Acute conditions

Chinese medicine is extremely effective in treating acute pain and injury, speeding up recovery time and may potentially avoid the need for pain relieving medication. It is a great way to nip that cold you can feel coming on in the bud, or treat your seasonal hay fever before it even has a chance to arrive for spring.

Anxiety and Depression

These are the two most common mental health disorders in Australia today. Chinese medicine appreciates that our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health are inseparable, so treating it effectively has to approach all of these facets equally. Chinese medicine also knew how important gut and digestive function was to an individual's emotional and spiritual health, long before Western medicine valued the gut/brain connection.

Skin conditions

Western medicine often has very little to offer in terms of treating skin conditions effectively, including eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis and acne. Topical creams such as cortisone are only temporary solutions, and the underlying cause is often left unchecked.

Chinese medicine has a different approach to skin conditions, viewing them as a manifestation of our internal environment. It can therefore offer both temporary local relief, as well determining the factors that may be causing it at a deeper level.

Women's Health

There has been an incredible rise in reproductive conditions such as uterine fibroids, endometriosis and PCOS in women in modern times. This could be explained by a number of factors, including a rise in environmental estrogens (xenoestrogens) , stress and lifestyle factors, poor diet choices and a lack of key minerals and nutrients. Women need to know that the oral contraceptive pill is not the only form of treatment available for these hormone imbalances. Synthetic hormones are not the same as natural hormones, and come with both short and long term potential side effects. Chinese medicine may offer an effective alternative to addressing these hormonal imbalances, supporting healthy menstrual cycles that are pain and symptom free.

Chronic conditions

It is well documented that acupuncture and herbal medicine can provide significant improvement to a wide variety of chronic pain conditions, including migraines, headaches, sciatica, back and neck pain, frozen shoulder and fibromyalgia. 

It provides another lens to view and treat complex autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, ulcerative colitis and MS. These are diseases that are often given poor prognosis by conventional medicine and rely heavily on medications that can have some serious side effects.

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions, but hard to get one single remedy.
~Chinese Proverb