Pulse taking was my favourite part of Chinese medicine to study, the sensitivity of the Chinese medicine pulse taking system is truly astounding! This week I want to demystify why this is, what a Chinese medicine doctor can tell from your pulse, and why it matters.

Often the most surprising part of an initial Chinese medicine consult comes toward the end of the questioning when the practitioner says, “Can I please look at your tongue?” It might seem like a strange thing to ask, but looking at the tongue is one of the most important parts of a Chinese medicine consult, and is one of the most important factors guiding diagnosis and treatment in Chinese medicine.  

Why Chinese medicine tells us that what we need to do is to stop doing

Dampness is a term commonly used in Chinese medicine as a cause of disease. In this blog I wanted to demystify the term and explain what dampness is from a Chinese medicine perspective. I delve into what it is, how it forms, how it causes disease and how we treat it.

IBS can be a very challenging condition, affecting your quality of life. As there is no single treatment regimen in mainstream medicine that can provide relief, many people turn to complementary medicines. This week I’m exploring how Chinese medicine might be able to support you with IBS symptoms and help you find the relief you are looking for.

Anxiety and insomnia can be particularly frustrating conditions, and patients often express to me that they have tried everything. They meditate before bed, restrict phone time, avoid coffee and still they are lying there awake at night. So what is the missing piece? The missing piece is that there is a fundamental imbalance in their system that needs addressing before their body can access deep rest.

The Three Phases of care model helps us to understand how we can invest in our own health in order to get out of the cycle of chasing symptom relief and start maximizing our health. Often we become so accustomed to living with pain that we forget that we can live without it. We terminate treatment before true healing has happened because we feel well enough to keep going. This week I’m asking what if we were not just well enough to keep going, but truly and deeply well.

Postpartum soup to nourish the mother in the postpartum period!

Most of us arrive at burn out because we have missed important signals from our bodies telling us to stop. We are disconnected from our ourselves because habituation and socialisation teaches us to ignore our gut feelings and simply “get on with it”. Healing burnout ultimately is about reconnecting to your body and listening to your gut signals again.

Feeling bloated and heavy as the weather cools down? Warm up with these 5 easy tips to nurture your digestion during Winter.

 As an acupuncturist one of my favourite groups of people to work with are babies and children. This might be surprising because most people tend to think that because children are often afraid of needles, acupuncture is not suitable for children.

Feeling trapped in a monthly battle with painful periods? You’re not alone and Chinese Medicine is here to help.

BBT stands for basal body temperature. It is the most accurate way to track your ovulation. Apps that track your menstruation tell you an estimate of when you will ovulate based on the average menstrual cycle ovulation. However, this isn’t actually the same for everyone!

Yin and Yang are a fundamental philosophical idea that underpins Traditional East Asian medicine and cultures. In Yin Yang theory, every living thing in the world is made up of Yin and Yang.

There is no perfect translation for the word Qi into English, however, commonly accepted translations include energy or life force. It is the animating quality of our universe and a requirement for life.