Learn more about your symptoms through my book selection:
Oketsu and TCM – Chinese medicine
Oketsu, from Japanese acupuncture, describes problems from portal vein congestion and blood stagnation that need urgent treatment.
Lockdown, Yin and Yang Covid Rules
Trapped in static yin lockdown? How to reduce yin and use yang to alleviate misery! It’s your choice and your opportunity!
High Blood Pressure – Hypertension
High blood pressure – hypertension: understand it with yin and yang to get the right treatment. Excess yang or deficient yin?
Spleen 3 – Taibai – Supreme White
As source point Spleen 3 strengthens your Spleen so enhances your digestion, energy and Blood and helps to clear or disperse Damp.
Gallbladder 34 – Yanglingquan – Yang Mound Spring
Gallbladder 34, yanglingquan clears Damp-Heat and soothes and steadies the tendons. Great for many kinds of arthritis and aching wandering pains.
Spleen 9 – Yinlingquan – Yin Mound Spring
Spleen 9, yinlingquan, is a major point for conditions caused by Damp, so helps urinary problems, ascites, oedema and general swelling.
Appointment precautions during Covid-19
The appointment precautions we are taking during Covid 19. Please read and follow this advice for your and others’ safety.
Stomach 36 Zusanli: Leg Three Miles
Stomach 36 strengthens Spleen and regulates normal function of Stomach energy, Qi and Blood. Frequently used, with good reason.
Curcumin Benefits: How to Take Turmeric and Ginger
Turmeric/curcumin and ginger can change your health for good or ill! Make sure it’s for good!
Chinese Medicine Books
Chinese medicine books are what you need to support studying acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Also for Tuina, Guasha and 5 Elements.
Qi Deficiency: how to overcome tiredness
Qi deficiency: what causes this and how to overcome it? What does TCM – Chinese medicine – say, and what about tiredness after eating?
Element Acupuncture Points
Element points lie between elbow and finger-tip or knee and toe-tip. They hugely enhance other acupuncture strategies but some acupuncturists ignore them!
5 Elements acupuncture: The Five phases
5 elements acupuncture is enjoying a resurgence in popularity, even spreading back to China from Europe. It can make for powerful treatment..
Acupuncture Meridians List
Want a list of the acupuncture meridians (channels) with links to the individual meridians themselves? This is it!
Large Intestine Channel: Arm Bright Yang
The Large Intestine Channel may seem unimportant! But it has several of the most-frequently used points, and is vital for many head problems.
Acupuncture Point Evidence
What acupuncture point evidence is there? Lots! And growing! Hard to refute, though sceptics will always exist. But even WHO is convinced.
Kidney Yang Foods: Foods that Build Yang Energy
Kidney yang foods sound good don’t they? Giving you oomph, mojo, get-up-and-go! But just like a baby, it starts with Mum – yin energy!
Blood-Clearing Foods: Help Improve your Blood Quality
Blood-clearing foods help remove heating and toxic matter from your blood. They help ‘detox’ the drawbacks of blood-building foods.
Damp Foods: Foods That Cause and Clear Damp
Damp foods are foods that often make Damp problems worse in your body. Avoiding them will help most chronic Damp conditions.
Food for Covid 19
What’s the best food for covid 19 problems if you’re on anti-inflammatory medicine for immune type problems but suspect you have the virus?
Meat – A Blood-Building Food
No food is all bad, and certainly not meat. But it pays to know what’s good and what’s not about it. Knowing that, you can take precautions against damage.
Bitter Taste Food helps steady your Fire Energy
The bitter taste alerts us to poison, but in food, we need some of it to balance our heart and fire energies. It also keeps us regular!
Qi Stagnation Reviews
People who’ve read my book are kindly writing what they think and you can read their opinions at Qi Stagnation Reviews.
Transport Points – 5 element points used differently
All 12 primary acupuncture channels have these Five Transport points. Same as the Five Element points, but seen through a different prism.
Yuck Phlegm Reviews
This page lists Yuck Phlegm reviews that I’ve received or found on the net. It won’t have them all because I’m too busy to search for them. Hope it helps you decide whether to buy the book.
Patient Data Form
What is our Patient Data Protection Policy? Here is the form we ask patients to sign and there is a link to our FULL data protection policy on the page.
Constipation and bowel problems
Constipation? How does Chinese medicine explain and treat this? How can you work out what to do about it?
Lungs Function: How Qi Keeps you Going
Everyone knows how their lungs function. You just breathe, and that’s it! Well, in Chinese medicine, that’s hardly even the start of it.
Examples of Yin Excess
Here are some examples of Yin Excess. As you’ll see, they are quite common. If you yourself have examples, you can add them at the bottom of the page.
Bladder Damp Heat and The NEED to Pee
Bladder Damp-Heat is all too common. You’ll see why when you read about who gets it. Burning pain – difficulty urinating and dark pee.
Acupuncture Channels: Do they Exist?
Do Acupuncture Channels (meridians) Exist? What Are They? Why Trust 2500 year old ideas? Why Do Acupuncturists Rely on Them? Who Invented Them?
Damp Heat in the Large Intestine
Damp-Heat in the Large Intestine: doesn’t exactly inspire confidence does it?! But you’ll know someone who has this, even if they keep quiet about it.
TCM Theory
With TCM Theory, the more you study the more everything becomes inter-connected. That’s both a strength and a weakness!
Cough including from Corona Virus
Cough? Yes Chinese medicine has encountered it, plus asthma, TB, flu, corona virus cough and the rest. Read here how they diagnose it.
Jing-Well points for Trauma or Over-Excitement
Jing-Well points are all at the finger or toetips, and are used mostly in extreme conditions of pain, excitement or heat.
Sexual Impotence – What to Do about it!
This page on sexual impotence treatment aims to show you how Chinese medicine and acupuncture might both explain and treat your problem.
Kidney 8: Jiaoxin – Exchange Belief
Kidney 8, Jiaoxin, is the eighth point on the Kidney acupuncture channel, and an important point on the Yin Xiao Mai ‘extraordinary’ vessel.
Luo-connecting or Junction points
Luo-connecting points, also known as ‘junction’ points, can be used in all sorts of ways: a really important type of point.
Homeopathy Research – Research on Homoeopathy
There’s LOTS of homeopathy research if you care to look for it. It appears in journals worldwide, covering research on humans, animals, plant and in vitro!
Sore Throat – Pharyngitis
Ever had a sore throat? I used to get them all the time as a child, but nowadays, not so often. That’s not necessarily so good!
Blood Building Foods for Stable Personality
Blood building foods deserve good digestion and to be carefully
chosen. Learn what helps you acquire this stable base for your personality.
Hangover and the morning after
Hangover? Expecting it or got it? Here’s what to do, or not! The Chinese get this too, and Chinese medicine has analysed how it works.
Jonathan Talks
This page, ‘Jonathan Talks’, tells you when, where and about what Jonathan is giving talks.
Yin Deficiency Reviews: What You Think of it!
Yin Deficiency Reviews – of the book. What do people think about it? Did they find the information useful? Read their opinions!
Western Astrology and Chinese Medicine
Western Astrology and Chinese Medicine was written in 1986. It had quite a few reviews but the author lost the file containing them during a house move!
Insurance Cover for Acupuncture from a member of BAcC
Can you get insurance cover for acupuncture from a member of the BAcC – British Acupuncture Council? Growing evidence shows how often acupuncture can help!
Borscht – a great European soup and health saviour!
Balanced yin and yang, Borscht is wonderfully nutritious when taken Cold in Summer or Warm in Winter! Improves endurance, blood pressure and immunity.
Acupuncture Study Reading List
Interested in Acupuncture Study, Reading and Chinese medicine? Here’s a good reading list to get started. Many colleges recommend them too.
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