Cough With Phlegm or a Constant Lump in Your Throat: Why These Are the Same Pattern in TCM
Most people treat a phlegmy cough and a throat that will not stop clearing itself as two unrelated annoyances, one for a pharmacy shelf and one to mention to the GP if it does not go away. Here is the direct answer to why they are usually connected: in Traditional Chinese Medicine, both a cough […]
Acupuncture for Hay Fever in London: Why Starting Treatment in Pollen Season Is Already Too Late
Most people wait until their eyes are streaming and their nose will not stop running before they book acupuncture for hay fever. Here is the direct answer to why that timing works against you: in Traditional Chinese Medicine, the sneezing and blocked nose you get every spring or summer are the acute presentation of a […]
Acupuncture for Endometriosis in London: Why “Just Manage the Pain Until Your Laparoscopy” Is Not a Plan
Most women with endometriosis spend years being told the same thing: the pain is real, but nothing can be confirmed until a laparoscopy, and until then, painkillers and the pill are the plan. Here is the direct answer to what that leaves out. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, endometriosis is understood as a progression of Qi […]
Acupuncture for PCOS in London: Why Weight Loss Advice Alone Does Not Fix the Cycle
Most women with PCOS are told the same three things: lose weight, go on the pill, and come back if you want to conceive. Here is the direct answer to what is missing from that advice: in Traditional Chinese Medicine, PCOS is understood as a combination of patterns, most often Phlegm-Damp accumulation, Kidney deficiency, Blood […]
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 […]