Please select from the drop down menu below on the various TCM therapies that we provide:

Acupuncture

Originating in China over 3,000 years ago, acupuncture is the art of inserting fine needles at specific pressure points for varying periods of time along the body’s meridians to stimulate, disperse and regulate the flow of "Qi."

The balance of these energies in the human body affects health and disease. To determine acupuncture points, a pulse and tongue diagnosis is required, along with observation and questioning of the patient.

Acupuncture is used to relieve symptoms, especially pain relief, as well as to promote general health and well-being. Although moxibustion and cupping are often seen as separate treatments from acupuncture they are frequently used together.

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Chinese Herbal Medicine

Chinese Herbal Medicine has developed over the last 3000 years into a unique and highly sophisticated system for understanding health and disease. Having a different perspective to western medicine, it can often cast light on conditions which modern medicine has difficulty treating.

Chinese herbs consist of natural dried leaves, bark, roots and flowers which possess different characteristics and actions on the body. Chinese herbal medicines come in different forms, decoctions, powders, pills, ointments and even creams.

Chinese herbs always work together to correct internal imbalances within your body and activate the body’s self-healing processes. Chinese Herbal Medicine uses exactly the same diagnostic techniques as Acupuncture. It can be used as an adjunct or instead of Acupuncture.

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Cupping

Cupping involves the suction of a glass cups, performed by creating a vacuum with a flame before being placed on the body. During a Cupping treatment, the skin's pores are opened which helps to stimulate the flow of Blood, adjust the flow of Qi and remove blockages within the meridians. The warming and dispersing actions of cupping result in a profoundly increased local blood supply to muscles and skin which provides nourishment to the local area and releases tension particularly in areas of muscle rigidity. Cupping brings fresh blood to the area, so it tends to improve circulation. It also helps open up the chest and benefit the lungs and can even benefit menstrual problems and digestive problems, too. Most commonly, it’s used for aches and pains of various types as well as respiratory problems such as cough and wheezing.

The action of cupping help remove toxins from local areas, re-supplies important nutrients to the cells, draw out inflammation, relieve pain and reduce the appearance of cellulite. Cupping mobilizes and stretches soft tissue by pulling it away from underlying structures.

Cupping also influences the body's peripheral nervous system by exerting calming and sedative effects, allowing patients with stress-related conditions in particular to benefit. Through effects on the nervous system, Cupping has additional effects over the digestive function by regulating peristaltic movement and the secretion of digestive fluids

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Moxibustion

Moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine technique that involves the burning of mugwort (the herb Artemisia) over acupuncture points. The purpose of moxibustion is to stimulate the flow of Qi and Blood, remove cold from the body, and maintain general health.

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Guasha

Guasha is a healing technique used by practitioners of TCM, but little known in the West. It involves palpation and cutaneous stimulation where the skin is pressured, in strokes, by a round-edged jade bar, that results in the appearance of small red petechiae called ‘sha’ that will fade in 2 to 3 days.

Raising Sha removes blood stagnation, promoting normal circulation and metabolic processes. The patient experiences immediate relief from pain, stiffness, fever, chill, cough, nausea, and so on. Gua Sha is valuable in the prevention and treatment of acute infectious illness, upper respiratory and digestive problems, and many other acute or chronic disorders

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