chinese medicine

Are you ready for Spring?

Are you ready for Spring? Did you know SPRING is the BEST SEASON to make HEALTH CHANGES? Chinese medicine is founded on empirical evidence, observation how our body behaves differently during different seasons. Therefore we should treat our body differently in each season. This pertains to three key lifestyle areas – Sleep, Diet and Exercise. Spring […]

Is there more to my back pain?

In my practice, I see a lot of back pain patients. Acupuncture is something well known to relieve pain, particularly for musculoskeletal pain related lower back pain.(1) Take for instance, lower back pain. Acupuncture, as part of Chinese medicine has its own understanding of the cause of back pain. Back pain can be caused by: 1) […]

Concession Day Acupuncture

Concession Acupuncture – Available Fridays at Metro Health with Marie Hopkinson.  To support all our patients who are going through a hard time financially, pensioners or health care card holders Marie offers $40 acupuncture treatments on Fridays. Call us to see if your eligible and to make an appointment. Clinic is open Fridays, 8am – […]

How does Chinese Medicine view cold and flus?

How does Chinese Medicine view cold and flus? The unique perspective of Chinese medicine shows us a different way of looking at how we get sick. It is because of this unique perspective that Chinese medicine has treatments to offer where other medicines don’t. Firstly in understanding cause of disease, Chinese medicine sees 3 main […]

Winter Flu Busters

There are lots of early-intervention foods that can treat colds and flus in Chinese medicine. THE KEY IS EARLY TREATMENT. Waiting until symptoms have lingered more than a day, it will be difficult to treat with food cures, however if you can catch the symptoms early enough then foods can provide a cheap, effective relief […]

Easy Slow Cooked Osso Bucco – Paleo Tonic

This easy to make recipe is natural, healthy and Paleo and it’s easy – only takes 10 minutes to prepare, you can buy all the ingredients at your local supermarket and it’s extremely healthy according to the ancient wisdom of Chinese Medicine. Overall, this recipie is a tonic which nourishes Blood and tonifies the Spleen […]

What do centenarians have in common with Chinese medicine?

Centenarians are people who live up to and beyond 100 years. Chinese Medicine is founded on the principals that a human being should live 100 healthy years. Research into centenarians shows common factors among various groups, which are also promoted as healthy by Chinese Medicine. Three of these are below: 1) Diet – intermittent fasting, […]

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 […]

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