acupuncture in leeds

Friendly but professional treatment

Sue Dunham MBAcC has appointments for acupuncture and Chinese therapeutic massage (Tuina) at her home clinic in north Leeds

Call for a free telephone consultation

Qigong (Chinese exercise) tuition

Weekly evening class on Thursdays at Horsforth School from 15th January, 2009. For details and enrolment see www.horsfortheveningclasses.org.uk. Contact Sue for further information on the course content.

Qigong (pronounced chee gung) is the perfect exercise for cultivating health. Choose what is best for you:

• Evening class at Horsforth
• 1 to 1, 1 to 2 and 1 to 3 classes
• Consultancy work including taster qigong sessions tailored to the group

Contact Sue... for details.

Chinese medicine can help you

• restore your good health and keep it
• get relief from pain and other symptoms

and it is increasingly seen as a useful complement to Western medicine

Advice from the classics

Chinese medicine is a valuable source of ideas to help keep the body and mind healthy. Here is something that may help those who are feeling stressed or depressed about the year ahead. These are based on material from the excellent book on psycho-emotional aspects of Chinese medicine by Elisa Rossi.

Stress was defined by Seyle in 1976 as a non-specific response of the organism to every demand... The Chinese term for stress means literally a rope at full tension, it leaves no room for movement.   Emotions in Traditional Chinese Medicine are not exclusively considered as disorders of the mind as they are in the West. Emotions cause and are caused by disruptions to qi and other substances in the body. So it is not a surprise that IBS or a frozen shoulder can be seen with depression or headaches with anxiety. A complete history is taken to make a diagnosis & results can be good.

Make the smallest shift in your evaluation of a situation and the ability to change will open up. Acupuncture or the meditative aspect of qigong can help you to open a path to change.

The Chinese symbol for change depicts a lizard which changes colour as the light changes, from dark to light or vice versa. This represents change from yin to yang or vice versa. These energetic opposites define different states whether they are dark and light, hot and cold, calm and anxious - recognising the opposites allows the possibility of change in ourselves and in the world, living and non-living.

Capitalisation of organ names is used to show that they are considered differently in Chinese Medicine, see Chinese terms