What would be treatment be like

You will be welcomed and encouraged to feel at ease and to express your concerns. Everything you say is confidential.

To establish a complete diagnosis for acupuncture, Jackie will ask questions concerning your health history and will take your pulse, look at your tongue and do a physical examination where necessary.

The acupuncture treatment itself is gentle – it uses a minimum of points and very fine needles.

Some treatments use only acupuncture. Often though, within a treatment there will be additional aspects such as massage or acupressure or techniques evolved from QiGong practice, to reinforce the acupuncture’s effects. Where it will be beneficial the Chinese therapy of warming points or cupping is used, and, occasionally, the more modern practice of electro-acupuncture.

The practice creates a warm, peaceful, environment where each individual’s capacity for natural, self-healing can be encouraged to thrive.