Not Sure What To Do? Use Your Brain!

Not Sure What To Do? Use Your Brain!

When it comes to healthcare, we are lucky to have a wealth of information and options at our fingertips. If you prefer to be an active participant in your health, one of the best ways is to ask your healthcare practitioners for more information.

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Never Tried Acupuncture? Here are 10 reasons why you should.

Never Tried Acupuncture? Here are 10 reasons why you should.

1. Acupuncture promotes a state of relaxation

Do you ever feel there are just not enough hours in the day to meet the demands of work, family, and self-care? Are you operating in a state of chronically high stress? Acupuncture can switch on your body’s relaxation pathways and retrain your body and mind in how to relax.

2. Acupuncture can help improve sleep

Acupuncture treats the root cause of what is causing the insomnia and actually benefits your overall health at the same time as well as restoring restful, reliable sleep patterns.

3. Acupuncture can boost your energy

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Hayfever
Wesley Smith Wesley Smith

Hayfever

Spring in Canberra is a glorious time, with delicate blossoms and sunny wattle putting on a show, the days lengthening and warming up. Except, of course, if you’re a hayfever sufferer, in which case sneezes, red sniffly noses and teary eyes are the norm. If you’re one of the unlucky 15% or so who suffers from hayfever there are things you can do other than hide in your room, to ease the discomfort.

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Manage Your Pain With Traditional Chinese Medicine

Manage Your Pain With Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) considers pain to be caused by the lack of free flow of qi and/or blood. To put it simply, when the qi and blood move freely, there is no pain. Unfortunately, the flow of qi and blood can become inhibited at any and every area of the body. The internal organs, joints and ligaments, muscles can all be affected by qi and blood stagnation. What causes the stagnation?

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ACUPUNCTURE BEATS MORNING SICKNESS
Acupuncture, Womens Health Sally Nourse Acupuncture, Womens Health Sally Nourse

ACUPUNCTURE BEATS MORNING SICKNESS

The condition of ‘morning sickness’ is a misnomer. It can in fact strike at any time, day or night, sometimes constantly. It is often described as a terrible hangover that never relents, car sickness or food poisoning that doesn’t get better. It is experienced mostly in the early stages of pregnancy between six and sixteen weeks, although for some unfortunate women it can be a constant until they reach full term. It is thought that this often-debilitating condition is caused by the huge surge of circulating hormones. Stress and fatigue are also thought to be contributing factors. Symptoms include nausea

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Relief From Menopause Without Drugs
Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Womens Health Wesley Smith Acupuncture, Herbal Medicine, Womens Health Wesley Smith

Relief From Menopause Without Drugs

Typically, as women approach or enter their fifties, they will first navigate perimenopause and then menopause as the ovary’s production of oestrogen declines and then stops and the menstrual cycle ceases, a process which can take on average four years but can take up to ten.

The significant hormonal upheaval of the menopausal transition is often marked by uncomfortable symptoms of hot flushes, excess sweating, moods swings, sleep disturbances, depression, anxiety, brain fog and weight gain.

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