Learn more about your symptoms through my book selection:
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?
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.
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 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 (incl. erectile dysfunction) aims to show you how Chinese medicine and acupuncture might 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.
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