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From the British Acupuncture Council Traditional acupuncture is an holistic health care system that regards pain and illness, whether physical or mental, to be a sign that the body is out of balance. Because traditional acupuncture considers every bodily function to be connected and interdependent, it recognizes the role emotions...
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Mark Perren-Jones If you suffer from asthma and haven’t tried acupuncture I recommend that you do. Here’s a story of a client of mine who has had wonderful results. Even after doing acupuncture for many years I still have days where it amazes me. Some clients even ask me if the needles...
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Mark Perren-Jones In the practice of acupuncture, there is no question that some of the most powerful points on the body are the “alarm” points. These points are diagnostic, therapeutic, and have been used for centuries as first-choice points for treating a multitude of health conditions. There are fourteen meridians in the...
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Type-2 diabetes (adult-onset or non-insulin-dependent diabetes) is a common metabolic disorder in which the body is unable to regulate the amount of glucose in the blood. The condition affects nearly 1.5 million people in the UK (Diabetes UK, 2004), and may be undiagnosed in as many as a million more....
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Everyone knows exercise is good for you, but taking part in fitness activities or sports can lead to injury. Sports injuries can be caused by accidents, lack of fitness, poor training practices, improper gear or failure to warm up. Sports injuries fall into two general types. Acute traumatic injuries occur suddenly...
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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) describes a collection of symptoms, commonly including chronic abdominal pain, bloating, flatulence and altered bowel habits. It is a functional disorder of the intestines, occurring in the absence of visible structural abnormality. IBS affects up to 22% of people in the UK and is the most...
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The Acupuncture Research Resource Centre (ARRC) provides a specialist resource for acupuncture research. ARRC was set up by the BAcC in 1994 and is currently hosted by the Centre for Complementary Healthcare and Integrated Medicine (CCHIM) at Thames Valley University. Traditional acupuncture’s greatest strength is that it treats each patient...
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Traditional acupuncture is a branch of traditional Chinese medicine – a tried and tested healthcare system that has been practiced for thousands of years in China and the Far East. It has been developed, tested, researched and refined over centuries to give us a complex and detailed understanding of the...
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The British Acupuncture Council, the UK’s largest professional body for the practice of acupuncture, fully supports NICE’s (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) decision that acupuncture be made available on the NHS (National Health Service) for chronic lower back pain. Traditional acupuncture has been used for over 2,000 years to alleviate...
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Since ancient times, the Chinese have written about healing therapies to the hands. I am sure you have all seen the Chinese Shou-xing balls. This idea was created five hundred years ago during the Ming Dynasty, Shou-xing means Balls of Eternal Health. The Emperor’s physician had advised him that in order to treat his...
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