This is a traditional Chinese technique to help recovery following childbirth and to begin to restore the mother’s energy. And the best news of all is that it does not actually involve needles! With the mother warming technique, a stick of a herb called Moxa is used to lightly warm some points on the abdomen… Continue reading →

When I was a student of traditional Chinese medicine, my favourite teacher once remarked that, in her experience of working with couples struggling to conceive, time and again she found a recurring pattern. The women tended to be energetically cold, and the men tended to be energetically hot.

Whilst there have been enormous advances in… Continue reading →

NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), the major commissioning body for healthcare in the UK,  has published findings that medication overuse is one of the most common causes of headaches affecting about one in fifty people.

Women are five times more likely to suffer from these.

Based upon its own research, NICE… Continue reading →

A patient has very kindly produced the following testimonial for me:

“I have just completed a 6 week course of treatment with Mark following a particularly persistent viral infection that affected my joints and muscles.

Mark was extremely diligent in trying to find the underlying causes and the appropriate treatment.

As I had never experienced… Continue reading →

In September, I will be starting at a new clinic in the SE10 area of Greenwich. I am very excited about this new venture, particularly so because I am very familiar with the area, having gone to school nearby in Blackheath.

More details will follow shortly.

I will, of course, continue to work at the… Continue reading →

Olympic champion in 2008 and double bronze medal winner in London 2012, Rebecca Adlington is a new  fan of acupuncture:

“I had acupuncture for the first time last week. I was getting a very sore back near my ribs. It definitely helped to relieve some of the pressure there”.

TV host, Lorraine Kelly is… Continue reading →

I believe things happen for a reason, Mark. A friend of mine is very fond of these words, and at one or two moments of disappointment, this has helped to provide comfort and consolation to the people he cherishes. It is a wonderful idea, implying a great sense of faith in the universe, even at… Continue reading →

Research recently published in the British Journal of General Practice has provided strong evidence that acupuncture can provide a beneficial and cost-effective treatment for NHS patients suffering from chronic, undiagnosable conditions that do not respond to conventional treatments.

A study of 80 people suffering from aches and pains without any clear organic underlying cause found… Continue reading →

I probably practice this simple Qi Gong exercise more frequently than any other. For better or worse, our lives can be fast-paced and stressful, and, as the Chinese say about westerners, we have a tendency to live in our heads. This can cause too much energy to rise up and may lead to insomnia… Continue reading →

In recent years, considerable research has been conducted to investigate, in Western scientific terms, the mechanisms through which acupuncture works. One of the most interesting approaches has looked at the electromagnetic fields of the human body. Numerous studies have found that the Chinese system of channels running through the body correlate with locations of lowered… Continue reading →