Heaton Acupuncture Clinic

Acupuncturist in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE2 1DJ

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About the Business

Here at Heaton Acupuncture Clinic we passionately believe that the role of Oriental Medicine lies in encouraging and stimulating the body’s own defences and repair system to treat a wide range of physical and emotional conditions, our approach is ideally suited to a general practice and in meeting the variety of challenges that this brings allowing us to treat a wide range of conditions from cradle to old age.

We engage our patients in a way that suits their individual needs, whether it be a more involved emotionally based situation or a comparatively physical complaint. We also specialise in fertility, the treatment of children and muskulo-skeletal conditions.

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Acupuncture

Background:

Acupuncture has been practised in the East for centuries. Now this holistic form of medicine is becoming increasingly popular in Europe and America. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) provides a useful complement to orthodox medicine, as it can treat chronic or recurring problems such as backache, migraines and asthma, and can reduce the use of drugs in many conditions. Sometimes it can make sense of illnesses that modern medicine has difficulty treating. Seeing health and illness from a TCM perspective enables the acupuncturist to treat subtle imbalances.

Principles:

The Taoist postulated that there is an energy flow in every living being that is responsible for life. They called this energy “Qi”. This energy is analogous to the Indian concept of ‘prana’ or life force and permeates all creation. The Qi (pronounced as Chi) flows through the body in channels called acupuncture meridians. Every meridian influences an organ and there are different meridians for the heart, liver, lung, large intestine, stomach, urinary bladder etc.Some acupuncture meridians are negative in orientation while others are positive in orientation. The Chinese call these the Yin and the Yang.

Yin and Yang are relative terms in comparison with each other. Just as there is no darkness without light, no white without black there is no Yin without Yang and vice versa. Yin and Yang are also considered to be female and male respectively and both of these contain some amount of the opposite principal. The Yang meridians originate in hollow organs like the stomach, large intestine, small intestine, urinary bladder and the gall bladder. The Yin Meridians originate in solid organs like the heart, lung, liver, kidneys, and spleen.In a person who is healthy, the Chi flows through all the channels smoothly and the Yin and Yang are in a state of dynamic equilibrium.

This means that even though there are temporary fluctuations in the Yin and the Yang, the net energy is in balance. In a person who is sick, the energy flows are obstructed and unbalanced causing either excess or a deficiency of Yin Qi, or an excess or a deficiency of Yang Qi. Acupuncture achieves its curative effect by clearing the obstruction in the flow of Chi and balancing the energy flow. Once the flow of energy is restored to normal, the person becomes and remains healthy.