Meet Our Acupuncturist

The practice of acupuncture involves inserting very fine needles into specific points on 

the body to produce a wide variety of physiological responses. Acupuncture point locations have been detailed in literature, in body maps and even in cast bronze statues, such as the famous Bronze Man cast by Wang Weiyi in 1026 AD/CE. In 2008, the World Health Organisation Western Pacific Regional Office published WHO Standard Acupuncture Point Locations 

in the Western Pacific Region following an exhaustive process involving leading acupuncture academics and practitioners from around the world. The selection of acupuncture points is based on traditional theories of Chinese medicine and supported by an extremely large clinical literature, which distils the clinical expertise of many generations of acupuncturists 

Among acupuncture’s multiple clinical impacts, the most thoroughly researched are 

acupuncture’s analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and anti-emetic effects. However, numerous 

other physiological responses have been identified in clinical and mechanisms research. In two recent evidence maps of acupuncture published in 2022 by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the following conditions were rated as large or moderate effect sizes and high or moderate certainty of evidence: migraine, tension-type headache, allergic rhinitis, fibromyalgia (pain, fatigue and sleep), shoulder pain, neck pain, nonspecific low back pain and myofascial/chronic musculoskeletal pain.