspect of...read more
Acupuncture and back pain
Back pain is becoming more and more common within our society and there are several reasons for this. Within Chinese Medicine, all pain is caused by stagnation of energy, blood, or body fluids. Muscles are able to move energy...read more
Acupuncture and shonishin
Acupuncture is a traditional Oriental system of healing originating in China about two thousand years ago. As most people know, it involves the insertion of fine needles at specific points around the body to enhance the well ...read more
Acupuncture as a complementary therapy for MS?
Originally from China, acupuncture has been practised in the east for centuries and in recent years has become an increasingly popular treatment in the UK. There is now a body of research building up which de...read more
Acupuncture as an effective treatment for headache
In a recent report, the BMA (British Medical Association) recognised that acupuncture was an effective treatment for headaches. I commonly treat headaches in the clinic and usually get a lot of success.Headac...read more
Acupuncture can cure migraine
Migraines are characterised by an intense throbbing pain that affects either or both sides of the head. Frequently it is felt behind the eyes.There may be nausea or vomiting and even diarrhoe...read more
Acupuncture has the ability to ease headaches
Acupuncture treatments cut the frequency of tension headaches in half in individuals prone to the ailment, a new study found. But the researchers also point out that minimal acupuncture -- de...read more
Acupuncture in MS
Acupuncture is one form of traditional Chinese medicine that is widely used throughout the world. In the United States, acupuncture was relatively rare until the early 1970s. Since then, it has grown quickly ...read more
Acupuncture: pain relief during labour
There are various ways of giving pain relief during labour including epidural injections, gas and air, TENS machine, massage and acupuncture.Until the 1970s, acupuncture was very rarely used ...read more
All musculo-skeletal pain and restricted movement
Acupuncture is very good at treating disorders of the musculo-skeletal system and approximately 50% of our work as acupuncturists falls into this category.Many people visit their G.P. for mus...read more
Alternative psoriasis therapies
The self treatment of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis with unconventional and self administered treatments is a very subjective area and with no scientific studies to support the results it is difficult to ...read more
Alternative therapy's to treat MS
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) refers to those forms of treatment that are not widely in use in conventional medicine.There are a number of CAM...read more
Arthritis pain relief with acupuncture
Acupuncture has been used to relieve arthritis pain in traditional Chinese medicine for many thousands of years. It has recently become a widely used technique in western medicine – both by doctors and...read more
Arthritis: painful onstruction syndrome
Arthritis is known as 'Painful Obstruction Syndrome' in Chinese medicine and is something that acupuncturists commonly treat. Types ‘Wind Bi type’ Joint pain which moves from o...read more
Asthma and acupuncture
The incidence of asthma has been steadily increasing in industrialised countries in the past decades. In spite of the introduction of several new drugs for the treatment of asthma, it is still by far the most...read more
Benefits of acupuncture
Stress reduction An effective way to alleviate anxiety, nervous tension, insomnia, hypertension, stiff neck and shoulders. Allergies and headaches Alleviates allergies, tension headaches, sinus headaches, migraines, and d...read more
Chinese dietary therapy?
In the West we tend to categorize food according to calorific content, mineral and vitamin content. The Chinese medical system categorises food according to the effect that it has on our bodies. For example, ...read more
Difficulty sleeping?
During an acupuncture consultation it is routine to ask about how the patient sleeps and it never ceases to surprise me how many people do not have peaceful, restful sleep. Perhaps it is a sign of the times a...read more
Hay fever treatment: acupuncture
Hay fever is very common in Cheltenham (where I work) and each year I see a lot of people suffering from this complaint. People usually come because they know of someone who benefited from acupuncture...read more
How to cope withe morning sickness?
Morning sickness ranges from 'unpleasant' to life threatening due to severe dehydration. It is very common during the first trimester of pregnancy and often settles down. For some women morning sickness can b...read more
Male infertility: can acupuncture help?
There are many causes of male infertility. Within the theory of Chinese medicine, male infertility is most often associated with dysfunction within the Kidney, Liver and Spleen organs. The Kidneys have prime ...read more
Mental-emotional imbalances
This is a huge subject and I am not planning on covering everything here. I am going to give an outline of the role acupuncture can have in the treatment of mental & emotional imbalances....read more
Put a needle on my body
Acupuncture is a very ancient system of medicine where healing is provided by inserting a very fine needle through the skin, sometimes manipulated and then withdrawn. This system of medicine ...read more
Sciatica: an introduction
Sciatica is a symptom, not a diagnosis. Normally there is pain in the buttock, which then radiates down the leg. The pain either goes down the back of the leg, or down the side. In Traditional Chinese...read more
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