Blog & insights
Blog and Insights
Welcome to our blog, a place for helpful, down-to-earth insights on acupuncture, fertility, chronic health and living well. Here you will find practical guidance and gentle wisdom drawn from traditional Chinese medicine and modern research, to help you feel more in control of your health.
Fertility How are PCOS and Polycystic ovaries different?
What is PCOS and Polycystic ovary? How are they different? We’ll talk about the common symptoms and what can be done to improve ovary health.
Fertility Fertility supplements – the best Prenatal for fertility
With our busy lifestyle, getting a good and balanced amount of vital vitamins and minerals simply from the food we eat is not easy. These two nutrients are, however, essential for boosting our conception. They are als…
Fertility Why is Vitamin D important for fertility?
As well as being important for normal immune function and bone health, Vitamin D has a huge impact on our fertility. Deficiency of vitamin D has been associated with endometriosis, PCOS, reduced IVF success and abnorm…
Fertility How to improve male fertility with Chinese medicine
One in seven couples have trouble conceiving. And as the word “couple” suggests some of that will be attributed to Male factor infertility, current research indicates it could be up to 40% to 50%. Around 7% of men suf…
Wellbeing 6 Ways to Help Improve Your Sleep and Insomnia
Most of us have experienced insomnia at some point in our lives, it can be mild inconvenience when it happens infrequently and completely debilitating when occurring regularly. Here are 6 ways to improve our sleep!
Fertility Acupuncture for Amenorrhea and Irregular Menstruation
Irregular menstruation (Oligomenorrhea) and having no menstruation at all (Amenorrhea) are two ends of the spectrum of cycle issues, all of which can be treated with acupuncture.
Fertility Clear Blocked Fallopian Tube Related Infertility With Acupuncture
Clinical results have proven that a combination of acupuncture and herbal medicine has a 90% success rate of clearing blockages and therefore boosting fertility, compared to a success rate of only 53% when receiving a…
Fertility Preparing for fertility: What is a “healthy body”?
Take a minute to ask yourself this question: What is a healthy body to you? Some people’s answer might be simply without any physical illness, or to have a body like the cover girl or Instagram influencer. Some might…
Fertility The 3 treasure of fertility – body
It goes without saying that physical exercise and a balanced diet are part of the recommended lifestyle changes for anyone struggling to conceive naturally. However, a very common misconception is that the more we exe…
Fertility The 3 treasures of fertility – mind
Previously we talked about Jing, our essence of life, and why our bodies should be in the best possible condition for conception. To achieve that, we can practise exercises to enhance three core areas of human functio…
Fertility Why do we need to prepare our bodies for pregnancy?
Why do we need to prepare our bodies for pregnancy? To answer that question, we will need to talk about the concept of Jing (精) in Traditional Chinese Medicine.