Month: January 2015

Podcast: Does Acupuncture hurt?

Does Acupuncture Hurt?  Marie discusses this common question:   What is it like to have acupuncture? Will sticking needles into me be painful? This is a great question, and a very simple explanation of how acupuncture needles work will help you feel more at ease if it’s your first time to consider seeing an Acupuncturist.  Answering […]

Discover the peace zone…

Where is your peace zone? Where is the place where everything shuts off, where your mind can focus on a singular thing? Just breathe – no emails, no ideas or problems, no bills, no to do list or things to organize.  …just breathe in and out. Feel that life giving breath as your chest expands […]

Stories from China… Inside the Chinese Medicine Hospital

My three months in Hangzhou as an intern at the Hangzhou Shi Zhong Yi Yuan was one of my most memorable life experiences. As a teacher in Chinese Medicine, I am constantly urging my students to “go to China”. There is no substitute for this experience. I can’t even articulate all the reasons eloquently why […]

Natural ways to stop pain

When your in pain, all you want to do is work out the fastest way to stop the pain. Toothache, headache, back pain, stomach pains, joint pains – there are lots of natural ways to stop and relieve pain fast. Acupuressure for natural pain relief For thousands of years people have been rubbing where it […]

Surviving the Festive Season – Chinese medicine tips

With a calendar full of parties and Christmas day just around the corner, how do you survive the festive season without putting on extra kilos, getting over-stressed or going crazy? Chinese medicine practitioner, Marie Hopkinson shares some tips based on the Ancient wisdom of Chinese Medicine that can help you get through the silly season. […]

New Years Resolution…Part 2 Will Power

In the Huang Di Nei Jing it says the “Spleen stores ideas worrying beyond measure with out self-control will injure ideas” This concept that the Spleen stores ideas, is a link to digestion of both food and thoughts,  reinforced by another quote from the Nan Jing “…the Spleen stores ideas and intelligence” This same passage […]

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