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Lung Yang Deficiency – ‘Cold’ ‘Weak’ lungs
Lung Yang deficiency means your Lungs don’t manage, warm and move Qi round your body properly. Hence, frequent respiratory problems.
Gallbladder channel
Gallbladder channel acupuncture points lie mainly on the side of the body, stretching from eye to fourth toe. They have many important functions.
Gallbladder 20 – Fengchi – Wind Pond
Gallbladder 20 clears Wind and Excess Yang from the head, easing headache and eye, nose and ear problems. Too strong for some patients.
Dry Skin, what causes Skin Dryness and How to Treat it
Dry Skin – how to understand it with yin and yang. It takes healthy Blood to make healthy skin, and a way to get that healthy blood where it’s needed!
Earth Element or Earth Phase
The Earth element grounds and stabilises us, providing self-reliance, endurance and dependability. A good digestion is a blessing!
Chinese Medicine Clock – Organ Horary Times
Your Chinese medicine clock time shows when an organ may be more or less energetic, not necessarily at its best!
Metal Element or Metal Phase
Metal element or Metal phase generates the essence of maturity and experience, ready to enrich the next cycle of life: meantime, fortifying spirit!
The Wood Element or Phase
Growth and Your Wood element or Wood Phase describes how your life and health respond to growing and expanding your horizons.
Water – Water phase or Water Element
Water phase or Water Element problems often come with lack of fluidity and poor recovery from rest: memory and comprehension issues.
Anti-Dampness Foods – which help to clear Damp!
Discover which anti-dampness foods and herbs help DISPEL damp from your body. But also, STOP eating foods that CAUSE damp!
Cold Feet Meaning Poor Circulation in Feet
Do you get cold feet? All the time or just when you’re tired? How does Chinese medicine explain this and what can you do about it?
Spleen 10 – Xuehai: Sea of Blood
Spleen 10, Zuehai, Sea of Blood, strengthens your Blood, controlling yang factors like Heat and helping to steady your Mind.
Heart Yang Deficiency – Palpitations, Cold and Weak
Heart Yang Deficiency – Cold, Tired, Depleted Spirits. Signs , symptoms,, aetiology and what to do! And if you ignore it, what happens next.
Spleen 8 – Diji – Earth Motivator
Spleen 8 – Diji – is Spleen xi-cleft point, moves fluids and regulates Blood: very useful for uterine problems and pain, also being analgesic.
Acupuncture and Homoeopathy – which is best?
Between acupuncture and homoeopathy, which is best? Given the choice between these two great therapies, how do you decide?!
How to Warm Up if You’re Always Cold
Always poor circulation and can’t warm up? You need this page to explain why and what to do! Also, learn what NOT to do – important!
Fermented Food and your Liver
Fermented foods both preserve and enhance a food’s quality, add ‘sourness’ to you diet and help Liver and Gallbladder work better.
Common Diseases List – Pages for You!
Common diseases listed are those you often ask about. Here’s how Chinese medicine explains them, and why it may help. Includes some syndromes, too.
Spleen Channel points: your Spleen meridian
This Spleen channel points list links to individual Spleen points for deeper study. The Spleen: Your Great Housekeeper!
Singing for health: Chinese medicine perspective
Singing means different things to different people. It can be enjoyable and community-enhancing. What about for health and your mind?
Phlegm After Eating, Constant Phlegm
Do you get phlegm after eating? Must hawk to clear throat mucus before speaking? With stuff that blocks your nose?
Three-Heater 6: SJ-6: Zhigou – Branch Ditch
Three-Heater 6 releases Qi stagnation and removes obstruction from intestines. Clears Heat from all parts of the body. Helps depression.
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.
Heart Qi Deficiency – Uncomfy Heart and S.O.B.
Heart Qi deficiency – you’d think this would deserve a long page, so important is the Heart. Well, no! It’s easily explained but still, important!
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.
Spleen 6 – Sanyinjiao: Three Yin Crossing
Spleen 6 Sanyinjiao is a strong reliable acupuncture point for yin and Blood problems, so good for clearing Damp and helping anaemia.
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.
Fees for Consultations with Jonathan
Want to know about fees for consultations with Jonathan? It varies, depending on whether online, telephone or video, or in the clinic.
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?
Strain and Chinese Medicine
Strain and stress cause pain and distress and can lead to illness. TCM can explain why you get it and how best to treat it.
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 for Yang Deficiency
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!
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