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WHY ACUPUNCTURE?

First and foremost, acupuncture is a proven holistic approach to the management of disease.  Secondly, acupuncture is also a very important approach to the maintenance of health.  How can this be?  Well, all physical and mental symptoms are preceded by an imbalance in the Universal Life Energy, or Qi, within us.  Thus it follows that restoration or prevention of such an imbalance should prevent development of physical and mental symptoms.  Since acupuncture works to rebalance energy in a holistic way, it is able to detect such imbalances before they become physically obvious, thereby providing a very effective way to maintain health and even prevent disease.

The potential for personal Qi imbalance is plentiful in everyone’s life. Contributing factors include;

·     emotions (e.g. anxiety, stress, anger, fear or grief);

·     poor nutrition;

·     weather conditions;

·     hereditary factors;

·     infections;

·     poisons; and

·     trauma to name but a few.

Thus general life is a good enough reason to have acupuncture!  More specific reasons to decide to see an Acupuncturist might be as follows;

·     help with a problem that conventional medicine can no longer / or is unable to treat;

·     as an adjunct to conventional, Western medical approaches, e.g. radiotherapy or chemotherapy to treat cancer; promotion of bone healing/sports injuries etc;

·     as a kind of ‘personal service contract’ to maintain health and well being throughout the year.

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