Allergic Rhinitis Hayfever Adelaide
Clinical evidence demonstrates that acupuncture improves symptoms in persistent allergic rhinitis. Acupuncture reduces nasal and eye symptoms including itching, sneezing, and runny nose.
Anxiety and Depression
Studies on the efficacy of both acupuncture and acupressure for the treatment of anxiety and the symptoms of PTSD show promising results.
Asthma
Anyone subject to asthmatic attacks is well aware of the critical feeling of imminent threat. Chinese Medicine has recognised and tended to the signs of wheezing and breathlessness for many centuries.
Chinese Medicine (CM) has well established frameworks for discriminating the different causes of wheezing and breathlessness, whether it is exterior Cold or Wind or pre-existing Phlegm or Lung deficiency. CM diagnosis pays attention to the specific symptoms and body signs that any one person presents. The full range of Chinese Medicine skills including acupuncture, acupressure and Chinese herbal medicine offer a reputable treatment option for the management of asthma.
Back Pain
Back pain is one of the most common reasons for seeking medical attention. Numerous high-level studies have demonstrated that acupuncture is an effective method for relief of back pain.
Chinese Medicine always takes an individualised approach to treatment. It has an elaborate system of diagnostic analysis that adapts to the specific symptoms and body signs that any one person presents. The full range of Chinese Medicine skills including acupuncture, acupressure and Chinese herbal medicine offer a reputable treatment option for the management of pain.
Bronchitis
Weak, loud, productive, raspy, explosive, painful, hacking, irritating, relentless, aching … coughs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes! Many people suffer from long term tendency to cold invasion and serial influenza infection. For these people, a chronic tendency to lung infection with productive green or brown phlegm is very common.
Chinese Medicine always takes an individualised approach to treatment. It has an elaborate system of diagnostic analysis that adapts to the specific symptoms and body signs that any one person presents. The full range of Chinese Medicine skills including acupuncture, acupressure and Chinese herbal medicine offer a reputable treatment option for the management of bronchitis.
Digestive Dysfunction
The ‘Guts Department’ is like a factory … it is designed for the right raw materials to come in at one end, for the waste products to be cleared out effectively at the other and for a system of production in the middle. In this case the ‘products’ of the guts department are blood and vitality. When this body factory is operating smoothly, all is right with the world … but so much can go wrong!
Chinese Medicine (CM) has a long history of dealing with digestive issues. Constipation, diarrhea, bloating, nausea, acid reflux and abdominal pain are all symptoms that can be addressed with the full range of Chinese Medicine skills including acupuncture, acupressure and Chinese herbal medicine. CM always takes an individualised approach to treatment. It has an elaborate system of diagnostic analysis that adapts to the specific symptoms and body signs that any one person presents. CM offer a reputable treatment option for the management of digestive dysfunction.
Fatigue
Everybody gets a little tired occasionally, but it definitely shouldn’t be a habit. For some people fatigue can be so intense and relentless that just getting out of bed in the morning can become a serious challenge. For anyone experiencing regular fatigue but without other debilitating body dysfunction, it may well be a matter of finding the right habit of exercise. You Chinese Medicine doctor will certainly want to know how you are using your body and is very likely to recommend an exercise regime. But for those with serious Chronic Fatigue, the pathway to recovery is far more complex.
Headache
Throbbing, sharp, stabbing, pounding, nagging, burning, severe, vice-like, excruciating … these are all descriptions of pain anywhere in the region of head and neck. Anyone suffering from headache on a regular or semi-regular basis knows how exhausting and disabling this condition can be.
A combination of acupuncture and acupressure may be just the thing you are looking for to give you relief.
Damian Carey, our Doctor of Chinese Medicine, has decades of experience treating patients with headache.
Insomnia
Chinese Medicine (CM) has a long history of dealing with sleep disorders. Insomnia can have a variety of causes, from digestive dysfunction to interior heat or what Chinese Medicine refers to as Deficiency of the Yin or Blood.
CM has an elaborate system of diagnostic analysis that discerns the specific symptoms and body signs that any one person presents and from this a specific Pattern of Disharmony is established and an individualised treatment approach is enacted using the full range of Chinese Medicine skills including acupuncture, acupressure and Chinese herbal medicine.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome - IBS
Up to 15% of the population suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). For a quarter of these sufferers, the symptoms are severe and current pharmaceutical management can be less than satisfactory.
Fortunately a realistic treatment alternative is available. Acupuncture’s well-established anti-inflammatory effect has particular relevance for IBS; and Chinese Herbal Medicine has a long history in treatment of gastro-intestinal disorders.
Damian Carey, our Doctor of Chinese Medicine, has decades of experience treating patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Knee Osteoarthritis
Acupuncture has very strong evidence of efficacy in osteoarthritis of the knee.
Chinese Medicine always takes an individualised approach to treatment. It has an elaborate system of diagnostic analysis that adapts to the specific symptoms and body signs that any one person presents. The full range of Chinese Medicine skills including acupuncture, acupressure and Chinese herbal medicine offer a reputable treatment option for the management of knee pain.
Damian Carey, our Doctor of Chinese Medicine, has decades of experience treating patients with knee pain.
Menopausal Hot Flushing
There you are, going about your life with confidence and purpose, when all of a sudden you get another hot flush and within moments you’re reduced to a flustered, sweaty mess and wondering if you can get away with stripping off your clothes! For many women this is a sad and common story. Fortunately there are pro-active ways of dealing with these distressing symptoms, beyond the standard medical response of hormone replacement therapy.
Chinese Medicine (CM) has been tending to this condition for many centuries. It has an elaborate system of diagnostic analysis that considers the specific symptoms and body signs that each person presents. The full range of Chinese Medicine skills including acupuncture, acupressure and Chinese herbal medicine offer a reputable treatment option for the management of menopausal hot flushing.
Migraine
Anyone suffering from migraine on a regular or semi-regular basis knows just how exhausting and disabling this condition can be. Not only do you have to put up with severe, throbbing headaches, often aggravated by movement, but in many cases there is nausea, photophobia, visual auras and great difficulty in concentrating. Many migraine sufferers have no choice but to get to bed and ride it out.
If you are one of these people, then Chinese Medicine (CM) might be just what you are looking for. CM has an elaborate system of diagnostic analysis that adapts to the specific symptoms and body signs that any individual presents. The full range of Chinese Medicine skills including acupuncture, acupressure and Chinese herbal medicine offer a reputable treatment option for the management of migraine.
Nausea and Vomiting
Anyone subject to persistent nausea and/or vomiting knows the distress this causes. Your diet is often critical and your Chinese Medicine doctor will want to know exactly what you are putting in your mouth and will very likely recommend specific dietary modifications. But nausea is often more than a matter of diet. A Chinese Medicine diagnostic approach may discern excess dampness, organ deficiency, internal cold or long term pathogenic invasion.
Chinese Medicine diagnostic analysis pays attention to the specific symptoms and body signs that any one person presents. The full range of Chinese Medicine skills including acupuncture, moxibustion and Chinese herbal medicine offer a reputable treatment option for the management of nausea and vomiting.
Pain Relief
Pain is the most common reason for seeking medical attention. For some people pain may be temporary and easy to tolerate, but for many others it can be severe or unrelenting or both. If you have a body, then you will be familiar with the experience of pain.
The good news is that, although pain is inevitable, suffering is optional! Numerous high-level studies have demonstrated that acupuncture is an effective method for relief of pain associated with a range of disorders.
Damian Carey, our Doctor of Chinese Medicine, has decades of experience treating patients with pain.
Pregnancy Care
The joy of pregnancy can be easily tarnished with the reality of swollen legs, back pain, nausea and anxiety. Chinese Medicine has well established protocols for addressing these distressing symptoms.
Chinese Medicine always takes an individualised approach to treatment. It has an elaborate system of diagnostic analysis that adapts to the specific symptoms and body signs that any one person presents. The full range of Chinese Medicine skills including acupuncture, acupressure and Chinese herbal medicine offer a reputable treatment option for the management of pregnancy.
Premenstrual Syndrome - PMS
Too many women go through distressing pain and mood swings month after month believing it to be normal. Yes, it is common … but it doesn’t have to be this way.
Chinese Medicine takes an individualised approach to treatment. It has an elaborate system of diagnostic analysis that adapts to the specific symptoms and body signs that any one person presents. The full range of Chinese Medicine skills including acupuncture, acupressure and Chinese herbal medicine offer a reputable treatment option for the management of the symptoms of PMS.
The following list of 'Conditions' is a summary of the aches and pains, dysfunctions and diseases that human beings are prone to. This is typical of what people present to Chinese Medicine clinics on a regular basis. All of these have varying degrees of evidence of efficacy with acupuncture, ranging from strong evidence of positive effect through to little or no evidence. [see: