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Damp :The Most Common Chinese Medicine Diagnosis and How to Treat It
What is Damp and Do I Have It? If I was as savvy as the budget airlines I would have added an additional pound to every treatment that...
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Jul 8, 20244 min read
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The Danger To Our Health By Not Expressing Our Emotions
Why Shouldn't I Cry In Public? Let’s set the scene with an anecdote. I broke up with someone I really loved. It was particularly hard...
cbeckinsale9
Oct 28, 20224 min read
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What Chinese Medicine has to Offer for Long Covid Patients. How collaboration between East and West
LONG COVID EXPERIENCE AS A PRACTITIONER One of my bucket list items is to integrate Eastern and Western medicine so we can streamline...
cbeckinsale9
Jul 8, 20213 min read
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'Don't Stop Movin' To the Lockdown Beat': Why Am I feeling Isolation Lethargy?
It’s a rare opportunity that you can start a health blog quoting an ‘S Club 7’ song, but there you are these are unforeseen times. Before...
cbeckinsale9
Apr 16, 20204 min read
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The Chinese Are Ahead of the Curve Fighting Covid 19- How to use Acupressure at Home
The Most Recent Studies Coming Out of China As you all know I have a sizeable soft spot for the Chinese and so far it seems their...
cbeckinsale9
Mar 26, 20204 min read
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Acupuncture Treatment in Chinese Hospitals– A Successful Numbers Game
Most blogs written by Western acupuncturists who have been on study trips mention the ‘scale of things’ in China and I am no different. ...
cbeckinsale9
Feb 28, 20204 min read
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How To Achieve Your Goals in 2020 'The Year of Plenty'
Firstly the credit for 2020 'The Year of Plenty' lies to my clever friend Claudia. Secondly, I’m amazed this blog has been done in time...
cbeckinsale9
Dec 11, 20194 min read
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Go With Your Gut- Treating Digestive Disorders with Acupuncture
People experiencing digestive disorders and general discomfort around food often seek acupuncture as an alternative to constantly...
cbeckinsale9
Oct 31, 20192 min read
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‘I’m Too Busy to deal with my Anxiety’ and ‘I feel Too Sad to Deal with my Depression’:
As an acupuncturist, I treat a variety of things but at least 40 % of my patients come for assistance with anxiety and depression or...
cbeckinsale9
Oct 1, 20194 min read
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The Perfect Period is not a Myth: The Chinese Believe No Pain IS A Gain
Sick of period symptoms? How’s things in the lady department? Do you dread your period every month? Do you experience any of these common...
cbeckinsale9
Jun 11, 20193 min read
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Fighting Colds and Flu with Acupuncture
Cold and Flus = January Blues Happy New Year. Congratulations on making it through the festive period in one piece. The season brings...
cbeckinsale9
Jan 10, 20194 min read
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Get Your Sleep On: How Acupuncture Can Improve your ZZZZ's
I have noticed in the last 18 months (​ ​especially in the functional medicine camps) that sleep has become seriously cool again. Every...
cbeckinsale9
Sep 13, 20182 min read
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Prevention is Better Than Cure
Last year watching a Ted talk I discovered an interesting doctor who I dubbed the 'Obama of Medicine'. Ranjan Chatterjee is forward...
cbeckinsale9
Feb 2, 20182 min read
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Placebo or not a Placebo? That is the question.
Recently there was an excellent article in the Guardian about further scientific evidence that acupuncture works. It also had a much...
cbeckinsale9
Oct 29, 20172 min read
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