If your health hasn’t been the best for a while, it means your body has stopped doing the job it was designed to do in keeping you healthy and happy. The human body is such a marvel of design, very capable of maintaining and repairing itself.  But it is a very complex machine. If your …

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Was 2019 a Bit of a Rough Year for Your Health? Did you consistently experience any of the following: Just too tired? Not sleeping well? Getting bloated all the time? Feeling anxious or depressed? In pain? Have you tried all you can to try to get your health back so you feel like you used …

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Falling Pregnant is Only Half the Story If you have had trouble conceiving you will probably (and totally understandably) be quite focussed on conceiving and putting all you efforts into this. Conceiving is obviously incredibly important, but it does signify the start of a much longer process that you will need to go through to …

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What Stress Does to Your Fertility When you get stressed you get tight on the outside (usually neck and shoulders) AND you get tight on the inside and your blood vessels start to narrow off.  This reduces blood flow.  And without good blood flow your main organs (especially your Kidney, Liver and Heart) and your …

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Good health is the absence of symptoms Broadly there are two types of disease: Serious, life-threatening disease (like heart disease and cancer); and Chronic non life-threatening disease (like chronic reflux, IBS, back pain, insomnia and fatigue). Many people have the chronic non life-threatening kind.  They just live with the symptoms: the pain, the discomfort and …

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Are Eggs, Butter and Meat Still ‘Bad’ for Your Cholesterol Levels? “Your body is going to make 80% of your cholesterol regardless of what you eat”, is what I have been saying in the clinic for years. So foods that were on the ‘naughty list’ like eggs, meat and butter are now no longer on …

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Are You Worried About Staying on Medications? LOTS of people are on medications. Medications generally suppress symptoms.  But they do little to address the root cause of your health problem. Come off the medication and the symptom is likely to come back. Some medications provide the relief required (e.g. for pain, reflux or sinus problems) …

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Self-Preservation for the Self-Employed Woman When you run a business you must have focus and drive to succeed.  It’s a competitive world and to get ahead you must push the envelope. All your study and training prepares you technically to get the job done.  But none of it prepares you to look after your health …

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5 Self-Care Tips to Keep You Feeling Great Self-care is so important to our health. There’s five small things we can all do each day to help our body’s stay healthier and happier! Lemon Juice in Warm Water A dash of lemon juice in a glass of warm water kicks starts your digestion and helps …

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Choose Your Health Hammer Wisely This was a really popular post I did recently. I’ve expanded it a little here. Recognise every practitioner for what they are and do. It’s like a hammer and nail (and you’re the nail). Every practitioner has their own tools (hammer). A GP will treat you with medications (her hammer). …

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Symptoms are Markers of Ill-Health If you are in perfect health you have no symptoms.  Your body is working as it should to keep you well and pain-free. Therefore, the more symptoms you have the more trouble is brewing with your health. There are hundreds of potential symptoms we can have within the broader categories …

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Hayfever Self Help It’s a horrible time for hayfever sufferers, especially in Melbourne! Here’s 4 things you can do to help reduce your hayfever. Eat less sugar and dairy. These foods cause your body to produce a lot of phlegm and exacerbate your allergic response to allergens like pollen and dust. Eating less/or no sugar …

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FAST START Check and correct your at-desk working posture Do some McKenzie neck exercises Learn to relax DETAILS With many of us in jobs requiring huge hours fused into position in front of the computer, neck tension and/or pain (‘tech neck’) has become endemic. Here’s some easy things you can do to help relieve tech …

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7 Simple Things That Can Help You Sleep Like a Baby. Get to sleep before 11pm Circadian rhythm is like a body clock which tells you when to sleep, rise and eat. Your body starts to produce melatonin (the sleep hormone) at around 9pm to start to get you ready for bed. Research also shows …

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Is Being In Pain Normal? Pain effects so many people that it begs the question: ‘Is being in pain normal?’ Common – yes.  Normal – no! We have patients who have been told by others that they will just have to put up with their pain and take pain-killers when they need it. But this …

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What Your Emotions Say About Your Health The emotions you mainly experience give some great insight into which of your organs may not be functioning as well as they should. Organs that don’t function as well as they should cause a range of physical and emotional symptoms. Specific organ dysfunction leads to a greater propensity …

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What Your Tongue Tells You About Your Health A quick look at your own tongue can tell you a lot about your health. It’s as easy as looking at it in the mirror and using the table below. Doctors of Chinese Medicine have for thousands of years have looked at the tongue to tell them …

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TEST YOURSELF: Are you too cold? The human body is designed to run at a certain temperature (37.0 degrees) and like any engine, if it runs too hot or too cold, it doesn’t work as well as it should. Most People are Too Cold We find that most people are too cold.  If your body …

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Chronic Constipation If you have chronic constipation it’s really frustrating.  You might feel bloating, hardness in the abdomen and altogether uncomfortable. You’ve tried prunes, bananas stool softeners from the chemist and nothing seems to work well.  You might find you have become dependent on laxatives to go, but even then you might only go once …

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6 Easy Ways to STOP Gastric Reflux If you suffer from reflux/heartburn, here’s 6 easy things you can do at home to stop it. In Chinese medicine terms you get gastric reflux because you have either too much heat in your stomach (so your reflux erupts like a volcano) or your digestion is too weak …

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Why Most Approaches to Dropping Those Extra Kilos FAIL In the long-run most approaches to weight loss fail because they don’t address the reasons why you put weight on in the first place. Which of these approaches to weight loss have you tried? Burning fat by exercising madly – gym-junkie, body challenge… Specific food diets …

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Normal or Common Have you ever been told that your scans, blood tests and even your health condition is ‘normal’ and then wondered ‘how can the fact that I am in pain/discomfort be normal?’ When a test comes back as ‘normal’ this often really means ‘common’.  In other words, so many people have it that …

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Acupuncture for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the catch-all term used to describe gastro-intestinal troubles that Western medicine cannot find a reason for.  We’ve had a lot of patients recently come to us with ‘IBS’ having been to their doctor, referred to a gastric specialist, been through gastroscopies and endoscopies and …

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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 …

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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 …

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Are You Finally Ready to Do Something About Your Health? Many people have had health issues for a long time.  But we soldier on and put up with pain, discomfort, tiredness, emotional problems, period problems… the list goes on. Before we know it, this ‘sub-health’ becomes normal to us and we have completely forgotten what …

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Turning Your Health Around Our clinic is best known for helping people with a long list of health problems return to good health. Health Problems We have people come to us with a significant number of health problems that have developed over a long period of time.  Good health is an absence of symptoms.  Symptoms …

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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 …

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New Year’s Resolutions for Your Liver If you were to ask your liver what its New Year’s resolutions are, what do you think it would say? Well, the answer depends what sort of year you had in the last 12 months.  Here’s a quick Chinese Medicine check to see if you have been kind to …

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What is an Asthma Thunderstorm Melbourne’s asthma thunderstorm in December caused respiratory havoc. In a five hour period, over 1900 emergency calls were made and proceeding the event almost 1000 people presented at hospitals around Melbourne with asthma or asthma-like symptoms.  Many had never had asthma before.  Some people even died from complications. Grass pollen …

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Benefits of Cupping Therapy Cupping regulates the blood and helps draw out toxins and pathogens through the pores of the skin but also has a range of other benefits. Cupping Increases Blood Circulation Due to the pull of the low pressure suction in the cups, the flow of blood in the vessels increases. Vessels are …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Cupping For Colds If you’ve got a cold, cupping is a great way to help you get rid of it.  If you feel a cold coming on, cupping may help. Cupping uses small glass cups and gentle heat or a pump to create suction.  The cups are placed in specific areas of your body creating suction …

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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 …

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Acupuncture and Medications In Chinese hospitals, Western and Chinese medicine are integrated to provide a ‘best of both worlds’ care for patients. Many people think they should get either medication care or acupuncture care, but they shouldn’t look at them in isolation. Acupuncture Plus Medications Medications can do a very good job at relieving symptoms, …

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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 …

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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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Acupuncture Momentum Acupuncture works on momentum.  Whilst on a very rare occasion I fix a patient in one treatment, most patients need a series of treatment to get better. Why Does Acupuncture Usually Require a Series of Treatments? Acupuncture works by stimulating and retraining the body’s natural repair mechanism.  When we hurt ourselves, the central …

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Does Acupuncture Hurt? This is the number one question in everyone’s mind when it comes to acupuncture – ‘does it hurt?’. The answer is – not really. For acupuncture to work properly, you have to feel the insert of the needle just a little.  It’s not unlike you pinching your skin on your arm with …

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Massage or Acupuncture? What’s the difference and which one is better? Massage improves blood circulation to help the body eliminate waste and increase nutrients to the area massaged; releases nerve compression (by the muscles) to help relive nerve pain; relaxes muscles; and feels great! Acupuncture Acupuncture does everything massage does, but in addition it: ‘reprograms’ …

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High Blood Pressure High blood pressure (hypertension) is when the pressure of the blood against your artery walls is enough to cause short or long-term health problems including heart failure, heart attack, aneurism, cardiomyopathy and stroke. In most cases of high blood pressure there are no symptoms. Primary (unexplained) hypertension is by far the most …

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Gut Flora Imbalances In your gut lives many different strains of bacteria (flora) – both beneficial and harmful to your health.  It is a symbiotic relationship – we need them as much as they need us. Normally, the beneficial bacteria outnumber the harmful bacteria for a healthy gut.  Sometimes, however, the bad guys get the …

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Parasites It is estimated that around one billion people have a parasitic infection. Many of these people are asymptomatic and show now symptoms – they seem to live in relative harmony with the parasite.  However, a proportion of these people are adversely affected by these parasites. The most common parasitic infections that cause health problems …

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The Chinese Medicine View of Body Temperature The body is not unlike a car engine.  If it runs too cold it doesn’t work very well, has trouble getting going and is weak.  If it runs too hot then it overheats, boils over and is prone to breaking down. A long time ago, Chinese medicine practitioners …

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Why Do I get IBS? Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the catch-all phrase assigned to gastrointestinal tract issues that can’t be fully explained. Symptoms include: bloating abdominal pain alternating constipation and diarrhoea mucous in the stool nausea While there is no specific explanation for IBS in Western medicine, in Chinese medicine IBS is caused by …

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What Can I Do About Hot Flushes? A hot flush is a sudden feeling of feverish heat often accompanied by sweating.  It most commonly occurs at night but can also happen during the day. In Chinese medicine terms you get hot flushes because you are simply too hot.  And you are too hot because as …

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Why Do I Keep Getting UTIs? Urinary tract infections are usually caused by E.coli bacteria which is commonly found in the digestive tract. Initial infection can occur through sexual transmission or poor hygiene particularly after going to the toilet. You may keep getting UTIs if the bacteria remains present in your urinary tract or you …

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Fitness and Health Are Not the Same Most of us think that if we are fit we are healthy.  But fitness and health are actually two separate things. You can be fit but still very unhealthy. Fitness is Not Health Movies, advertising and TV shows all depict physical fitness as health.  We have been brainwashed …

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Chronic Sinus Pain Got Chronic Sinus Pain? So many of my patients have got chronic sinus pain, sinus pressure and discomfort.   The Impacts of Chronic Sinusitis Sinus problems can cause facial pain from the sinus pressure, blocked nose, affect your sleep, escalate your snoring and cause you to wake up with a very dry …

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Why Are We So Tired All of the Time? So many people are just exhausted.  They struggle their way through the day and after taking care of dinner and the kids they either collapse into bed or in front of the TV.  No energy left for anything else – no exercise, no conversation and certainly …

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Why So Many People Have Anxiety Anxiety affects around 2 million Australians at any one time. 1 in 4 people will have an anxiety disorder at some stage of their lives with women having a higher incidence of 1 in 3*.  According to Google Trends, online searches on anxiety have increased 700% in the last …

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