Category: TCM Education
Acupuncture for Children — What Paediatric Research Shows
Parents often ask whether acupuncture is safe for children — and the paediatric literature reports low adverse-event rates when treatment is given by appropriately trained… Read more →
Acupuncture and the Nervous System — How It Changes the Brain
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 →
Chinese Herbal Medicine Research — What the Evidence Shows
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 →
Acupuncture Meta-Analyses — What the Cochrane Reviews Find
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 Is Yang Deficiency? Perth Patients Ask — The Classical Chinese Medicine Explanation
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 →
What Is Blood Stagnation in Chinese Medicine? Signs, Causes and Treatment
Blood Stagnation is one of the most common patterns seen in Classical Chinese Medicine, and one of the easiest to picture. Think of a river… Read more →
What Is Qi Deficiency? A Modern Explanation of TCM’s Most Common Pattern
Can Qi deficiency be fixed with just herbal medicine? Herbal medicine is essential but not sufficient alone. Qi is replenished through rest (especially sleep), warm… Read more →
The Role of Diet in Chinese Medicine — Why What You Eat Affects Your Treatment
Your acupuncturist may recommend avoiding cold drinks, ice cream and raw salads during treatment — not because of fad diet advice but because classical Chinese… Read more →
How Chinese Medicine Diagnoses Your Root Pattern — The Four Examinations
Chinese medicine doesn’t treat symptoms one at a time — it looks for the single pattern connecting them. The Four Examinations below are how Dr… Read more →
Acupuncture for Children — Is It Safe and What Does It Treat?
Parents often ask whether their child can benefit from acupuncture — and whether the needles will frighten them. The answer is yes to the first… Read more →