Pre-birth Acupuncture has been shown to reduce the length of labor and medical intervention, specifically the use of epidurals, medical inductions, and cesarean deliveries.
Category: Women´s Health
While Western medicine considers the practice of women’s health to be limited to not much beyond pregnancy and pap smears, Chinese medicine has thousands of years’ history treating the intricacies, cycles, and complexities that make up the complete picture of health for women. Helping women to balance their hormones and feel their best is one of the most rewarding aspect of this work.
The contraceptive pill contains synthetic hormones that block ovulation and thicken your cervical mucus so that sperm have a reduced chance of meeting up with…
Fluids, including blood, circulate more easily when warm and research has shown that an improved blood flow to the uterus is associated with better pregnancy…
When most people say “menopause,” they mean more than just the end of female reproductive functions and more, even, than just the accompanying hormonal changes.…
Acupressure is similar to shiatsu in that it involves applying pressure to key points on the body’s energy system. It is widely practiced in Asia…
In terms of Chinese medicine, endometriosis is linked to stagnation of Blood (leading to excessive growth of tissues, heavy periods with often dark blood and…
From a Chinese medicine perspective, the imbalance that leads to PCOS can be rectified through several means, from acupuncture to dietary therapy or the use…
Pregnancy can be accompanied by some uncomfortable symptoms but there are certainly ways to alleviate and prevent things like cramps, nausea, insomnia or back pain.…
For those of us who will unfortunately develop cancer and have medical treatment, there there are therapies that may help alleviate some of the side…
Despite falling pregnant easily the first-time round, women are increasingly struggling to conceive their second child and up to one in five couples trying for…