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New Research Explores How Traditional Chinese Medicine Works

Modern scientific research is continuing to investigate how traditional Chinese medicine treatments such as acupuncture may help support the body’s natural healing processes. While these therapies have been used for thousands of years, researchers are now using advanced technology to better understand how they affect the nervous system, circulation, and immune response. Traditional Chinese Medicine…

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Hongwei Chinese Medicine Opens New Clinic in Marylebone, London

Hongwei Chinese Medicine Clinic has expanded its services with the opening of a new clinic in Marylebone, Central London, making traditional Chinese medicine treatments more accessible to patients across the capital. With over 30 years of clinical experience in acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the clinic has already built a strong reputation in Essex…

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Depression - Acupuncture - Essex

Treating the patient not the symptoms

Acupuncture to improve overall health – Evidence, acceptance and strategies Documented mechanisms of acupuncture suggest the possibility of whole body effects in addition to local and regional effects. Traditional theories of acupuncture predict whole body effects. Does this permit the possibility of applying treatment to target overall health improvement of the patient rather than the symptom?…

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Post COVID-19 Treatment

Post COVID-19 Treatment

Ingrid, my patient, approached me on the 21st of March 2020 with symptoms of Covid-19 including aching, cough and fatigue. She also lost her sense of smell and had flu-like symptoms such as raised temperature. I prescribed 4 weeks of herbs and within 11 days she felt much better, with her sense of taste and…

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BBC Documentary The Science of Acupuncture

Kathy Sykes, Professor at Bristol University, begins her journey in China where she sees some incredible demonstrations of acupuncture. The most astonishing is a scene in a Chinese hospital in which doctors perform open heart surgery on a young woman – using a combination of acupuncture and conventional pain relief instead of a general anaesthetic. In China…

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