Traditional Chinese Medicine

The purpose of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is to seek balance. TCM is a natural medical system that has withstood thousands of years of practice and results.

TCM can treat much more than you think. From injuries, to skin conditions, digestive imbalances, fertility support and mental health. TCM is capable of aiding the most stubborn of ailments (Click here for a full list from the World Health Organisation).

Every person that comes through my cabin doors is treated individually, tailoring the treatment to their specific presenting conditions and needs.  It is a completely holistic experience as my overall aim is to treat the ‘root cause’ rather than just the symptoms.

The modalities I use in my clinic include acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, gua sha and ear seeding. 

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Acupuncture

 Acupuncture works by restoring balance and triggering the body’s natural healing response.

Traditional acupuncture is based on the belief that an energy, or ‘life force’, flows through the body in channels called meridians. 

These meridians are now known to follow our nerve pathways very closely.  Acupuncture stimulates the sensory nerves, which in turn results in the body producing natural substances like pain relieving endorphins.

When we have an injury or trauma, physical or emotional, the movement of the free flowing energy is often stunted and blocked.  It is these blockages that cause dis-ease and problems, often leading to pain and discomfort within the body and the emotions.

Basically we are not in balance anymore and our bodies and emotional state are not flowing freely and happily as they should.

When acupuncture needles are inserted they cause a ‘micro trauma’ to the area which then stimulates blood flow and flushes the area with fresh blood, carrying rich nutrients and oxygen (often prohibited in a restricted area, due to pain, tension and tightness.)

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World Health Organisation list of Conditions

The World Health Organisation recommends acupuncture for these diseases, symptoms or conditions, because acupuncture has been ‘prove[d] – through controlled 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 World Health Organisation recommends acupuncture because its therapeutic effect has been shown, although 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 generalised 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) herpes virus 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)