News & Articles
Blog
Chinese Medicine & the Seasons: Late Summer
In Chinese Medicine the seasons have specific rhythms and are interconnected with our body’s rhythms and cycles. Each season represent parts of the body, and is tied into Nature’s cycle, corresponding to one of Five Elements (Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood). There’s...
Preventative Acupuncture- Maintaining health without waiting for crisis point
Before enough is enough. When is the last time you took time out for yourself? Do you wait until you fall in a heap or have a cold and flu to take time out? Many of us, don’t give ourselves permission to take time out until we really fall in a heap. From...
Chinese Medicine and the Changing of the Seasons: Dietary and Lifestyle Advice for Spring
The weather is warming, the birds are chirping and the sweet smell of blossoming flowers is in the air, yes Spring is here. Spring is a time of birth and new beginnings, the energy and movement is expansive, it’s a time when we wake up from the slumber of winter and...
Traditional Chinese Medicine: Autumn and Emotions
With the days growing shorter and the nights becoming cooler we can start to see and feel that Autumn has indeed arrived. This marks the beginning into the Yin phase of our season where the energy starts to slow down and we tend to find ourselves becoming more...
The balancing act. 7 Tips for a happier, healthier life. By Jessica Breust
In Chinese medicine the body and in turn our health is viewed as a whole. Your feelings, attitude and emotional being is equally as important to your health as the physical, and often affects us physically as well if left out of balance for to long. In...
Chinese Medicine and Winter: Tips and advice to stay healthy this season
As you may be feeling it’s starting to cool off outside, we are now reaching for that extra layer and wanting to keep warm. Yes we are now in the season of winter, the most Yin time of our year. A time where the energy turns inward and we start to turn to more...
Life Through the Eyes of a Chinese Medicine Practitioner…….
Part One... The Introduction When people come to see me they often wonder things like why is she looking at my tongue? What’s going on with my pulses? What’s with all these questions about my dietary habits when I came for sleep problems? And mostly how does this...