Mark Kiely: Acupuncture London

When contemplating acupuncture and acute febrile disease treatment, the main source from classical Chinese medical literature is Yi Tian Shi. He was a Qing dynasty physician working in the eighteenth century. Yi Tian Shi developed a theory of treating infectious diseases at a time when they were rampant in China. In his work Wen Re … Read more

In 2015, the first Nobel prize for traditional Chinese medicine was awarded. In October of that year, the Nobel prize committee awarded one half of the 2015 prize in physiology/medicine to Tu Youuou of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing for her “discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria”. In 1969. she … Read more

British Acupuncture Council member, Karin Gillerman, has carried out a trial at the Homerton hospital in London on the effectiveness of acupuncture together with IVF. The data collected showed a conception rate of 46% in the acupuncture group and only 22% in the non-acupuncture group. She funded the costs of treatment for this study herself … Read more

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.” Zhuang Zhou Zhunag Zhou was a Chinese philosopher of the Warring States period in the fourth century

Acupuncture and menopausal hot flushes is an area of interest to many clinicians. A US trial has found that acupuncture treatment can reduce the hot flushes associated with menopause. The frequency of hot flushes after six months was reduced by 37% in a group of patients having acupuncture (up to a maximum of twenty treatment … Read more

Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory intestinal disease. Regions of the ileum (the distal part of the small intestine from which food passes into the caecum part of the large intestine) become inflamed and oedematous. The condition usually starts quite suddenly in teens or in young adults. Presenting symptoms are likely to be lower … Read more

Here are the new years opening times. Apologies for failing to provide an update of my availability over the Christmas period. A couple of people have pointed this out to me. Here is my altered availability for the new year period. Saturday 31 Dec: not working Sunday 1 January: Greenwich Natural Health Clinic closed Monday … Read more

Professor Muir Gray, former NHS Head of Knowledge, has described an ‘epidemic’ of over-prescription of pharmaceutical drugs. In a BBC television programme that aired in two parts back in October, Dr Chris van Tulleken explored this issue. The show was called ‘The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs’. One of the things we learnt from this … Read more

Following on from my previous piece about the new study being undertaken to explore whether moxa treatment can help to reduce the potentially dangerous side-effects of chemotherapy, here is a short exploration of how moxibustion works. The mechanisms of moxa treatment have not been fully established in western medical terms. One theory generally held is … Read more