About Traditional Acupuncture

Traditional Acupuncture is an holistic medicine, meaning that each patient is treated as a unique individual. So it can treat the person, not just the condition that is presenting for them at that moment in time. Therefore each patients treatment is specific to their needs,both physical and emotional. As a result, many clients return for treatments long after the initial complaint has been treated.

Through the use of ultra fine sterile needles on specific energetic points, acupuncture helps to regulate the vital energy or Qi (pronounced chee) in the body. Thereby helping to restore the body’s natural homeostatic balance.

In Chinese Medicine & Traditional Acupuncture, it is believed that pain and disease occur when the body’s Qi has been hindered. This could affect you on a physical level, but it might leave you feeling susceptible on an emotional level as well.

A fully qualified acupuncturist is trained to understand that physical and emotional issues can often be interlinked, and the practitioner will often detect these changes prior to a disease or illness manifesting itself. Using a variety of diagnostic tools, that include pulse and tongue diagnosis or palpation (stroking or pressing) of the acupuncture channels on the arms or legs. The acupuncturist can utilise these to direct treatment to the correct ares of the body.

Chinese medicine & Traditional Acupuncture has long recognised the connection between our internal state, and the effect that can have on our mental and physical health.

Through the insertion of needles into various points on the body our Qi / energy can begin to flow freely, thereby helping to restore and maintain the body’s equilibrium, leading to an improvement in both physical symptoms and our mental and emotional wellbeing.

Recent MRI scans show that Traditional acupuncture triggers the brain to begin the healing process by calming the central nervous system, regulating hormones and releasing endorphins.

To find out more about Acupuncture you can click on the following link https://acupuncture.org.uk/faqs/

This short video by the British Acupuncture Council explains things clearly