How can acupuncture help you?

Many people come to acupuncture for help with specific symptoms or conditions. Others choose acupuncture as a preventative measure to strengthen their constitution and maintain good health and well-being, or because they just feel generally unwell or out of sorts.

Acupuncture is a holistic system of healthcare, treating you as a whole person rather than just focusing on isolated symptoms. By discovering how and why your vital energy (called your Qi) is out of balance and resulting in ill-health, acupuncture can treat the underlying cause which enables your own natural healing response to kick in, restoring balance and therefore good health.

Acupuncture is considered to be beneficial for a wide range of health issues, some of these are listed below. As acupuncture treats the individual however, its potential goes far beyond this list, so please call me or come in to see me for a free 20 minute chat to discuss whether acupuncture would be a suitable treatment for you.

• Anxiety / Depression / Panic attacks
• Asthma / Bronchitis / Cough
• Back ache / sprain
• Constipation / Diarrhoea / IBS
• Hayfever / Sinus problems
• Headaches / Migraine
• Joint pain / Arthritis / Frozen shoulder
• Menstrual problems / PMT
• Skin conditions
• Sleep problems
• Stress
• Tiredness / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (M.E.)