Category: TCM Education & Research

Australia is one of only a handful of countries in the world where acupuncture is regulated at the national government level — and this regulatory… Read more →

Acupuncture is consistently ranked among the safest of all medical interventions when performed by properly trained, registered practitioners — yet concerns about safety are common,… Read more →

When patients search for “Chinese Medicine in Perth,” they may not realise that the term encompasses substantially different clinical approaches — ranging from the standardised… Read more →

Chinese herbal medicine is generally very safe when prescribed by a qualified practitioner — but the question of interactions with prescription medications is legitimate and… Read more →

Parents often ask whether acupuncture is safe for children — and the answer, supported by paediatric research, is yes, when performed by appropriately trained registered… Read more →

For decades, sceptics dismissed acupuncture as placebo because no one understood the mechanism. That position has become increasingly difficult to maintain as functional MRI studies,… Read more →

While acupuncture has attracted extensive Western clinical research, Chinese herbal medicine — the other major pillar of classical Chinese Medicine — has its own growing… Read more →

The Cochrane Collaboration produces the world’s most rigorous medical evidence summaries. Acupuncture has been examined in more than 50 Cochrane reviews over the past two… Read more →

What causes Yang deficiency — is it genetic? Constitutional predisposition (genetic) is one factor. But Yang deficiency is usually acquired through lifestyle: chronic overwork without… Read more →

Does Blood Stagnation cause endometriosis? Classical Chinese medicine sees endometriosis as a manifestation of Blood Stasis pattern — blood is not circulating properly in the… Read more →