Erika Hunt Acupuncture & Naturopathy

02/11/2025

🎃 In the spirit of Halloween… let’s talk Pumpkin & Pumpkin Seeds in Chinese Medicine!

🌰 Pumpkin Seeds

Neutral, sweet & bitter

Expel worms & parasites

Tonify the Spleen for digestion

Used for motion sickness, nausea, fertility issues, impotence, swollen prostate & difficult urination

🎃 Pumpkin

Warm & sweet

Strengthens ST & SP for better digestion

Reduces inflammation & relieves muscular pain

Moves Qi & helps expel worms

Perfect seasonal food therapy for autumn! 🍂

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10/10/2025

10/09/2025

FREQUENT HEADACHES OR MIGRAINES?
Acupuncture offers evidence-based care to relieve pain, reduce tension and restore calm naturally.

September 8th to 12th is Irish Migraine Awareness Week

Acupuncture as a Therapeutic Treatment for Migraine

Evidence summary Migraine
Cochrane reviews are a specific type of systematic review, and two Cochrane reviews – one on acupuncture’s effectiveness for the prevention of tension-type headache (1), and another on acupuncture’s effectiveness for the prevention of episodic migraine (2), both concluded that acupuncture is effective for these conditions

1. Linde K, Allais G, Brinkhaus B, Fei Y, Mehring M, Shin BC, Vickers A, White AR. Acupuncture for the prevention of tension-type headache. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD007587
2. Linde K, Allais G, Brinkhaus B, Fei Y, Mehring M, Vertosick EA, Vickers A, White AR. Acupuncture for the prevention of episodic migraine. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016, Issue 6. Art. No.: CD001218