Holistic medicine
Together acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine are known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
TCM is a holistic medicine so Machelle uses TCM theory in her diagnosis to determine how your whole body can be helped to improve your health.
Treatments tailored to you
TCM’s subtle diagnostic techniques recognise that diseases that are often labeled the same way in western medicine come in a variety of forms and change as time passes.
For example a cold or headache or sleep issues may have different acupuncture and herbal treatments and their treatments may vary over time. Machelle tailors your treatments to you.
Recognised by the World Health Organisation
The World Health Organisation lists a wide variety of diseases or disorders for which acupuncture therapy has been tested in controlled clinical trials.
Professionally managed
The Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency (AHPRA) regulates the Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine Practitioners.
The Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association (AACMA) is the leading professional body regulating the accreditation of TCM practitioners in Australia. It governs the high standards of education that members such as Machelle must attain to qualify as practitioners.
Machelle is registered with both AHPRA and AACMA.
A combination of acupuncture and herbal medicine suitable for all ages
Machelle’s fascination with Chinese Medicine started with acupuncture but having found what Chinese Herbal Medicine can do she uses both, as needed. Machelle’s special interest is in Women’s health, muscular skeletal and digestive issues.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is the strategic insertion, penetration and manipulation of needles on the body for therapeutic benefit. Treatments are tailored to acknowledge individual sensitivity to needles.
Acupuncture is recognised worldwide as a Chinese medicine treatment, acupuncture is not only the strategic insertion of single use sterile needles into the known acupuncture points to treat, relieve or heal a variety of diagnosed conditions, but can also be delivered needle free using low level laser light therapy, acupressure and An Mo Tui Na (Traditional Chinese Remedial Massage) that effectively and beneficially manipulates the acupuncture points and the energy channels or meridians through therapeutic massage.
I am regularly asked what is the difference between Acupuncture and Dry Needling.
https://acupuncture.org.au/acupuncture-chinese-medicine/acupuncture
Chinese Herbs
Chinese herbs are blends selected from about 450 naturally occurring substances (mostly from plants and, in Machelle’s clinics, never from endangered species).
Depending on your condition, Machelle uses high quality formulas (taken as small tablets with water) or, more commonly, she creates customised herbal blends in powder form (taken dissolved in hot water).
These allow her to treat most clients with herbs in a form that is convenient to take.
Dietary advice
Machelle has found that her dietary advice continues to be an important part of many people’s health plans.