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Please explore my latest posts below…
Transporting Points
I sense the body’s Qi to make its course run true. At the tips of the fingers, toes are wells where it bubbles. I puncture to vent pathogens. Going proximal to where Qi swells at spring points, I pierce for fever. I feel Qi flourish at the stream – lifting leaden...
Warmth for Wellness: Using Heat to Heal in TCM
“Unless the injury is acute and there’s inflammation, apply heat.” This is what I was told on an advanced massage course, and it’s true: most patients, particularly those with muscular skeletal problems, love heat. (Although there are people who feel hot all the time...
Help for headaches: lifestyle tips to aid your acupuncture treatment
Acupuncture & headaches Acupuncture can be an effective treatment for headaches and migraines. It is currently recommended by NICE, and GPs are allowed to recommend a treatment of 10 sessions of acupuncture over 5-8 weeks. It is always interesting for me that...
Acupuncture for pain relief
I was pleased to see that NICE (National Institute for Care and Health Excellence) has recommended that GPs should not prescribe opioids for chronic pain, but instead consider alternatives such as acupuncture. There's a piece in The Telegraph about the issue: Chronic...
Needling away pain: acupuncture for musculoskeletal problems
Pain in the body, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), is the result of Qi or energy not moving. Acupuncture helps the energy to flow again, thus relieving pain in three different ways: Via ‘ashi’ or pain points. These are similar to trigger points used in...
Divine protection: Tibetan amulets
My partner asked for one of my Tibetan amulets the other day. It was the anniversary of his brother's death (he fell of a horse in Tibet) and perhaps my partner felt in need of protection. I have two amulets: Green Tara and Chenrezig. I bought them when I visited...
A drink for sore eyes: chrysanthemum tea
Flower power As the weather starts to heat up, a tea to drink to cool you down is chrysanthemum. I'm not a big herbal tea drinker, but I really like chrysanthemum and don't know why it's not more popular. I mix it with Japanese sencha for a grassy and refreshing...
Pillow Talk
Buckwheat Pillows Last year, I stayed at Austrian hotels twice to do yoga (see my post on my yoga website here). In both hotels, on the bed, were small rustly pillows. When I asked what they were, I was told they contained buckwheat, and Austrians believe they aid...
What’s the tea? Brewing gong fu style
I recently bought a Chinese tea ceremony set (known as Gong Fu) after seeing it on offer on facebook. I’d recently been to Mei Leaf/Acumedic in London (a Chinese medicine supplier and tea shop) and my interest had been piqued.
Scent as medicine: Tibetan agar incense
In Tibet, incense is used as medicine. One of the most famous medicines, also available as incense, is agar. Agar is also known as agarwood, aloeswood, eaglewood; the distillate is oud — the prized ingredient in Arabic perfumes. There are different formulas, and as...
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I am currently practising at Weymouth Acupuncture on Saturdays and The Hewson Clinic, Verwood, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
