The Acupuncture Council of Ireland carried out a survey on their members in 2012, and reported that Fertility and pregnancy issues were  a main reason why both men and women attend an acupuncturist for help.  This can be by couples who are having difficulty conceiving but are not yet ready to attend an IVF clinic. It can be by couples who want a ‘natural medicine’ approach or couples for whom IVF has failed and those who do not fulfill the...

I love hard facts just the same as anyone else, and here is the best testimonial I have received from anyone to date regarding the power of acupuncture to regulate the hormonal system. This lady kept a diary of her bloods before and after coming to me. She started acupuncture in mid June and by August she had moved out of a phase of not ovulating to a phaze where she was clearly ovulating. She took nothing else. No herbs, pharmaceuticals...

Did you know that PMT/PMS otherwise described as the occurrence of premenstrual physical and psychological changes that women complain about was first mentioned in the writings of Hippocrates in the fourth century BC? Today, premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is still a poorly understood collection of up to 150 cyclical symptoms, that can cause on occasions a range of bearable to severe psychological and physical distress. The psychological symptoms...

I read today with some delight that it is predicted that Ireland is heading for a wonderful summer with temps of up to 30 degrees or more from July!!! This got me thinking about Chinese medicine and how it has a unique category called “Summer treatment of Winter conditions” or “Dong Bing Xia Zhi”  Dong (winter) Bing (disease) Xia (summer) Zhi (treatment). This is a treatment that strengthens the yang energy in the summer in...