Five Elements
The word acupuncture literally means ‘to puncture with a needle’, but its usage is relatively new; it was first used as a verb in 1972. Acupuncture itself, though, has been around a long time, and it has picked up more than one way to puncture the skin along the way. There is the Chinese system of […]
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Change is inevitable – defy it at your own peril! You will have gathered from my earlier posts that change is going to happen whether you like it or not. So perhaps it would be easier if we made more of an occasion of the changes in our lives. It seems to me that […]
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Once again Acupuncture comes to the rescue when it seems like there is no hope! Here is another success story dealing with PCOS and the absence of periods (amenorrhoea). Vicki is 33 years old and she came to see me for acupuncture because she hadn’t had a period for over two years. She had […]
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In my last blog I wrote about the Gall Bladder and its importance when it comes to coping with change. But the Liver is equally as important. Both are related to the Wood element. If you remember from my blog earlier in the year, the Liver represents the warrior within us. It gives us the […]
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So here we are at that really weird time of year when it is neither too hot or too cold. In Chinese Medicine this is the time of year associated with the Earth element. It is a transitional time of year when we benefit from the harvest but also take stock for the coming lean […]
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It only seems like yesterday that I was writing about how it feels like the summer is coming. After the last sunny weekend it looks like summer is on it’s way out. It’s actually sunny as I write this, although it has been raining for much of the week and there’s more to come. We […]
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One of the things that I love about being an Acupuncturist and Tui Na practitioner is that I never stop learning. Unlike Western medicine where new research and evidence supersedes the old, in Chinese medicine new information is often simply added to the existing canon. So that means not only studying the classics, but also […]
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Practicing Qi Gong is just as much about how you view the world as it is about simply exercising. It is about understanding our connection to the Earth and the Universe, and also to ones self. As one of the main branches of Chinese Medicine, the practice of Qi Gong is based on the philosophy […]
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So following on from my previous blog where I focussed mainly on running and endurance sport, this week I’m looking at a more holistic approach to exercise, Qi Gong. No Pain No Gain In the West we generally believe that doing lots of physical exercise is good for us and it will help us live […]
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The Yin & Yang of Running When it comes to health, exercise is a lot like food. What I mean is, we know greens are good for us but if that was all we ate, then they would soon become bad for us. And I think that is true of exercise. In the acupuncture clinic […]
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