Last November at an acupuncture conference, I was invited be part of a team of volunteer acupuncturists going to Myanmar in January. An opportunity which was difficult to refuse, so I am off from 9th January 2015 for a month! Our team of acupuncturists will be providing treatments to local people and training to localContinue reading “Charlotte is off to Myanmar”
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Acupuncture Christmas Gift Vouchers: A gift of revitalisation and well-being
Stuck thinking about what present to get your friends and loved ones at Christmas? Bored of what the shops have to offer? How about a gift that will help someone feel relaxed and revitalised after all the busyness of Christmas? Or helping someone you know start the New Year on the road to better health?Continue reading “Acupuncture Christmas Gift Vouchers: A gift of revitalisation and well-being”
UK multibed acupuncture and the wonderful ACMAC
Last month we were lucky to spend a weekend with other multi-bed acupuncturists like ourselves at the ACMAC conference. ACMAC (http://acmac.net/acu/) is a fantastic organisation that is both raising public awareness of this way of receiving acupuncture, as well as supporting all of us who are out there running affordable clinics. Multibed acupuncture is stillContinue reading “UK multibed acupuncture and the wonderful ACMAC”
Painful Periods? They don’t have to be…
Painful periods affect many women and for some they can be truly debilitating, with cramps so severe they can do nothing but curl up on the sofa in pain. For some people it is not unusual for 1-3 days a month to be a write-off, unable to work or function at all. Too often aContinue reading “Painful Periods? They don’t have to be…”
Focus on diet- nourishing the Blood
Blood plays an important role in our mental and physical well-being in Chinese medicine. The Shen (our spirit and consciousness) is believed to be anchored in the Blood so when the Blood is depleted we can experience feelings of disconnection; we might become easily startled, find we are not able to bring our focus firmlyContinue reading “Focus on diet- nourishing the Blood”
Acupuncture for IBS
Over 20% of the UK population suffers with ‘unexplained’ discomfort and irregularity in bowel habit. The term Irritable Bowel Syndrome is used to describe the experience of symptoms such as pain or discomfort in the abdomen, bloating, swelling, bouts of diarrhoea and/or constipation and feeling sick. It is a chronic, re-occurring and often debilitating conditionContinue reading “Acupuncture for IBS”
Anxiety and Acupuncture
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week (12-18 May 2014) with the theme of Anxiety, so we’d like to talk about anxiety and how acupuncture can help. What is anxiety? Anxiety is a feeling of fear, worry, and uneasiness. Normal anxiety, stimulated by the sympathetic nervous system, has its root in fear and serves an important survivalContinue reading “Anxiety and Acupuncture”
Acupuncture and Insomnia
Sleep is important, and yet so many of us struggle to get enough. It is thought that as many of 1 in 3 of us experience insomnia, a condition of unsatisfactory sleep, whether that be due to difficulty falling asleep, waking early or through the night, or shallow restless sleep. We need sleep for itsContinue reading “Acupuncture and Insomnia”
Happy Chinese New Year: Year of the Wood Horse
So what does Chinese tradition say that this means for us? The Wood Horse is said to be an auspicious year with a strong convergence of yang energy -the charismatic Horse and the Wood element. This is a big shift from the last 2 years of Water energy. In five element theory Water is theContinue reading “Happy Chinese New Year: Year of the Wood Horse”
Christmas newsletter
Merry Christmas from The Peoples Acupuncture Project. Our Christmas newsletter containing news and tips for the festive season is now available here: Peoples Acupuncture Christmas Newsletter Peoples Acupuncture Project, Affordable Acupuncture in Exeter
Affordable Acupuncture in Exeter 