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Testimonials

You won’t find testimonials on our website or social medial.  Patient’s success stories, before and after photos of treatment results, and patients endorsing the success of acupuncture or Chinese herbal medicine are not published by Metro Health. Why? They are not allowed by the regulatory body for all health professionals in Australia, AHPRA. Does this […]

Ease tension and stress with Acupressure

Treating stress with Acupressure isn’t hard, In this post, Acupuncturist Marie Hopkinson will show you how you can give yourself a 3 minute stress-buster in your work day. Acupressure is simply pressing on acupuncture points to release a similar-like effect to acupuncture. When you feel Qi in the points (Qi is essentially energy pronounced chee) […]

Acupuncture just as good as Placebo?

This is a comment by Acupuncturist, Marie Hopkinson on Today’s news reporting on a recent study for Acupuncture in the treatment of hot flushes. Reported by ABC  “Real and fake acupuncture both ease the symptoms of menopausal hot flushes: study” and even in a very limited “article” in the West Australian today: The current published report […]

Common problems

What conditions can be treated with Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine) ? Most patients initially seek help because of a particular health problems. These can be diagnosed diseases / syndromes or a symptom like a “cough”. At Metro Health the kind of Chinese medicine we practice is essentially about mobilising your own bodies […]

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