Health
Heart Shen in Nature and Art on Instagram
If you are arriving here from Instagram – welcome, I’m grateful that you are taking the time to read this and appreciate your curiosity. Are you wondering why my Instagram feed doesn’t feature many photos of acupuncture? The reason is […]
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Wintertime sleep
It is January and I know many of you will be at the gym or attending a new exercise classes to counter the excess of the festive season, but actually Chinese Medicine would ask you to think about your yin […]
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It’s All In Your Head
People with psychosomatic pain use to be told “you’re not really in pain, it’s just in your head, you are making this up”. Such a diagnosis holds a big stigma. Yet the pain is real, though not from a physical […]
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What We Value
As some of you know I took some time off to attend my dear friend Nigel’s funeral in Devon. He died of cancer and had much time to prepare for his funeral. It was a fitting tribute to his life. […]
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Exercise – another view from traditional Chinese knowledge
In Live Well, Live Long (Deadman 2016), exercise is presented in its historical context. For centuries physical activity was seamlessly interwoven into everyday life: cleaning the house, digging, chopping wood, hunting food and only in our modern, relatively wealthy society […]
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Singing for unsticking your Qi and feeling good
A long time ago I met Katie Rose at a business networking meeting in Crystal Palace. At the time I was starting to investigate how Tibetan singing bowls can be played to resonate with the body and induce a sense […]
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Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy – how acupressure can help
Usually morning sickness is a good sign that the pregnancy is progressing well and often for women who have struggled to get pregnant it is a reassuring sign. But for some women it can be debilitating and even life threatening […]
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Press-stroke your Cold away
You feel a cold coming on, perhaps slight soreness in the throat, a sneeze here and there. Now is the time to act. I’ve provided some homecare remedies on my website (https://traceygoulding.com/search/colds) you can follow, but have you thought of […]
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Eating to build ‘Blood’ and Yin
Summer is the time of salads. In Chinese Medicine eating with the seasons is advocated, so eating salads and some raw foods in the summer is seen as living harmoniously with nature. So while we’ve still got some summer left, thought I’d […]
Read MoreBurnt out Brits struggle with stress
The nation’s stress levels are on the increase and we are risking our health by turning to sugary food, takeaways and alcohol to help cope with modern life a new survey has revealed. The brand new study by the British […]
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