Acupuncture

Traditional Acupuncture with Harry Sweetman

What is Acupuncture?

Acupuncture is the gentle insertion of hair-fine needles into specific points on the body to stimulate the flow of Qi (pronounced chee), or natural healing energy.

How can Acupuncture help?

Acupuncture can be effective in a wide variety of conditions through its power to stimulate our own healing response.

Acupuncture often excels in those areas in which conventional medicine comes up short. Chronic disease, pain control, and stress-related disorders are just three specialties.

Acupuncture treatment may be used along with other medical care to great advantage. It has been used for pain control after other medical or dental procedures, for improving healing, and to lessen the side-effects of some drugs, including chemotherapy.

What to expect

Your initial visit will last for about 75-90 minutes and will include a treatment. Harry will gather information on your symptoms and your treatment to date: your medical and family history; your systems or functions (eg sleep, appetite, digestion etc.); your physical condition, (eg distribution of body heat and the condition of your skin), take your pulse and look at your tongue. Subsequent visits take 45 minutes.

Treatment is the process of re-establishing the energy balance, stimulating or reducing the flow of energy in a specific pathway.

Acupuncture is drug-free so you avoid side effects or dependency.

Does it hurt?

Most people are surprised to learn that acupuncture needles are very thin. As many as fifteen acupuncture needles can fit into one conventional hypodermic needle.

Acupuncturists attain a high level of skill in gently placing these tiny needles into the skin with a minimum of discomfort

Treatments

Acupuncture is not a miracle cure, but a gentle and effective therapy which, for best results, requires a course of treatment.

Generally you will come weekly to begin with and then, as you improve, you will come less frequently. The speed of improvement varies more according to the individual than the label of the complaint.

If you wish to talk to Harry prior to booking an appointment, please ring the centre.