Diagnosis and treatment

Your acupuncture treatment will be tailored uniquely and individually to you, to fit your specific needs. We learn a lot about you during the diagnosis and we build on this at every treatment. We take into account your work-life, relationship, family, diet, lifestyle as well as your physical, mental and spiritual state to understand your condition fully.

The first treatment often involves a cleansing or detox treatment, which prepares you for further treatments and healing.

Only sterile, disposable, single-use needles are used.

We also use Moxibustion (moxa) which is a type of heat therapy where we burn mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) on the skin’s surface. Other treatments may also include Cupping, GuaSha, Tuina massage and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

A typical course of treatment would be a weekly appointment for three to four weeks, progressing to fortnightly and then proceeding to longer intervals as necessary.  We recommend a minimum of 6 treatments.  Our aim is to gradually increase the gap between treatments until we reach the ‘maintenance’ stage of treatment when we will work on keeping you healthy in a preventative sense. Most patients then continue to visit us once a season, or when life suddenly presents challenges we struggle to cope with.

For fertility treatments we recommend coming for treatment for a period of 3 to 4 months (the time it takes for an egg or sperm to mature) to help prepare for pregnancy. Some pregnancies happen much sooner, some take longer, every individual is different.