Healthy Pregnancy
 More and more women are seeking natural ways to help with their pregnancy and birth, as free from intervention as possible. Acupuncture is ideal for this. It is “drug free” and no known harmful teratogenic effect.
It can effectively treat ailments such as:
- Morning Sickness
- This is the most common condition treated in pregnancy and one that can cause a lot of misery for some women and their families. Some women feel much better after two or three treatments, whilist other may need a course of ten to feel that their symptoms have completely subsided.
- Backache/sciatica
- It normally occurs at a later stage of the pregnancy and again respond well with acupuncture.
- Abdominal pain
- Constipation
- Breech presentation
- The turning of a breech presentation using the burning herb Moxa has been used in China for thousands of years. Researches have shown the success rate ranging from 80.9 per cent to 90.3 per cent with an ideal time for treatment being around the 34th week of gestation.
- Induction of labour
- Acupuncture or acupressure is now widely used as a natural pain relief in labour. Acupuncture for induction of labour is also well studied.
- Postnatal Care
- Chinese medicine is particularly useful after a traumatic labour or delivery. Common problems which can be helped with Chinese medicine include perineal pain, postnatal depression, insufficient lactation, mastitis, etc.
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