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Please explore my latest posts below…
Berry Good
The goji berry tree I planted last year has immediately got to work and is bearing lots of fruit. I picked a handful this morning to eat with my yoghurt. The taste is difficult to describe: they're juicy and sweet, but with a slight bitter/astringent aftertaste that...
Tangerine Dream
I bought a gong fu tea set from Facebook marketplace and started doing tea ceremonies. I bought high quality tea, brewed it several times in a minature clay teapot, then poured it into a tiny ceramic cup. Once of my favourite teas is Chen Pi and pu'er. Chen Pi is...
Is your Buddha empowered?
When I was living in Florence, Italy, I bought a small picture of a Tibetan Buddha in a silver frame from a gift shop. I thought it was just a picture used to sell the frame. It was a depiction of a Buddha with a consort —...
Poppy Power
I found an opium poppy (also known as the breadseed poppy) growing on a bank near my house last year. I took some of the seeds & planted them in my garden. The flowers are so beautiful - but only bloom for a short time. I'm thinking about drying the husks for the...
Wild Garlic
The last of the bluebells & ramsons (wild garlic). I could really smell the ramsons in the wood in Creech. According to Hedgerow Medicine by Julie Bruton-Seal, ramsons are a good blood tonic, improving the circulation. They can also settle the digestive track,...
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...
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I am currently practising at Weymouth Acupuncture on Saturdays and The Hewson Clinic, Verwood, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
