You should be vibrant & resilient
Your body is designed to feel fantastic.
Your wellbeing may have been knocked off balance by stress or overwork, injuries or illness, trauma or life experiences, or inbuilt constitutional challenges.
Acupuncture aims to bring you back to balance.
And Chinese medicine is concerned with your ben as well as your biao, the roots as well as the symptoms of your current state of health.
Five Elements & TCM
Jessica will diagnose and treat you using the frameworks of both Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which looks at how you are, and Five Element Acupuncture, which looks more at who you are, from a constitutional perspective.
Jessica’s latest articles
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Acupuncture in pregnancy
Lots of pregnant ladies contact me to ask about acupuncture to promote labour, and to check whether I offer acupuncture during pregnancy, which I’m happy to say I do. Often people mention that another health professional has suggested it to them, and it is great to see a growing awareness of acupuncture in pregnancy. How…
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Acupuncture for cardiac arrhythmias
Heart disease is not new, although the Covid pandemic seems to have brought cardiac symptoms more to the fore among my patients, including sometimes in younger people. In rare cases covid vaccinations have caused myocarditis and pericarditis, inflammation of heart tissue and the membrane surrounding the heart, mostly in men under 40. And more generally,…
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Traditional Chinese medicinal bleeding (blood-letting) for high blood pressure
Blood-letting might not sound like a modern treatment for high blood pressure, but this element of traditional Chinese medicine is starting to receive some feedback from up to date scientific research. High blood pressure (hypertension) High blood pressure is not ideal. Even if you’re not feeling any symptoms like headaches or blurred vision, it can…