ETON ROAD ACUPUNCTURE

Acupuncture is an ancient system of medicine originating in China. The earliest records of its use date back five thousand years. Doctors visiting China brought acupuncture to the west in the twentieth century. They were amazed to see operations performed on fully conscious patients using acupuncture as an anaesthetic. Since then, acupuncture's popularity in the west has grown rapidly. Over two million treatments are currently given each year in Britain alone. According to the ancient Chinese, vital energy (chi) travels through your body along pathways called meridians. When you are in good health the flow of chi is smooth and uninterrupted, but when illness strikes this flow is disturbed.

Acupuncturists seek to redress this imbalance by needling precise points along the meridian pathways to unblock and balance the patient's own energy and stimulate the body's innate ability to heal itself. Five Element Acupuncture works by stimulating your body's natural ability to heal itself. This means that anyone can benefit. Five Element Acupuncture treats you, not just your symptoms. The aim is to restore harmony and balance. As this happens your symptoms will ease. The only side effect being a greater sense of wellbeing.

We believe that Five Element Acupuncture can help you reach your best health potential. As Acupuncture is a preventative form of medicine it can increase your resistance to colds and flu. Our patients find that having regular treatment they find that they get ill less often and recover faster. In Five Element acupuncture we treat the whole person and therefore do not distinguish between physical complaints and emotional problems. This means that the treatment of physical problems also effects the way you feel in yourself. By treating the cause of the imbalance, we will help alleviate the symptoms. Acupuncture helps you to avoid, or cope better with the stress you encounter in your life.