Acupuncture Links and Useful Contacts

Acupuncture Links and useful contacts for all the stuff this site can’t include or it would get too big to manage!

Organisations

• British Acupuncture Council
• Confucius Institute for Scotland
• Scottish China Association

Acupuncture Links to Practitioners

Edinburgh and South-East Scotland area acupuncturists who are members of the British Acupuncture Council

Acupuncture Courses for Professionals

The British Acupuncture Accreditation Board, (BAAB) an independent body, is supported by the British Acupuncture Council. 

To qualify as an acupuncturist and be listed as a member of the British Acupucuncture Council you now need a degree. This lasts three years and includes practical, supervised clinical work as well as lots of theory. The BAAB accredits the following colleges, all of which are taking on new students:

Fully Accredited:

• College of Integrated Chinese Medicine  Reading    
• College of Naturopatic Medicine London

 

 

• City College of Acupuncture London 
• International College of Oriental Medicine UK  East Grinstead                    
• London Southbank University London 
• Northern College of Acupuncture York  
• University of Westminster London
• The Acupuncture Academy Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Talks on Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture

Introductory talks

Informative and amusing talks by someone with over 35 years experience as practitioner, speaker, author and lecturer, currently Regional Coordinator for the British Acupuncture Council in Edinburgh and South-East Scotland.

Learning  the Chinese language in Scotland

Learning Chinese is not easy! Chinese is based on images and the intonation is completely different to that of European languages.

Also, there are two main languages, (Cantonese and Mandarin) which sound completely different to the extent that if you speak one you probably can’t understand the other, but they both use the same written texts. The script is also quite different with thousands of ‘letters’ (although they aren’t letters in the sense of the 26 letters of the European alphabet).

However, the Chinese are very friendly!

University Degree courses in the Chinese language:

• Edinburgh University
• Glasgow University (post-grad MSc)

Learning Chinese for ordinary mortals (non-University):

• Edinburgh Community School
• Meetup in Edinburgh
• Glasgow Chinese School
• Dundee evening classes

Non-Acupuncture but Useful sites

• https://holistichealthpath.com One man’s journey – your guide!
• http://www.mercola.com Well-known American site for ‘alternative’ health insights.
• https://www.wddty.co.uk Well-known British site for ‘alternative’ health insights.

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