Aquilia Acupuncture

25/03/2025

Great CPD for acupuncturists and herbalists at the Taiwan Academy of Traditional Medicine London and Manchester with online lectures and discussions available. There is so much support and care in the form of evidence based practices, diet and herbal medicines. Acupuncturists if you are interested in CPD postpartum care or training to become a herbalist the UKATCM are now open for applications for the 2025 intake. www.uktatm.ac💖

14/02/2025

Great write up about acupuncture and our work at Aquilia Acupuncture in Health and Wellness of Stamford Living. Thank you ☺️

14/02/2025

Nice memory of our training in China post graduating with a BSc Hons in Chinese Medical Acupuncture at the Univeristy of Lincoln 2005. We were at Guangdong Province Second Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated with Guangzhou University in 2008. This photo also got me thinking about terms we have become familiar with or boxed into over time: Complementary Medicine, Traditional, Western and Eastern Medicine, Integrated Healthcare, Amalgamated, etc. When really, in the UK, a good way of looking at it is as Diversified Healthcare. Diversified healthcare options. Just a thought... 💕

27/01/2025

So nice to to have had the opportunity to meet and treat a fertility advocate that applies her expertise and advanced qualifications in the mental health arena to address the needs, issues, and challenges people face undergoing fertility. .flo wellness club and watch this space for international reach! Congratulations on your house move, and wishing you all the best with your future treatments. Keep me updated. Thank you so much for the shout out, I’ve just arrived home after my clinic shift.

19/01/2025

We had some lovely messages last week coming through. It’s great to know patients are on cloud 9! We do love all the feedback we receive and to know you are so happy to have achieved milestones that were thought to not be reachable. For me as her acupuncturist I was grateful and pleased to provide our expertise and care for sisters! Several years ago I helped her sister fulfil her fertility, and helped her achieve her family hopes and now her younger sister who also unfortunately had experienced fertility issues. 💖

02/01/2025

Starting Feb 🤱

CPD at your finger tips designed for busy acupuncture practitioners and herbalists that goes beyond the fertility journey, and early pregnancy support into the postpartum period.

Master class by Dr Su Shan-Yu associate professor, and director of department of gynaecology and an attending frontline physician.

Zuo Yue Zi 坐月子 refers to postpartum rest, recovery, and nourishment to restore physical, and emotional well-being. Learn how to support your patients further by utilising historic traditional knowledge with modern day expertise and clinical practice.

New opportunity and easy accessibility to Dr. Su Shan-Yu online master classes.

Learn more about how to access Dr. Shan-Yu register your interest (link in the comment). 💖

21/11/2024

Endometriosis

It is great to see the treatment management of Endometriosis being advocated for in the House of Commons. Mr Speaker! I have a few things I’d like to say about the treatment management of Endometriosis

Endometriosis UK link to the British Acupuncture Council, and its members. This is helpful as it raises awareness of the role of acupuncture as well as how to find an acupuncturist in the healthcare sector on an accredited register.

Research indicates that acupuncture can reduce pelvic and menstrual pain. In fact, the authors’ of this study conclude that acupuncture should be considered in the overall management of endometriosis.

Aquilia associate Sandra Bird BSc Hons, PGDip, MBAcC, RCHM took on an interesting complex case study this week. Whereby she will prescribe Chinese herbal medicine to help manage the localised and broad impact of the condition. At Aquilia we are research minded and look forward to reviewing other markers as part of a collective research process.

To find out more about the treatment management of endometriosis at Aquilia visit our website. There you can access an article about the treatment management of endometriosis authored by Lianne Aquilina at Aquilia. This article was also published at the Research Council for Complementary Medicine UK.

“Evidence Base Guidelines, Recent Research on Acupuncture for Endometriosis, and the Accredited Register of Acupuncturists in the Healthcare Sector”

Link in bio: https://aquiliaacupuncture.com/endometriosis-and-acupuncture/

20/11/2024

Subfertility and failed IVF treatments can create distress, frustration, overwhelm, darken and overcast the days, months and years of people lives who are struggling to conceive. Due to this Olivia thought it may never happen but it did! It’s a beautiful day, and look at this gorgeous baby. “Hi Lianne! Just wanted to share our happy news… Baby was born with an impressive pair of lungs. We are sleep deprived and deliriously happy as a family. Thank you for helping this to happen, forever grateful xx. In Batch 52 for coffee right now and thought of you :-)”🌸 To read more about our patient experience and the expert work we do in the fertility sector click the link in bio.

15/07/2024

Cuddles are the best! Patient’s can think they owe their healthcare professionals the world for our care and expertise but they really don’t. To have an occupation as a specialist acupuncturist working independently to help people with fertility problems conceive naturally where possible or in an integrated healthcare system that supports the creation families is just the best thing. 20 years plus and I still really love my job and being sent photos like this 🤗🌸. “Thank you Lianne helping us conceive our beautiful baby girl. We owe you and all of our team everything. Lots of love xx”

06/07/2024

“Hello Lianne I’ve been meaning to message you - you did some acupuncture for me just under a year ago well our daughter appeared in February so thank you for giving us our little miracle xx”

I received this message the other day, with a beautiful photo. I had to go back to my patient file as it had been a while since I had contact with her and she also had a different surname (she had also got married!).

This patient had sadly suffered four miscarriages, had tests and investigations but didn’t have much of a plan and was feeling despair. She sought acupuncture. I diagnosed cold, spleen qi xu and kidney yang xu (common presentations found in recurrent miscarriage, and early pregnancy loss).

It’s fairly straightforward the treatment plan (although takes many years of specialist training to understand the health model):
Warm cold🥶 🥰
Strengthen the qi of the spleen 💪
Super boost other fertility “energies” such as kidney Yang 💫
Regulate emotions 😳😵‍💫🫣😫 so that she felt more like this 😊🥰🌸 and da da there is a mama!

Acupuncture is more than “blood flow to the ovaries.” 😉 Just saying…

04/07/2024

“I would thoroughly recommend Lianne’s services. I honestly believe that my pregnancy would not have been successful without her help. Having previously had miscarriages, I was very nervous about my fertility and my pregnancy. Having read that acupuncture can be beneficial, I gave it a go. It was a decision I did not regret. From her obvious needle skill to her kind, warm personality and listening, I was instantly at ease and left each appointment feeling very satisfied. With such experience with pregnancy-related scenarios, Lianne both reassured and ably assisted me throughout the process, and I clearly saw and felt the benefits of her work through my healthy baby girl 😀.”


Ageing fertility can be a daunting challenge, with increased time to conception, low number of follicles, poor ovarian response. After a lot of work and cost, there remains low probability of success, —all while more time passes and stress and anxiety increase. Acupuncture, through several mechanisms, (although still not robustly medically understood), has been shown to optimize embryo quality and blastocyst implantation capacity. The skilled acupuncturist tailors the treatment precisely to the individual’s presentation. According to traditional Chinese medicine, ageing fertility correlates with qi, blood and jing as a baseline. It is essential to point out that while there is a holistic approach to the mind, body and emotion, there is also a specialist diagnostic approach and diagnostic precision based on a different view of health and illness; we apply both. Want to know what your precise pattern is and whether we can modify this? Send me a message or book an initial consultation. Link in bio.

15/04/2024

We have brothers! I hope they get along in the future 😊. It was, as it always is, a privilege to help this couple fulfil their fertility and to hear of the safe arrival of this cute little boy, the newest member of the family. Especially pleased to hear how supported she felt, that at one of the most difficult times (as IVF can often be for people) she managed to have some smiles and laughter along the way! “This comes with HUGE thanks to you for your wonderful treatment. I whole heartedly believe in your work and you certainly made the whole process as enjoyable as it can be. I feel very fortunate to have had two successes. If anyone mentions they are going through IVF you are recommended! Really hope you are well. Take care, love x ❤️🌸

11/04/2024

Dear acupuncturists, friends and family, here is a blog I wrote that went live today to raise awareness of the condition endometriosis, and the treatment management of it. 🌸

Around 190 million women globally suffer from endometriosis with an estimated figure of 1.5 million women here in the UK experiencing problems.

There is no cure for endometriosis, treatment aims to partially or temporarily reduce pain.

To read more, and to hear what I had to say about acupuncture click the link.

Evidence Base Guidelines, Recent Research on Acupuncture for Endometriosis, and the Accredited Register of Acupuncturists in the Healthcare Sector. Holly:“To be told by a healthcare professional that potentially I may require donor eggs for IVF, due to my stage 4 endometriosis, was a shock. That w...