Anxiety and depression can be treated with acupuncture What is anxiety? Most people experience anxiety at some point in their life. You might experience mild symptoms when facing a challenging or stressful situation. You might also have more severe, long-lasting symptoms that impact your daily life, including: feelings of panic, fear, or worry restlessness […]
TCM and Energetic Food Values What is TCM and energetic food values? In Traditional Chinese Medicine we talk about diet not in the sense of ‘dieting’ to lose weight but from a holistic point of view with food being used as medicine to heal the body. Now this is not in a way where we […]
Over the last four years I have seen how traditional Chinese medicine can impact peoples’ lives with almost miraculous results. I always say that acupuncture helps me to do magic every day but miracles can take a little longer. By this I mean that if you have a chronic issue that you have lived with […]
Acupuncture uses very fine needles to stimulate points linked to meridians which are channels of energy that we all have in our bodies. Sometimes I will use electro acupuncture which is where a set of needles are linked to a small machine via electrodes. A small electric current is then passed through the needles to […]
Surely Pancake Day, Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday has no links to Traditional Chinese Medicine, right? Wrong! This time of year with the emergence of spring is linked to the liver and gallbladder in TCM. It is a time of awakening from winter where we have traditionally eaten warming foods, fatty foods and foods that […]
It’s been a while! but I have been really busy developing my skills not only with therapies but getting to grips with teaching my school classes live online. To be fair for the students that do actually bother to get online and join in the lessons its been good. In fact I would go so […]
It has taken me a while to decide to write this post during Covid-19 lockdown because I fear that if we give too much emphasis on something like this then it becomes very real in our lives. I began by faithfully waiting each day for the bulletin from Boris to hear what developments were coming […]
Sound Healing Therapy in Wigan I have recently become interested in the use of sound healing therapy here in Wigan. I studied a tuning fork therapy course in which I was taught to balance the auras and chakras in the body. So how can these vibrations help to heal the body? Our body is made […]