How can Acupuncture help you?

With Acupuncture we are treating you as a whole person, not just the symptoms you may be experiencing. In Chinese Medicine we are concerned with more than just the resolution of symptoms alone. We aim to bring about a feeling of ‘well-being’ the definition of which is ‘a state of being well, healthy and contented’ - so much more than just the absence of disease. When patients come for a particular condition it is very common for the first response to treatment to be ‘I just feel better in myself’ and it is from then the symptoms begin to resolve. It is often the case that patients feel an increase in energy, feel more relaxed in themselves and less reactive to stress or difficult situations.

For these reasons acupuncture is also used as a preventative treatment. Sometimes we may feel ‘off-centre’ or ‘just not quite right’ but have no western label or condition to label it with. Chinese Medicine recognises these more subtle signs as warnings that things are getting out of balance. With Acupuncture balance in the body can be restored before more concrete symptoms manifest and illness occurs.