Nourishing Your Body

Nourishing Your Body A Chinese Medicine Approach to Healthy Eating Chinese Medicine offers a holistic approach to nutrition that goes far beyond counting calories or macronutrients. It views food as medicinal and focuses on supporting your body’s natural digestive processes and maintaining energetic balance.   The Foundation: Understanding Digestion as Energy Creation Chinese medicine sees … Read more

Jing 精

Jing 精 According to Chinese medicine an important aspect of your health is regulated and maintained by your jing 精. It must be said, at the outset, that Chinese medicine often doesn’t translate easily into English. We don’t have the concepts, so we don’t have the equivalent words. As a result, translations often use words … Read more

Basal body temperature (BBT) charting

Basal body temperature (BBT) charting Your basal body temperature is the lowest temperature attained by your body, at rest It tells us about your body’s metabolism and of changes through your cycle, determined by your hormones Generally we expect a temperature of 36.2 to 36.5 celsius during the first half of your cycle and then … Read more

Embryo Transfer Acupuncture

Embryo Transfer Acupuncture The time between embryo transfer (ET) and doing a pregnancy test can feel like a long time. After all the waiting, medication and scans, you will inevitably want to make sure that you are doing everything you can to help the process and that you don’t do anything that may potentially cause … Read more

Ovulation symptoms | How do I know?

Ovulation symptoms | How do I know? A common question in my fertility acupuncture practice is whether or not there are specific ovulation symptoms and how to know when you ovulating. In other words, when is the best time to try to conceive? The answer is that everyone is subtly different. For some people recognising … Read more