What is Acupuncture?

Acupuncture is the gentle insertion of incredibly fine needles into specific points on the body to stimulate circulation, reduce inflammation and promote the body’s own healing response. Traditional Chinese Medicine is a ‘root cause’ medicine which looks at the whole person and treats all the body’s systems as interconnected and interdependent.

Western science has different theories to explain the mechanism of how acupuncture works and as we discover more about how the body’s processes work these theories are modified. We know now that when a needle is inserted into the body it creates a response in the tissue layers which affects neurochemicals and neurotransmitters including serotonin and dopamine.

The Ancient Chinese believed that there are meridians running through the human body, sometimes just below the surface and sometimes very deeply through an organ. In Traditional Chinese Medicine change and healing is enabled by needling into the acupuncture points which lie on these meridians.