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Improve your training with Sports Acupuncture

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How can Chinese medicine be used to improve your training? Sports acupuncture (and associated treatments like cupping) is often sought out by athletes because it’s not adding anything into your body. While there’s nothing illegal about Chinese herbs used in Australia, it is a legitimate concern for high level and competitive athletes using substances that […]

Wind

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Considered one of the 6 Pathogens in Chinese Medicine, wind can cause disharmony in our body. No, in case you were wondering, we are not talking about the flatulence type of wind! Much of Chinese medicine can be understood from observation, particularly observing our body and the environment. While moderate wind in the environment is tolerable, […]

Gynaecology & Chinese medicine

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Chinese Medicine has been treating women’s health problems (Gynaecology) for centuries. Whether it be a slight or major departing from normal functioning, Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture treatments are designed to correct the course of normal function. Common symptoms and conditions that can be treated include: Period pain (dysmenorrhoea), endometriosis, abnormal uterine bleeding, menopausal discomforts and […]

Sciatica

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Sciatica is one of the most common pain’s an acupuncturist typically sees. There are lots of variations of treatments that can be used by an Acupuncturist, and even Chinese herbs are available as a treatment option. Cupping, Moxibustion and Electro acupuncture are common treatments for sciatic pain, but before we go into these treatments, let’s […]

5 Element Personality Test

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The Wu Xing, means 5 phases or 5 elements, and it’s a big part of Chinese Medicine. One style of Chinese medicine purports that people have a particular element they gravitate towards. There is an online study that can be taken to help you discover which elements best describe you.. At the end of the […]

Acupuncture just as good as Placebo?

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This is a comment by Acupuncturist, Marie Hopkinson on Today’s news reporting on a recent study for Acupuncture in the treatment of hot flushes. Reported by ABC “Real and fake acupuncture both ease the symptoms of menopausal hot flushes: study” and even in a very limited “article” in the West Australian today: The current published report […]

Dry Needling & Acupuncture … what’s the difference?

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Dry Needling & Acupuncture, what’s the difference? This is a great question that I’m often asked, especially when I present to large groups, it inevitably comes up. The practice of dry needling is really just another acupuncture needle technique, based on a predominantly musculo-skeletal or biomedial approach. This means it’s a way of doing needling […]

Common problems

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What conditions can be treated with Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine) ? Most patients initially seek help because of a particular health problems. These can be diagnosed diseases / syndromes or a symptom like a “cough”. At Metro Health the kind of Chinese medicine we practice is essentially about mobilising your own bodies […]

Podcast: Does Acupuncture hurt?

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Does Acupuncture Hurt? Marie discusses this common question: What is it like to have acupuncture? Will sticking needles into me be painful? This is a great question, and a very simple explanation of how acupuncture needles work will help you feel more at ease if it’s your first time to consider seeing an Acupuncturist. Answering […]

Beat the Heat

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If you live in Australia, no doubt you know it’s summer. Where I am in Perth, it’s been up to 44 degrees already! Did you know that the weather is significant in the cause of disease according to Chinese medicine? Heat is one of “6 Pathogens”, that can invade the body and cause disharmonies. Heat […]