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Varicocele (Teste) Pain A varicocele is an enlargement of the veins in the scrotum. It is not unlike varicose veins that you find in the leg. Varicoceles can occur with no symptoms at all. Other times symptoms may emerge including pain, impeded teste growth and low sperm count leading to infertility. Varicoceles mainly affect younger…
Diabetes is Out of Control Around 1.5 million Australians have been diagnosed with diabetes, with another estimated 1.2 million undiagnosed. Near 3 million Australians have pre-diabetes. That’s approximately 25% of the Australian adult population affected by diabetes. How did it get this bad? It all comes down to what we are eating and with the…
Pulse Diagnosis Reveals the Causes of Many Health Problems A Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis expert can place their fingers on your radial pulse to read the causes of many of your health problems, often without asking you any questions at all. How is this possible, you may ask? This article explains how and why it’s…
Emotional Weight Gain Do you eat when you are upset or stressed and feel guilty about it later and wonder why you did it? Do you put weight on during stressful periods in your life despite how you eat or how much exercise you do? Well, it’s not your fault! And this blog discusses why….
What is Cupping? If you recall back to the Rio Olympics, Michael Phelps and other athletes were turning up at events with their backs covered in red dots. There was a lot of media about it which introduced the ancient Chinese medical practice of cupping to a lot of people. What is Cupping? Cupping uses…
Acupuncture for Rheumatoid Arthritis Rheumatoid arthritis is an immune system and chronic inflammatory disorder that mainly affects joints but also affects other body systems including skin, lungs, eyes, heart and blood vessels. It affects the lining of joints and can cause a lot of pain and even deformities. Basically, the body’s immune system attacks the…
Heart Health – Small Vessel Stenosis The heart is a muscle. And like any other muscle it relies on good blood flow to distribute the oxygen and nutrients it needs to keep going strong. The heart has large vessels coming into it and major coronary vessels feeding blood to the heart muscle. The heart is…
How Acupuncture Really Works Misinformation about acupuncture There’s a lot of misinformation around about how acupuncture really works. Much of this comes down to poor translations of ancient Chinese texts into English almost 100 years ago. Acupuncture is not magic or ‘voodoo’ Despite popular views acupuncture does not work by manipulating invisible energy along invisible…
Acupuncture – First or Last Resort The reality is that acupuncture in Melbourne for many is a last resort. It is usually only after Western medicine has failed to address or fix a health issue that people turn to acupuncture and Chinese medicine. As a result, many of the cases we see in the clinic…
Not All Acupuncture Needles are the Same The old saying ‘you get what you pay for’ also applies to acupuncture needles. Expensive acupuncture needles are up to five times the price of cheap acupuncture needles. What’s the Difference in Acupuncture Needles? In Melbourne (and Australia), all acupuncture needles must be single use, sterile, stainless steel…
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