Five Element Acupuncture works by stimulating your body's natural ability to heal itself.

This means that anyone can benefit.

Whether your symptoms are mental or physical there is a good chance it can work for you.

Acupuncture works for a range of conditions including:

• backache
• headache
• migraine
• stress
• depression
• asthma
• insomnia
• arthritis
• irregular or painful periods
• high blood pressure
• infertility
• eczema
• chronic fatigue

Five Element Acupuncture treats you, not just your symptoms.

The aim is to restore harmony and balance. As this happens your symptoms will ease.

If you're feeling out of sorts or in need of a boost, you can still get real benefits.

Acupuncture stimulates the production of endorphins and serotonin. These are chemicals in the brain responsible for wellbeing and happiness.

Five Element Acupuncture can help you to feel at your best.

Treatment can increase your resistance to cold and flu. People find they get ill less often and recover faster.

Stress has become an almost inevitable part of modern life. Five Element Acupuncture can give you resources to prevent stress and its effects on your health.

Instead of obstacles and problems you begin to see possibilities and solutions.

Acupuncture is an ancient system of medicine originating in China. The earliest records of its use date back five thousand years.

Acupuncture was brought to the west in the twentieth century by doctors visiting China. They were amazed to see operations performed on fully conscious patients using acupuncture as an anesthetic.

Since then, acupuncture's popularity in the west has grown rapidly. Over two million treatments are currently given each year in Britain alone.

According to the ancient Chinese, vital energy (chi) travels through your body along pathways called meridians. When you are in good health the flow of chi is smooth and uninterrupted, but when illness strikes this flow is disturbed.

An acupuncturist works by stimulating precise points along the meridians to restore your flow of chi and return you to full health. Many people actually describe a tingling sensation along the exact pathway of a meridian, without even knowing it exists.