Aspire Acutherapy

01/01/2026

Happy New Year Everyone may 2026 bring you all health happiness and peace

24/12/2025

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy and Peaceful New Year

21/12/2025

Winter Solstice Blessings.
Winter Solstice symbolising the transition from the year's darkest day towards brighter times ahead is celebrated worldwide.
In China it is marked by Dongzhi Festival a cherished moment in the Chinese calendar, Traditionally marked by joyful family reunions, honouring ancestors, and sharing warming dishes like sweet or savoury dumplings. Dongzhi is all about togetherness and welcoming good fortune as the days begin to lengthen once more.

22/11/2025

09/10/2025

Mid Autumn Festival Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节), also called Moon or Mooncake festival is
a harvest festival, and the second most important festival after the Chinese New Year. It is a public holiday in China.
It is celebrated on the night of the full moon on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar-solar calendar, corresponding to mid-September to early October. This year the festival falls on 6 October. It is a time for family reunions, gathering for dinners, worshiping the moon, lighting paper lanterns and eating moon cakes.
Moon cakes are traditional pastries filled with sweet or savoury fillings, they are round to represent the moon and often elaborately decorated.
Cards and decorations frequently show rabbits to represent the Jade Rabbit (Yutu) a legendary creature in Chinese folklore who lives on the moon with Chang’e the Moon Goddess. The Jade Rabbit is a central figure in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

05/10/2025

02/10/2025

Need an energy boost? Try Zusanli - (Stomach 36)
This point is located to the lateral side of the crest of tibia (shinbone) approximately 3 inches below the knee (see picture for location). A point on the stomach channel, it is used frequently for digestive problems. It is an Earth Element point. Earth element nourishes and supports life. Zusanli is a major point fortifying the Qi (vital energy) and blood of the whole body.
Renowned physician Qin Cheng-zu of the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE) declared that “from Zusanli all diseases can be treated’. The term li is variously interpreted as meaning a measure of distance or ‘to rectify’ reflecting the idea that stimulating this point will enable a person to walk an extra three miles even when exhausted.
If your stomach and digestive system is feels a ‘bit off’ or you are feeling slightly run down and generally fatigued try massaging Zusanli bilaterally (both sides) for about 10 minutes daily, but please always seek professional medical advice if symptoms become more serious or don’t resolve in a week or two. Zusanli is safe to use in pregnancy.

06/09/2025

Seasonal Acupuncture Supports Wellbeing.
Aligning acupuncture treatments with seasonal energies is a traditional way to maintain health, providing support at times of seasonal change, when our bodies are adjusting to alterations in temperature, light levels and humidity. A short course of 2 or 3 treatments around these times is an excellent was to strengthen the constitution. The times of the Spring and Autumn equinoxes, in March and September respectively, is particularly significant as this is when the energy balance switches from Yin to Yang (lengthening light in Spring) and Yang to Yin (increasing dark in Autumn). Some individuals will notice personal areas where adjustment becomes challenging, such as seasonal allergies and SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and if this you then treatment in the weeks prior to your known time of challenge is recommended.
Hormonal changes have evolved over thousands of years to align with seasons. A recent international large-scale study of health records found that human hormones, including those for growth, stress, and metabolism, exhibit seasonal patterns, with peaks in summer and an anti-phase (lower levels) in Winter and early Spring.
In most modern Western societies we are comparatively insulated from stresses our ancestors faced in the Winter/early Spring months such as cold and food shortages, but this comfort and security, while welcome has also led us away from the rhythms of the seasons, bringing new stresses such as waking and working in the dark when our bodies instinctively crave rest, and days spent indoors under artificial light. Acupuncture can help support us through all of this.

03/07/2025

How Acupuncture May Help Allergic Rhinitis.

Allergic Rhinitis, commonly known as Hay Fever affects around 10-40% of the population worldwide and can be seasonal or perennial (all year round). It is typically triggered by an allergic rection to substances such as pollen, dust, leaf mould and animal dander. Common symptoms are sneezing, nasal itching, nasal blockage, and watery nasal discharge. Other symptoms can include red, itchy tearing eyes, coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath, and systemic symptoms such as tiredness, fever, a pressure sensation in the head, and itchiness. The effect on sufferers ranges from mildly uncomfortable to chronically debilitating depending on the severity of the symptoms.
Medications such as antihistamines or corticosteroids can help control symptoms but do not cure the underlying condition.
Allergic rhinitis develops when an inhaled allergen adheres to the surface of mast cells (a type of white blood cell crucial to the immune system) which leads to a massive release of histamine, causing the inflammation and allergy symptoms. The body’s immune system is in effect overreacting to an external substance which is not a threat to wellbeing.
Acupuncture and traditional East Asian Medicine view Allergic Rhinitis as due to deficiency in the Wei Qi (defensive Qi) system, particularly involving the Lung and Kidney Qi which are most closely connected with breath, and retention of wind pathogen in the nose.
It is important to remember that in traditional acupuncture physical organs are part of much wider energy systems. A disharmony in Lung and Kidney Qi is not the same as Lung and/or Kidney organ pathology.
Acupuncture treatment involves treating both the symptoms and the root of the condition. In the case of perennial allergic rhinitis both are treated concurrently, for seasonal conditions in addition to treating symptoms when they occur it is beneficial to have constitutional treatments outside of, preferably before, the allergy season starts.
How May Acupuncture Help?
In general, acupuncture stimulates the nervous system resulting in biochemical changes that influence the body’s homeostatic (self-regulating) mechanisms. It stimulates the release of endorphins, other hormones and chemical messengers thus promoting physical and emotional well-being.
Research suggests acupuncture may help to relieve pain and congestion in people suffering with allergic rhinitis by: Reducing inflammation - promoting release of vascular and immune modulating factors. Regulating cytokines and IgE antibodies (mediators involved in immune activity). Enhancing natural killer cell activities and modulating the number and ratio of immune cell types. Increasing local microcirculation in affected areas, which aids dispersal of swelling.

13/06/2025