acupuncture

Ease tension and stress with Acupressure

Treating stress with Acupressure isn’t hard, In this post, Acupuncturist Marie Hopkinson will show you how you can give yourself a 3 minute stress-buster in your work day. Acupressure is simply pressing on acupuncture points to release a similar-like effect to acupuncture. When you feel Qi in the points (Qi is essentially energy pronounced chee) […]

Acupuncture just as good as Placebo?

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?

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 […]

Is there more to my back pain?

In my practice, I see a lot of back pain patients. Acupuncture is something well known to relieve pain, particularly for musculoskeletal pain related lower back pain.(1) Take for instance, lower back pain. Acupuncture, as part of Chinese medicine has its own understanding of the cause of back pain. Back pain can be caused by: 1) […]

Concession Day Acupuncture

Concession Acupuncture – Available Fridays at Metro Health with Marie Hopkinson.  To support all our patients who are going through a hard time financially, pensioners or health care card holders Marie offers $40 acupuncture treatments on Fridays. Call us to see if your eligible and to make an appointment. Clinic is open Fridays, 8am – […]

How does Chinese Medicine view cold and flus?

How does Chinese Medicine view cold and flus? The unique perspective of Chinese medicine shows us a different way of looking at how we get sick. It is because of this unique perspective that Chinese medicine has treatments to offer where other medicines don’t. Firstly in understanding cause of disease, Chinese medicine sees 3 main […]

Winter Flu Busters

There are lots of early-intervention foods that can treat colds and flus in Chinese medicine. THE KEY IS EARLY TREATMENT. Waiting until symptoms have lingered more than a day, it will be difficult to treat with food cures, however if you can catch the symptoms early enough then foods can provide a cheap, effective relief […]

Easy Slow Cooked Osso Bucco – Paleo Tonic

This easy to make recipe is natural, healthy and Paleo and it’s easy – only takes 10 minutes to prepare, you can buy all the ingredients at your local supermarket and it’s extremely healthy according to the ancient wisdom of Chinese Medicine. Overall, this recipie is a tonic which nourishes Blood and tonifies the Spleen […]

Live a better life with Chinese Medicine

Chinese medicine is founded on major prevention and health promoting principals: It’s the practitioners job to keep you healthy, rather than just focus on the health problem you have now Chinese medicine sees more inter-connections in the body than mainstream medicine (biomedicine or western medicine). A practitioner looks for how Chinese medicine follows ancient wisdom […]

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