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Help your own inner healing forces with Acupuncture and Naturopathy.
Life is full of joy and wonder, but we all face challenges and changes in our lives which may throw us out of balance. Trust and confidence to find our way through these challenges will help us to grow and develop.
SERVICES
As a practitioner in Naturopathy and Acupuncture my aim is to help and support the inner resources and strengths of each individual to encourage natural healing. Our health is easily compromised by the many demands of our lives. Naturopathy and Acupuncture can offer considerable help in coping with these demands and helps to heal and stay healthy long term.
Therapies and Services offered:
- Acupuncture (body, ear & facial acupuncture)
- Acupressure
- Tuina (Chinese Massage)
- Nutritional advice
- Life-Style advice, incl. breathing therapy and stress management
- Advice on Western Herbal remedies
- Advice on natural remedies (including baths and poultices)
- Bach flower remedies
- Homeopathy and tissue salts
- Cupping therapy and moxibustion
I practise at Minster House, 272-274 Vauxhall Bridge Road, 2 minutes walk from Victoria Station.
About Acupuncture
Acupuncture is based on the theory that working on points on the surface of the body will affect what goes on inside the body.
This effect is achieved through a meridian or channel system which unifies all the parts of the body. In Chinese Meridian theory, these channels are unseen but are thought to embody a kind of information network. The insertion of very fine needles into points along the meridians is used in acupuncture to rebalance bodily disharmony.
Chinese Medicine is viewed in the West on the one hand as something rather primitive and magical on the other hand it is described to be more true as it is more ancient, more spiritual and more holistic than Western medicine. Both attitudes mystify the subject – one by uncritically undervaluing it, the other by setting it on a pedestal.
Chinese medicine is a coherent and independent system of thought and practices that has been developed over two millennia. Based on ancient texts, it is the result of a continuous process of critical thinking as well as extensive clinical observation and testing.
To Western Medicine (or biomedicine) understanding an illness means uncovering a distinct entity that is separate from the patient’s being. To Chinese Medicine understanding means perceiving the relationships among all the patient’s signs and symptoms in the context of his or her life. The Chinese system is not less logical than the Western, just less analytical.
(From Ted J Kaptchuk: Chinese Medicine, "The web that has no weaver")
Acupuncture can thus often give additional help to any other naturopathic approach and may speed up the progression to natural health.
About Cupping and Moxibustion
I also use cupping therapy where appropriate. The therapy involves glass cups being applied to the body with an induced vacuum which can give the sensation of deep tissue massage. The burning of dried herb, also called moxibustion near the skin can re-inforce the application of acupuncture.
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have published a consensus statement on the efficacy of acupuncture in which they state the following:
Acupuncture as a therapeutic intervention is widely practiced in the United States. [ ] Promising results have emerged, for example, efficacy of acupuncture in adult post-operative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in postoperative dental pain. There are other situations such as addiction, stroke rehabilitation, headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, osteoarthritis, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma for which acupuncture may be useful as an adjunct treatment or an acceptable alternative or be included in a comprehensive management program. Further research is likely to uncover additional areas where acupuncture interventions will be useful. (Acupuncture. NIH Consens Statement Online 1997; 15(5):1-34)
About Tuina
Tuina is a therapeutic massage which involves the use of meridians and acupuncture points as described in Chinese Medicine. A full case history informs a specific application for each client. The massage is performed with the client fully clothed, but it is recommended to wear loose fitting clothing when coming for a session. A session may include acupuncture treatment or can just be massage and acupressure depending on the needs and preferences of the client.
The massage can help with a variety of musculoskeltal problems such as back and neck pain, joint pains and sciatica. It can alleviate headaches and also helps with digestive problems or fatigue.
About Naturopathy
Naturopathy or natural medical therapy harnesses nature’s healing powers to bring about wellbeing. A Naturopathic consultation thus involves looking at the client’s lifestyle, diet, exercise, breathing and many other aspects we usually take for granted. Therapeutic care may include herbal remedies, baths, water therapies, poultices, homeopathic remedies and dietary changes. Together they are designed to move imbalances (and dis-ease) patterns towards healing and wellbeing.
Naturopathic principles:
- Prevention is preferable to Cure
- The underlying cause of the dis-ease is identified
- The whole person is treated - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually
- The person is treated, rather than the disease
- The individual is unique; each person responds in a different way
- Ill health is primarily a result of the internal disorder of the body.
- External influences of the environment or “disease causing agents” are secondary factors.
- A Naturopath is an educator/teacher, empowering the patient to take responsibility for his/her own health
Professor René Dubois, Discoverer of the first commercially available antibiotic (1939) and initiator of the first Earth Summit of the United Nations (1972) stated:
"I have always felt that the only trouble with scientific medicine is that it is not scientific enough. Modern medicine wil become really scientific only when physicians and their patients have learned to manage the forces of the body and the mind that operate via 'vis medicatrix naturae' - the healing power of nature."
If you would like to find out whether the therapies and services I offer are suitable for you,
or if you have any questions about supporting natural healing with naturopathy,
acupuncture and Chinese Massage (Tuina), feel free to contact me via Email:
info@help2helpyourself.co.uk. or call me on 077 1998 7933
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Dip Ac ND MBAcC Dip Pharm PhD
Service Categories
Acupuncture, Chinese Massage, Cupping, Naturopaths, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
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