Perimenopause Symptoms: What It Actually Looks Like
Perimenopause is the transition leading up to the final period, and it commonly begins in the mid-forties. Symptoms starting before 45, and particularly before 40, still warrant medical assessment rather than assumption. The first sign is almost never a hot flush. It is a change in the cycle: periods arriving closer together, then further apart, […]
Acupuncture for Irregular Periods in London
An irregular cycle is not simply one that is not 28 days. What matters clinically is variation: how much the gap between periods changes from one cycle to the next. At my Belgravia clinic, irregular cycles are treated by identifying which pattern the timing points to, because a cycle that arrives early behaves differently from […]
Chinese Medicine for Eczema
Chinese medicine approaches eczema from the inside rather than the surface, using a personalised herbal formula matched to a diagnosed pattern rather than a single cream or herb. Responses vary between individuals and no outcome is guaranteed. The two most common presentations are damp heat, which is red, weeping, and intensely itchy, and blood dryness, […]
Acupuncture for Painful Periods in London
At my clinic inside the Light Centre in Belgravia, a five minute walk from Victoria station, acupuncture for painful periods is used to treat the pattern producing the pain rather than to mask the pain itself. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, period pain is read mainly as cold in the uterus, stagnant Liver Qi, blood stagnation, […]
Acupuncture for Tennis Elbow in London
At my clinic inside the Light Centre in Belgravia, a five minute walk from Victoria station, I use acupuncture for tennis elbow to reduce pain and restore circulation to a tendon that has stopped healing properly. It is used alongside progressive loading and a change to the grip that caused the problem, not instead of […]
Acupuncture for Heavy Periods in London
At Liu’s Chinese Medicine Clinic in Belgravia, acupuncture for heavy periods is used to regulate the menstrual cycle by treating the pattern behind the bleeding rather than the bleeding itself. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, heavy periods are read as one of five patterns, most commonly Qi too weak to hold blood in place, heat pushing […]
Acupuncture for Knee and Joint Pain in London
Liu’s Chinese Medicine Clinic treats knee and joint pain with acupuncture at the Light Centre in Belgravia, minutes from Victoria, and in most cases you are assessed and treated in the same first appointment. Acupuncture will not regrow worn cartilage, but for the pain, stiffness, and muscle weakness that come with an arthritic or overused […]
Acupuncture for Lower Back Pain and Pinched Nerve in London
Acupuncture for Lower Back Pain and Pinched Nerve in London Liu’s Chinese Medicine Clinic treats lower back pain and trapped-nerve pain with acupuncture at the Light Centre in Belgravia, minutes from Victoria, and in most cases you are assessed and treated in the same first appointment. Acupuncture cannot decompress a disc or un-pinch a nerve, […]
Acupuncture for Neck Pain in London
Liu’s Chinese Medicine Clinic treats neck pain with acupuncture at the Light Centre in Belgravia, minutes from Victoria, and in most cases you are assessed and treated in the same first appointment. For the most common kind of neck pain, the stiff, aching, desk-bound kind, acupuncture is one of the more reliable things to try, […]
Acupuncture for Shoulder and Frozen Shoulder Pain in London
Liu’s Chinese Medicine Clinic treats shoulder pain and frozen shoulder with acupuncture at the Light Centre in Belgravia, minutes from Victoria, and in most cases you are assessed and treated in the same first appointment. Acupuncture will not unfreeze a frozen shoulder overnight, because that condition runs its own long course, but it can take […]