One of the most irritating ailments which can be brought about with cold weather is catarrh.
Chinese practitioners use acupuncture in different ways to treat a variety of ilnessess.
A qualified practitioner will use their special pins and place them under the layers of skin to find a meridian or energy line. This alternative therapy [...]
Acupuncture and Catarrh
Alternative Therapies the Complimentary Medicine
Research have been carried out in America to find out if there are cancer patients who use complimentary therapies and health remedies as part of their healing treatment have benefited in any way.
A percentage of the people asked confirmed they use herbal or alternative remedies and they feel confident in their choices.
The most popular therapies [...]
Acupuncture the Alternative Therapy
Chinese practitioners use small needles which are placed under a person’s skin tissue to bring about good health in the body.
The needles the practitioner use are to restore balance to the physical body. This is known as Qi.
Everyone has Qi in their body and some of it can be cold and some hot. If the [...]
Tui – Na the Alternative Therapy
Chinese practitioners are known to use different healing methods to enhance a patients well being.
One of the treatments used in both Western and Chinese hostpitals is known as Tui –Na.
A qualified therapist is employed in the hostpitals to use both massage and manipulation to correct any imbalances in a person’s body.
Imbalances will stop the flow [...]
Cold Weather and Catarrh
In the summer catarrh does not appear to be as large a problem as it does in winter. However chronic catarrh is a different issue as it can be unbearable all the year round.
Catarrh is a build up of mucus in the airways of a person’s body. The symptoms are a cough, stuffy nose and [...]
Arthritis the Chronic disease
Arthritis is a chronic disease that can affect anyone. The cause as far as western medicine is concerned is unknown. However the Chinese practitioners believe it is a form of stagnation in the blood that they call Qi (vital energy).
The disease can vary for each person and how much it can hurt each individual. Joints [...]
Yin and Yang can help with the Menopause
The Yin and Yang our body requires to have balance is not in question or noticeable until a mature woman start to have hot flushes. At first they are not too noticeable and then they start to take over the day and continue a little bit longer and longer until unbearable.
The body’s skin feels sticky, [...]
A practitioner talks about Acupuncture and the Western World of Medicine
A lady called Rokeby- Thomas has started to use her skills in acupuncture to help western medical practitioners. She firmly believes that she understands the western medicine ways of healing and western medical practitioners do not understand her way of healing the mind and the body.
The Chinese are well known as the leading practitioners in [...]
Notes on Acupuncture the Chinese art of healing – Part Two
Using the needles in acupuncture, the practitioner, who will have trained for a number of years, will use his knowledge of the physical body and the pressure points to restore balance in the body, which in the west is known as Qi.
There is Qi in everyone’s immune system and it can either be weak or [...]
Notes on Acupuncture, the Chinese Art of healing – Part One
Acupuncture has become an established part of the western world, although the history of the healing technique is still a mystery today.
In our world, acupuncture is an alternative therapy but in the lives of the Chinese people it is their medical textbook and has been practised and passed down through the generations of families starting [...]