What are Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) hands-on healing methods? “Acupuncture” inserts thin needles on Acupoints to stimulate the flow of body energy Qi. Chinese Tui Na massage (and its offshoot “Shiatsu”) moves body energy and blood flow much deeper through channels or “meridians”. Originally trained in acupuncture 24 years ago, I found it narrow-based on treating some body injuries and pains. A wider “Whole-Body” or Holistic approach is needed to treat serious body injury, mental fatigue or internal body imbalance.
Get away from high-publicity drugs or surgery that do not address root causes. Shiatsu is unlike a skin surface shallow massage, I treat the deep source of pain through intense body joint movement. From long-standing injuries, back pains, sciatica to migraines – I treat bad sleep, indigestion and deep-rooted emotional problems too. Restore your optimal musculo-skeletal range of motion without the pain, and regain nervous system balance to think and perform better.
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Diabetes is a health worry globally, growing from 10% adults in 2010 to about 12.5% (one in eight) by 2040. It may even include you. These rises some say come from the rise of sugar and "junk food" consumption, with aging populations in most countries. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) sees diabetes, or "Xiao Ke" disease, stemming from imbalances in the Stomach, Liver, Kidney and Large Intestine - the TCM organs that I work with daily in my patients.
Chinese TCM views diabetes as a big imbalance with symptoms like thirst, excess urination, overweight, tiredness, and sugar cravings. TCM works on these imbalances, to restore body harmony and keep proper blood sugar levels. I apply Acupressure (Shiatsu) on acupoints to regulate Qi energy flow, opening "blocked" organ meridians for blood and Qi energy flows. TCM`s holistic medical approach of a balanced diet, regular physical exercise and stress management also help in combating diabetes. Try TCM out.
I have a medical duty to the local community for treating illnesses aches and other injuries. I also treat professional executives and elite athletes who work high-pressure jobs with intense travel and business schedules. I was pleased to treat Mark Woodforde, a 17-time Grand Slam tennis champion winning $8.5m total prize money, during a recent Wimbledon season. His letter to me I show with his kind permission.
When I get asked what I do in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), I usually reply that I balance out the body`s internal organs to regain health. These are linked by meridians or networks channeling blood and energy (Qi) flowing throughout the body, and I diagnose and treat illnesses by pressing "Acupoints" along the meridians help the patient. You will hear me or other TCM practitioners say your bloodflow or energy is "blocked" causing you pains and illness along the body soft tissue like the Sciatic nerve (pictured in red).
A modern example of Acupressure or Shiatsu usage of my fingers releases "stuck" Sciatic nerves and soft tissue to give pain relief. Think of it as relieving pain when the Sciatic nerve or Hot Dog sausage is trapped between the hard bun of bone and rigid muscle.
It is interesting to see me releasing severe back pains like Sciatica, using a culinary example. But when Western drugs and surgery fail to help the patient - basic TCM medicine can be better healing at times than modern technology and drugs. Stop pain when your nerves get squeezed in a sausage!
"What`s going on afoot" generally means that something is happening, or at least is in progress somehow. When you`re looking at a foot, leg or back it`s likely that the degree of human suffering is not visible. When a patient in intense agony in their leg, back, shoulder, neck comes - it`s not immediately obvious what remedial actions are needed. She had Naproxen, Ibuprofen, Codeine and half a dozen painkillers already. But really, she`s suffering lack of sleep/ appetite and some debilitating painful effects 3months on - with little improvement in sight.
Starting my Chinese TCM examination often involves a large degree of abdominal and internal organ investigation seeing damage in Lung and Intestines; before I set work on the body Acupoints. I`d say, "actions are afoot" as I correct the 40mm difference in leg lengths to 3mm difference now. There`s still more Shiatsu acupressure needed next week; but if she can sleep and move her shoulders and back better, and reduce her frozen shoulder / Sciatica pains - that`s a big health gain for now.
A patient suffered painful neck, shoulders, back and legs for years. Her "natural" posture slanted left with right foot always "up". This 30mm imbalance sets up spinal, shoulder, hip, leg, foot aches. Some doctor`s painkiller drugs might help for a few days, so finally she came to me for hands-on treatment as a remedy.
Chinese TCM / Shiatsu gives no drugs; intense pressure on the Acupoints so she now walks better and in less pain. Chinese TCM is not for every health problem, but if you`ve seen your physio, GP doctor or even an expensive consultant expert for years without success - why not try something different? In some cases, I welcome patients who have started to lose hope about their musculo-skeletal pains and injuries.
Many doctors and physios now “see” their patients remotely on ZOOM PC or iPhone meetings, then give painkiller drugs for (say) agonizing backache. This may not work as they miss the true cause of the aches. This week I see my patient, face-to-face, then lie them on the plinth. Why they suffer painful bad neck, shoulders, back, legs and hips can be that they are lop-sided in posture. Patients need to straighten out their spines and as attached limbs make them lean to one side, something they may not be aware all their lives.
Here a sideways slant created spinal, back and hip pains that go back years. Using hands-on Chinese TCM / Shiatsu on their body acupoints, I do my best to "straighten out" slanted spines all the time. This reduces the pain and the slanted pressure on one side. Over following weeks, I get them less lop-sided so their posture can return to the vertical and suffer less daily pain.
I often advise my patients to go outside and take a fresh breath. Go out and see someone new - or very old. Still, if I said I was being stalked by a 30m long monster, maybe I`m not that wrong. Fern the diplodocus hung around 160m years ago in the Jurassic period. For an old gal, she`s sprightly enough to hang over me in south Kensington on one of my rare days off from work.
Sorrel: This is a very useful plant that has many culinary uses, adding several health benefits to your daily diet. While it`s a spinach cousin and a good source of vitamins A & C, minerals in it abound like: iron, magnesium, and potassium.
Sorrel`s antioxidant and diuretic properties are said to clean the body, while further claims are it reinforces your immunity, digestive and heart functions. Try it out as in Sorrel soup that I`m eating!
A patient P came in severe back pain (Sciatica) to my CCS London hospital clinic for urgent treatment. He`d came in hobbling crouched down, and in agony despite Painkiller (PK) drugs. I felt his acupoints were "stuck" while muscles were locked in pain. So, with body manipulation and pressure on the acupoints, I set relieving his pains. Good news: after 60mins intensive Chinese TCM and Shiatsu treatment, I succeeded in releasing 66% of his Sciatica pain so he could walk away rather pain-free.
Now, 9 months on, despite occasional pains, he`s walking and cycling without agony, but can wake up with morning back pains. Realistically, with TCM / Shiatsu he needs a remedial treatment (say) every 2-3 weeks (depending on Sciatica severity). But, he`s taken this route to better health, instead of suffering most of his life in pain. He continues to work pain-free, not walking hunchback or taking any drug painkillers - that`s real progress.
When treating patients while using Chinese TCM medicine, we always work on the whole person. If you just give patients drugs and surgery, you’re unlikely to heal them holistically. We treat the entire person, so there`s lots to examine and to fix using the Mind, Body and Spirit (MBS) schema. Healing, health and even happiness are what we`re trying to give. I`m very glad to receive my 50th five-star Google review from happy patients.
This news came on my website yesterday from a patient K who I treated 3 times so far. She revisits painful trauma from childhood and family and ex-boyfriends. This is what she said about my treatments so far.
As Chinese professional medical staff working on human beings, we tend to understand the idea of a person being a complex union or balance of Mind, Body and Spirit (MBS). Western medicine is starting to realize that there are real limits to hard pharmaceutical drugs and surgery in medical effectiveness, and some modern techniques damage this MBS balance. If you want to discuss this subject with me and see how it links to the Chinese acupoints on your body and mind, please feel free to arrange a treatment.
It`s been my honour this week to treat Scott Davidoff of USA in my clinic. He`s been on ATP and WTA tennis since 2002, coaching players to win over 10 Grand Slam tournament titles. Scott has served as Olympic coach in 2008 and 2012 (India), and 2016 (China) teaching the next generation of international tennis players and champions. I have been most happy to help him out with relief on his sports aches and injuries using my Chinese TCM and Shiatsu hand-on healing methods.
Acupuncture points to use when feeling Throat pains or lost voice.
Sore throat, difficulty breathing, loss of voice are problems that people commonly experience. I find acupoints TB-17 & SI-17 are useful for treating throat pains, tension or throat/ voice issues. I found the patient too tense and needing my finger pressure on the acupoints to lower nervous Qi energy and lessen muscle tension calming him down. In addition, he has Kyphosis or a Spine leaning forward 15 degrees too far - this increases the neck weight falling down, so neck muscles tense up around the throat, almost strangling him. I open up the TB & SI meridians, lowering neck pain, clearing the throat and opening up the larynx, enabling the patient to speak more readily so he can restart his normal social and family life.
Papa said that you grow older and get injured or plain "rusty", it`s time to unblock your body stiffness and pains. Chinese TCM or Shiatsu applies pressure on targeted acupoints to
relieve blood or Qi blockages. Chinese TCM medical applications work to unblock the blood and fluid circulation system whenever the blockages hurt your bone joints, ligaments/ tendons or muscles.
People rarely ask their GP doctor the harmful risks of side-effects in prescription drugs. As a Chinese TCM doctor, I see the dangers patients face taking too many prescription medications by feeling their internal organs “hardened” or “stuck” during my examination. Sadly, medical drugs may have unpredicted bad effects on another disease or ailment that a patient already has. Ironically, the healthcare medication efforts can make the patient a drug-addict or very ill. The complex doctor-patient interactions and hospital politics in getting instant health progress evidence can lead to unrealistic demands and more drastic medications.
By luck or fate, I deal with a lot of older people suffering with multiple chronic conditions. One last week was prescribed 10 medications to manage each ailment or disease; another was given 19 different drugs. Assuming one pill per day, that`s 700 tablets p.a he`d been prescribed for 20 years; so 14,000 pills. Successive doctors don`t seem to strike drugs off, or to reduce dosage; sometimes seeing little progress on a disease, they give the patient more drugs. Paradoxically, additional medications may be prescribed to counter the harmful effects of their current drugs, which worsened the problem. I never prescribe drugs in Chinese TCM, although I know some work. It`s just that we need to realize that a useful "go to" drug can have real limitations and occasional harmful side-effects. Remember your body has limits!
