Tag Archives: Acupuncture

Factsheet: Acupuncture for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Background information about acupuncture Traditional Acupuncture is a safe and effective system of medicine that originated in China thousands of years ago and still forms an important part of mainstream healthcare there today. In Traditional Acupuncture we view the human body in a holistic way. We focus on the health of the person as aContinue reading “Factsheet: Acupuncture for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)”

Factsheet: Acupuncture for Anxiety

Background information about acupuncture Traditional Acupuncture is a safe and effective system of medicine that originated in China thousands of years ago and still forms an important part of mainstream healthcare there today. In Traditional Acupuncture we view the human body in a holistic way. We focus on the health of the person as aContinue reading “Factsheet: Acupuncture for Anxiety”

Acupuncture treatment for Hayfever

It seems like spring is finally here! But while many people are looking forward to enjoying the summer ahead, for 20% of our population it not such an enjoyable season. For those that suffer with hay fever, or seasonal rhinitis,  it can be a miserable time of year. But sufferers should know that this need notContinue reading “Acupuncture treatment for Hayfever”

Acupuncture Awareness Week: Acupuncture for Sports Injuries

7-13 March is Acupuncture Awareness Week! Our focus this year is on how acupuncture can help sports injuries. Acupuncture is a fantastic treatment for muscular-skeletal pain and injuries sustained from sport (or any other reason!). We see all kinds of injuries in clinic, they are some of the most common things we treat, and they respond really successfully to treatment.Continue reading “Acupuncture Awareness Week: Acupuncture for Sports Injuries”

Now is the time to start Hayfever treatment

Spring is here! But while many people are looking forward to enjoying the summer ahead, for 20% of our population it not such an enjoyable season. For those that suffer with hay fever, or seasonal rhinitis,  it can be a miserable time of year. But sufferers should know that this need not be the case. Acupuncture canContinue reading “Now is the time to start Hayfever treatment”

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”

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”