Josh’s Acupuncture Blog
The blog posts are written to help you understand how acupuncture works, the philosophy or application of the incredible medicine, as well as how it can be useful in a whole range of conditions. Use the filters below to help you find content quickly.
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Acupuncture For Sleep
By calming the mind and stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system, acupuncture treatments help sleep after every session. It’s also incredibly effective for long-term sleep complaints.
Acupuncture For Allergies
Acupuncture can be really beneficial for all sorts of allergies. This includes things like hay fever, allergic rhinitis and much more. Read more about how you might benefit from acupuncture.
Acupuncture for Peripheral Neuropathy
An explanation of what peripheral neuropathy is, some of the underlying causes and how acupuncture can help in the treatment of it.
My Talk on Emotions
I recently did a talk to a good crowd at an Open Day. I didn’t want anyone to miss out on such an important topic, which also helps to show how acupuncture works a little so I created this to share the knowledge.
Seasonal Node: Frost’s Descent
The seasons are starting to change. There is more cold coming which is evidenced by seeing more frost in the morning. Read this blog to understand what this means and how we can tweak our lifestyles to maintain our health.
Seasonal Node: White Due
A short introduction into the new seasonal node called ‘White Due’. Read this to learn more about what’s going on around us, how this could affect us and some lifestyle advice that you could do to maintain your health.
Addressing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Acupuncture
Acupuncture can really help to reduce a lot of the symptoms of chronic fatigue. Whilst the condition itself isn’t curable, the work that we do helps to improve the quality of life that you might have.
Acupuncture for Muscles, Aches and Pains
Most patients come for acupuncture because of a pain of some form. This covers everything from backs, knees, shoulders, necks, and more.
Acupuncture for Mental Health
One of the big areas that I treat in the clinic is mental health conditions. This could be stand alone complaints or mental health conditions wrapped in other conditions. It’s one of the biggest areas that acupuncture treats in.
Buddhism and Chinese Medicine
Acupuncture has many different pathways since it’s inception. There are many close relationships between Chinese Medicine, Tibetan Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, and many more. This blog post explores Acupuncture and Buddhism’s close relationship.
Gua Sha: Ancient Healing Technique for Modern Times
Gua Sha is a way that we can treat our patients through encouraging the movement of Blood and Qi to the surface. Read this post to learn more about Gua Sha.
Acupuncture and Shoulder Pain
Shoulder pain is a common condition seen in the clinic. There are different reasons as to why this might occur, how it could manifest and there are different ways that we could treat it. Read this blog post to learn more about shoulder pain.
De Qi and Acupuncture: What You Need to Know
De Qi is often translated as the “Arrival of Qi”. It’s the feeling that you might get when a needle is inserted or it could be something that the practitioner feels. I wrote my dissertation on this topic and it is thoroughly interesting. Read this blog post to learn more.
A Short History of Acupuncture
Acupuncture has over 2,000 years of experience. This blog post explores its origins, history, and much more. Read the blog post to learn more.
Why Study Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is such an amazing way to see health and to encourage people to live their best lives. It’s such an amazing thing to study which provides such deep insights into ourselves and humans generally. Read this blog post to learn more about some of the reasons why it might be worth studying acupuncture.
Depression
Acupuncture can really help people with mental health disorders. There is no separation between our bodies and the spirit in acupuncture so every treatment works on both our health physically and mentally. Read this blog post to learn more.
Lower Back Pain and Acupuncture
Everyone gets back pain (including me). Lower back pain is a very common condition and in this blog post we look at what might cause it, how we treat it and some tips about how to prevent it from happening.