Gloria Else Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine Clinic

14/11/2025

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08/03/2024

23/11/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/21/acupuncture-relieves-back-and-pelvic-pain-during-pregnancy-study-suggests

Analysis shows significant benefits with no major side-effects for mother or baby but more trials needed ‘to confirm results’

25/11/2021

Fantastic news! Progesterone plays an important role in maintaining the gestational sac and preparing the endometrium for implantation.

The treatment could lead to 8,450 more babies being born each year in the UK, experts say.

08/09/2021

✨Expected Death ~ When someone dies, the first thing to do is nothing. Don't run out and call the nurse. Don't pick up the phone. Take a deep breath and be present to the magnitude of the moment.

There's a grace to being at the bedside of someone you love as they make their transition out of this world. At the moment they take their last breath, there's an incredible sacredness in the space. The veil between the worlds opens.

We're so unprepared and untrained in how to deal with death that sometimes a kind of panic response kicks in. "They're dead!"

We knew they were going to die, so their being dead is not a surprise. It's not a problem to be solved. It's very sad, but it's not cause to panic.

If anything, their death is cause to take a deep breath, to stop, and be really present to what's happening. If you're at home, maybe put on the kettle and make a cup of tea.

Sit at the bedside and just be present to the experience in the room. What's happening for you? What might be happening for them? What other presences are here that might be supporting them on their way? Tune into all the beauty and magic.

Pausing gives your soul a chance to adjust, because no matter how prepared we are, a death is still a shock. If we kick right into "do" mode, and call 911, or call the hospice, we never get a chance to absorb the enormity of the event.

Give yourself five minutes or 10 minutes, or 15 minutes just to be. You'll never get that time back again if you don't take it now.

After that, do the smallest thing you can. Call the one person who needs to be called. Engage whatever systems need to be engaged, but engage them at the very most minimal level. Move really, really, really, slowly, because this is a period where it's easy for body and soul to get separated.

Our bodies can gallop forwards, but sometimes our souls haven't caught up. If you have an opportunity to be quiet and be present, take it. Accept and acclimatize and adjust to what's happening. Then, as the train starts rolling, and all the things that happen after a death kick in, you'll be better prepared.

You won't get a chance to catch your breath later on. You need to do it now.

Being present in the moments after death is an incredible gift to yourself, it's a gift to the people you're with, and it's a gift to the person who's just died. They're just a hair's breadth away. They're just starting their new journey in the world without a body. If you keep a calm space around their body, and in the room, they're launched in a more beautiful way. It's a service to both sides of the veil.

Credit for the beautiful words ~ Sarah Kerr, Ritual Healing Practitioner and Death Doula , Death doula
Her original video link is here ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7mG0ZAym0w

Beautiful art by Columbus Community Deathcare
Always With Love

06/08/2021

A synopsis of the different acupuncture training requirements of the 5 main voluntary regulation bodies for acupuncture in the UK.

08/04/2021

New NICE guidance has been published recommending acupuncture as one of the main therapies for the treatment of primary chronic pain.

Chronic primary pain should be managed with exercise programmes, cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and acupuncture, NICE has said in guidance on the assessment and management of chronic pain.1 The antidepressants amitriptyline, citalopram, duloxetine, fluoxetine, paro...

05/01/2021

24/11/2020

Great article on how acupuncture can support you through your fertility journey.

Making the decision to start IVF can be a daunting one and fertility acupuncture can help support you both emotionally and physically. Fertility acupuncture treatments are specifically tailored to each stage of your IVF cycle.
Some research has shown that acupuncture can increase your chances of success:
**Acupuncture given with Embryo Transfer improves pregnancy and live birth rates
**Acupuncture improves pregnancy rate after ART
Collective experience is that acupuncture enables the body to return to normal balance and functioning, thus helping it to cope with the challenges of IVF.
Acupuncture works to support you in a number of different ways during IVF:
*Minimise the side effects of the drugs
*Increase the pelvic blood flow
*Balance the immune and nervous system
*Improve implantation rates
*Calm the mind
Many acupuncturists are members of the nationwide, Acupuncture Childbirth Team. If you are looking for someone locally to support you, a quick google will point you in the right direction.

10/11/2020

Great to see western medical technology validating acupuncture.

Acupuncture regulates the brain to improve human health according to research published in Autonomic Neuroscience.

03/10/2020

Good news that endometriosis is being diagnosed quicker.
💡New study from endometriosis researcher and acupuncturist Dr Mike Armour and colleagues
💡Women are seeking help sooner and diagnosis is happening quicker
💡ESHRE guidelines have helped
💡Diagnostic delays remain too long
💡Both women and doctors have tended to normalize severe period pain but awareness is increasing.
Open access https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73389-2