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Acupuncture: East Meets West

by Dr Richard Halvorsen

Some practitioners in the West have questioned the necessity of practising acupuncture exclusively as traditionally taught. Are there other ways of using it that could be equally o...

Development of Professional Acupuncture in the UK

by Nick Pahl

The founding of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC) 20 years ago was a significant moment for professional acupuncture. It helped create a confident, positive profession of aroun...

First Aid and Master Acupuncture

by Michael James Edmondson

A friend recently shared a link - how to survive a heart attack when you are alone - on Facebook, which got me to thinking this; how many people know that there are acupuncture firs...

Fractal Acupuncture

by Dr Zude Ye and Zoe Desmond

We are writing to introduce the fractal needle, a new therapy developed by Dr Zude Ye, based on the widespread, and age-old technique of puncturing the body with a needle.

Getting the Needle - Reminiscences of an early UK Acupuncture Student

by Arthur E Bromley

The author looks back at the trials and tribulations, and many amusing moments, during his three-year acupuncture training course, which he commenced in 1966 at the very first Acup...

High Touch Acupressure

by Heidi Ritz

This ancient Japanese healing art form utilises gentle touch on specific acupressure points, over clothing, to stimulate the body's own innate healing capacity. It works on the phy...

Shen Tao Acupressure

by Eliana Harvey

Shen Tao holds a special place in the spectrum of therapies that go under the heading of Acupressure.

The Pleasures and Pains of Acupuncture

by Sam Hart

I first came into contact with acupuncture because I'd broken my back in a snowboarding accident a couple of months before. I'd been hurtling down a slope when I caught the wrong e...

Traditional Acupuncture: Embodying the Emotions

by Anna-May Silvestro and assisted by John Hesselworth

The title of this article came out of a conversation I had with a GP in Leamington Spa. We were discussing the treatment of a person diagnosed as having a manic depressive illness....