Shiatsu: The Japanese art of touch
When I am asked to explain how shiatsu works, I often start with talking about touch. Touch is powerful. Nothing comforts, enlivens or...
Some tea with your qi?
You may have noticed that we’ve been a bit tea obsessed lately here at Corinium Acupuncture. Visitors to our new premises in Dyer Street,...
Acupuncture and incontinence
There are some symptoms that many of us have and few of us talk about. With around a third of UK women experiencing symptoms of urinary...
Achieve more by doing less in autumn
Doing less in autumn and almost nothing in winter is the best way to be productive. Here's why... Daoist philosophy, the root of...
Eat to calm anxiety
There are several Chinese medicine syndromes that cause anxiety and the one I see most frequently in my clinic is Heart Blood Xu. If you...
Personality test: How hot is your Fire?
According to Chinese medicine, there are five aspects to our mental-emotional world. These are often called the Five Elements. Each...
Symptom check: Heart Blood Xu
According to the mental health charity Mind, nearly 1 in 20 of us struggled with an anxiety disorder in 2009. There are several Chinese...
Why Chinese and Western medicine are perfect partners
Great for smallpox, not so great for chronic pain Western medicine owes much to Descartes’ 17th Century Cartesian dualism, which severed...