Acupuncture in Bristol - Dr Charlotte

20/03/2024

ACUPUNCTURE FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH AND BEYOND CANCER
Many more people are surviving cancer and are able to lead long and healthy lives. However, after treatment ends many people are left with physical and emotional problems resulting from cancer itself or from the treatments used to eradicate it. This is the time when acupuncture can be really helpful: acupuncture cannot cure cancer but it can help people recover and find their way back to the life they once had.
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23/11/2022

Standing up to viruses: acupuncture can strengthen your defences.
Winter coughs and colds are nowadays talked about in terms of the virus or bacterium that has infected us. But now is a good time to remember that our bodies have inbuilt defences against infections and that when these defences are strong, we can generally fend off infections and stay well. Acupuncture, based on the theory of Chinese medicine, is an effective way of strengthening our defensive energy.

Winter coughs and colds are nowadays talked about in terms of the virus or bacterium that has infected us. The Covid pandemic has put viruses centre stage – we recognise pictures of them, give them…

21/08/2021

Acupuncture – evidence from my practice
During lockdown I analysed all of my acupuncture notes for the last 5yrs – who I treated, what problems, number and types of treatment, and to what extent they did, or didn’t, benefit. I have treated 134 patients in my Clifton practice. Two thirds of them were women and nearly half of them were over 60 years old. Most people had less than ten treatments, but I see a third of them more often than this - over a longer period for long-term illness....

During lockdown I analysed all of my acupuncture notes for the last 5yrs – who I treated, what problems, number and types of treatment, and to what extent they did, or didn’t, benefit. I have treat…

13/12/2020

‘Long Covid’, or ongoing severe symptoms following an acute Covid infection, remains a distressing problem and one that Western Medicine struggles to understand and treat. Recent research suggests that it may be due to an over-reaction of our immune system, which produces persistent antibodies that attack our own body systems rather than the virus . These ‘autoantibodies’ are a feature of other diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, so their effects are something that I am used to treating....

‘Long Covid’, or ongoing severe symptoms following an acute Covid infection, remains a distressing problem and one that Western Medicine struggles to understand and treat. Recent research suggest…

13/06/2020

Are you one of the people who are finding it hard to recover from Covid-19 – maybe with many variable symptoms and extreme exhaustion? What a confusing infection! Some people barely know they have it, others become critically ill and now a different group of people are describing severe longer-term symptoms. While Covid-19 is new to us, I regularly use acupuncture to treat people with similar longer term illness, characterised by low physical and mental energy and a confusing jumble of symptoms. [ 195 more words ]

Are you one of the people who are finding it hard to recover from Covid-19 – maybe with many variable symptoms and extreme exhaustion? What a confusing infection! Some people barely know they have …

31/03/2020

Defend yourself against coronavirus, Covid-19 - help from Chinese medicine

Chinese medicine has a recorded history of over two thousand years of combating epidemics in China and beyond, with acupuncture playing a vital role alongside herbal medicine. Today in China it is used alongside Western medicine in most hospitals and evidence from Wuhan and elsewhere suggests it still has an important part to play. Chinese medicine understands the health effects of an infection by a virus such as coronavirus in terms of the balance between your own energy and constitutional strength and the potential harmful effects of the virus. [ 455 more words ]

Chinese medicine has a recorded history of over two thousand years of combating epidemics in China and beyond, with acupuncture playing a vital role alongside herbal medicine. Today in China it is …

29/10/2018

Autumn – the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – is also the time when our lungs need our help the most. Maybe you have a tendency for colds to go onto your chest, or have asthma or other chronic lung disease. Or maybe you just want to stay well and be able to get on with life. For all of us, the following information about breathing exercises and diet will help us understand how to care for ourselves. [ 515 more words ]

Autumn – the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – is also the time when our lungs need our help the most. Maybe you have a tendency for colds to go onto your chest, or have asthma or other chr…

08/08/2018

Shingles is an extremely painful rash and ‘flu like illness, caused by the chickenpox virus (more details here). Most people who have shingles seek advice and treatment from their GP but acupuncture also has a lot to offer. When the rash first appears, acupuncture can relieve some of the pain very quickly. More often, I treat people who are having continuing pain and illness after the worst of the rash has gone – so-called post-herpetic neuralgia.[ 421 more words ]

Shingles is an extremely painful rash and ‘flu like illness, caused by the chickenpox virus (more details here). It is due to a re-activation of a previous infection. Most people who have shingles…

09/07/2018

As our summer heatwave continues you may be feeling some of the problems with overheating: such as tiredness, irritability, restless sleep, headaches, and poor concentration. When it is the weather that is hot, we can usually find a way of cooling down; but for some people the heat comes from inside their bodies. Then they may experience these symptoms of overheating but not know why, or what to do about it. [ 381 more words ]

As our summer heatwave continues you may be feeling some of the problems with overheating: such as tiredness, irritability, restless sleep, headaches, and poor concentration. When it is the weather…

04/04/2018

Irritable bowel syndrome means different things to different people. You may have a lot of pain, bloating and wind and/or constipation or diarrhoea, or both. Maybe you sometimes have a very urgent need to go to the toilet- something that can lead to a lot of anxiety when travelling or in social situations. Maybe your symptoms keep you awake at night, or maybe they are worse after food, or cause you a lot of nausea. [ 351 more words ]

Irritable bowel syndrome means different things to different people. You may have a lot of pain, bloating and wind and/or constipation or diarrhoea, or both. Maybe you sometimes have a very urgent …

23/12/2017

Pregnancy can be a wonderful time, full of energy and joy, but sometimes problems threaten to spoil the full enjoyment of the event. Maybe everyone else is celebrating your pregnancy but morning sickness is making you feel like death warmed up. Or you are low and tired due to anaemia and the iron pills cause you constipation. Or headaches mount up and you don’t want to take your normal painkillers. [ 517 more words ]

Pregnancy can be a wonderful time, full of energy and joy, but sometimes problems threaten to spoil the full enjoyment of the event. Maybe everyone else is celebrating your pregnancy but morning si…

05/11/2017

Each acupuncture point has a whole range of different effects. This is one reason why acupuncture can treat a number of conditions at once and can be personalised to each individual. So it is not a question of choosing one acupuncture point for a particular health problem, in the way that a Western medicine drug is designed to treat one problem. [ 449 more words ]

Each acupuncture point has a whole range of different effects. This is one reason why acupuncture can treat a number of conditions at once and can be personalised to each individual. So it is not a…