British Acupuncture Council member, Karin Gillerman, has carried out a trial at the Homerton hospital in London on the effectiveness of acupuncture together with IVF. The data collected showed a conception rate of 46% in the acupuncture group and only 22% in the non-acupuncture group.

She funded the costs of treatment for this study herself… Continue reading →

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”

Zhuang Zhou

Zhunag Zhou was a Chinese philosopher of the Warring States period in the fourth century

Acupuncture and menopausal hot flushes is an area of interest to many clinicians. A US trial has found that acupuncture treatment can reduce the hot flushes associated with menopause. The frequency of hot flushes after six months was reduced by 37% in a group of patients having acupuncture (up to a maximum of twenty treatment… Continue reading →

Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory intestinal disease. Regions of the ileum (the distal part of the small intestine from which food passes into the caecum part of the large intestine) become inflamed and oedematous.

The condition usually starts quite suddenly in teens or in young adults. Presenting symptoms are likely to be lower… Continue reading →

Here are the new years opening times. Apologies for failing to provide an update of my availability over the Christmas period. A couple of people have pointed this out to me. Here is my altered availability for the new year period.

Saturday 31 Dec: not working

Sunday 1 January: Greenwich Natural Health Clinic closed

Monday… Continue reading →

Professor Muir Gray, former NHS Head of Knowledge, has described an ‘epidemic’ of over-prescription of pharmaceutical drugs. In a BBC television programme that aired in two parts back in October, Dr Chris van Tulleken explored this issue. The show was called ‘The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs’.

One of the things we learnt from this… Continue reading →

Following on from my previous piece about the new study being undertaken to explore whether moxa treatment can help to reduce the potentially dangerous side-effects of chemotherapy, here is a short exploration of how moxibustion works.

The mechanisms of moxa treatment have not been fully established in western medical terms. One theory generally held is… Continue reading →

I read recently about a new trial to assess whether self-administered moxa on ST36 can reduce chemotherapy-induced pancytopenia, specifically neutropenia, anaemia, and thrombocytopenia, thus enabling patients to complete courses of chemotherapy without delays or dose reduction.

The aim of the researchers is to recruit 25 breast, colorectal, or gynaecological cancer patients to perform this simple… Continue reading →

When we talk about the human microbiome, we are referring to the healthy gut bacteria that hopefully are thriving within us to support our digestive and immune systems and carrying out tasks that our own metabolism cannot do on its own.

There is plenty of contemporary research that suggests that dysbiosis, or imbalance, of the… Continue reading →