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Traditional Chinese Acupuncture

Of all the holistic treatment systems available in Australia, acupuncture is by far the most respected and has achieved widespread acceptance as an effective form of health care, including recognition by the World Health Organisation, listing over 60 disorders as treatable by acupuncture. 

 As a natural form of health care, acupuncture:

-          Provides drug-free treatment

-          Has very few side effects when provided by a qualified practitioner

-          Treats the underlying cause of disease and illness as well as the symptoms

-          Provides a holistic approach to the treatment of disease and illness, linking body, mind and spirit.

-          Assist in the prevention against disease and illness as well as maintenance of general well-being.

Philosophy

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) philosophy involves the understanding

that life force energy (Qi) flows through all of nature including our bodies and it is the foundation for human awareness and consciousness. When there are blockages of Qi flow in our bodies, certain points can be needled to remove these blockages, resolving symptoms, preventing future disease, relieving stress and promoting wellbeing. 

Chinese and Japanese acupuncture

Chinese and Japanese Acupuncture are both rooted in the same classical medical textbooks dating back over 5000 years. The knowledge of Acupuncture was brought to China possibly from India, from China it spread to Japan, Korea and other Asian countries. It reached Japanese culture in 562ad. by a Chinese Buddhist monk. Since that time the Japanese physicians have refined and developed their own unique style of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. The Japanese style focuses more on treating the whole body via interacting with the meridians and acu-points, while the Chinese style focuses more on the treatment of individual acu-points to resolve very specific complaints.

The modern Chinese system of acupuncture changed dramatically after the cultural revolution when it was integrated with western medicine and provided as free healthcare to the large Chinese population. This was great, however, the result of this was a decrease in sensitivity to client needs and a systemization of acu-point prescription for specific conditions, very effective at relieving symptoms but often neglecting to treat the underlying cause of the disease.  

Both styles have their merits and depending on what the individual presents with, both systems can be used with equal effect. The main difference is in the art of needling and the ability to be a caring practitioner without causing any discomfort to the patient.  

Traditional Japanese Acupuncture

Japanese Acupuncture pays particular attention to the observation of your presenting Symptoms, your unique Pulse qualities, Tongue diagnosis, Facial diagnosis, Hara (abdomen) diagnosis, and Pelvic/Spinal alignment. Every person is unique and Japanese Acupuncture provides a beautiful holistic system capable of treating a huge range of problems with excellent results.

Compared to conventional acupuncture, the Japanese style is an extremely gentle form of Acupuncture. Japanese Acupuncture uses only the highest quality and thinnest needles in the world. Very shallow insertion is used (1-2mm!) so you feel very little if any feeling upon insertion. Sometimes the needles aren’t inserted at all! Japanese Acupuncture is gentle and very comfortable. Overall, the treatment is beautifully relaxing, nurturing and rapidly resolving of symptoms.

To complement your treatment Japanese Moxibustion is used, a gentle and powerfully warming form of herbal heat therapy used to release your areas of muscular tension, reduce your specific painful areas, improve your blood circulation, strengthen your core energy and improve your pelvic and spinal alignment.

Moxibustion is a wonderful tool especially to warm up your ‘cold’ areas (joint pain, CFS, diarrhoea, cramping pain, period pain, nausea, lower back pain etc…) and even to release your ‘hot’ areas (headaches, menopausal hot flushes, anger, irritability, stress, insomnia, liver disease etc….)  

Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion work in conjunction helping to correct imbalances in the movement of your Qi (vital energy), blood and body fluids throughout your body. When your Qi is circulating well, your body, mind and spirit function as ONE unity, your stress dissolves, your muscles relax and your overall quality of life is enhanced tremendously.