Acupuncture & Women's Health Clinic in Dorking
A Holistic Blend for Deep Healing
At Eastern Remedies, we integrate the profound insights of Five Element Acupuncture with the time-tested diagnostic precision of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to offer you a truly comprehensive and personalised healing experience.
Rooted in ancient Taoist philosophy, Five Element Acupuncture is a deeply spiritual and emotional form of healing that focuses on treating the root cause of illness by working with the Five Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. Each element corresponds to a particular emotion, organ system, and season of life.
🔸 Focus: Emotions, spirit (Shen), constitutional imbalance
🔸 Goal: Restoring balance to your elemental nature to encourage deep self-healing
🔸 Unique Strength: Helps with long-standing emotional patterns, fatigue, anxiety, and trauma-related conditions
TCM is a broad system of medicine that includes acupuncture, herbal medicine, dietary therapy, cupping, and more. It is rooted in the observation of patterns and symptoms and aims to regulate the flow of Qi (energy) and Blood throughout the body.
🔸 Focus: Physical symptoms, organ dysfunction, energetic blockages
🔸 Goal: Correcting imbalances like Qi deficiency, stagnation, or excess
🔸 Unique Strength: Excellent for treating pain, digestive issues, fertility concerns, hormonal imbalance, and complex physical complaints
Blending Five Element Acupuncture with TCM allows us to treat both the root (Ben) and the branch (Biao) of illness. While TCM works on relieving physical symptoms, Five Element Acupuncture addresses the emotional and energetic layers that often lie beneath.
💡 For example:
A patient with chronic headaches might receive TCM-style acupuncture for pain relief and organ regulation, and Five Element treatment to support emotional release and restore inner harmony.
✔️ Personalised Care – Treatments are tailored to your emotional constitution and your current physical condition
✔️ Depth + Precision – Addressing symptoms and their emotional/spiritual root
✔️ Integrated Tools – We may combine acupuncture with moxa, cupping, gua sha, or herbal medicine based on your needs
✔️ Long-lasting Results – When the body, mind, and spirit are all treated, healing goes deeper and lasts longer
Whether you're seeking help with physical symptoms, emotional overwhelm, or a general sense of imbalance, this holistic approach supports all layers of your being — gently guiding you back to your natural state of harmony.
🕊️ Healing isn't just about fixing symptoms — it's about reconnecting with who you are at your core.
How Feelings Reside in the Body
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), every major organ is not only responsible for a physical function, but also holds and expresses specific emotions. These emotional energies are natural and vital—but when out of balance, they can contribute to both physical illness and emotional distress.
Here’s a breakdown of the organ-emotion connections within the Five Element framework:
Emotion: Anger, frustration, resentment
The Liver is in charge of the smooth flow of Qi (energy) throughout the body. When this energy stagnates—often due to stress, emotional repression, or overwork—it can give rise to irritability, outbursts, or internalised frustration.
🔹 In Balance: Clarity, decisiveness, healthy assertiveness
🔹 Out of Balance: Irritability, PMS, headaches, tightness in the body
Emotion: Joy (excess or lack), anxiety, restlessness
The Heart houses the Shen, or spirit, and governs our capacity for connection, love, and emotional warmth. A balanced Heart brings peaceful joy, while imbalances may result in anxiety, insomnia, or a sense of disconnection.
🔹 In Balance: Joy, compassion, meaningful relationships
🔹 Out of Balance: Panic, insomnia, scattered thoughts, over-excitement
Emotion: Worry, overthinking, rumination
The Spleen governs digestion—of both food and thoughts. It’s easily weakened by excessive mental activity, leading to fatigue, bloating, and difficulty concentrating.
🔹 In Balance: Clear thinking, groundedness, nurturing energy
🔹 Out of Balance: Worry, brain fog, digestive issues, emotional exhaustion
Emotion: Grief, sadness, letting go
The Lungs are connected to our ability to breathe, release, and process loss. Unresolved grief or chronic sadness can weaken the Lung energy, making us more prone to respiratory issues and emotional numbness.
🔹 In Balance: Acceptance, clarity, reverence for life
🔹 Out of Balance: Grief, skin problems, breathlessness, withdrawal
Emotion: Fear, insecurity, shock
The Kidneys hold our ancestral energy and are connected to willpower and survival instinct. Fear that is chronic or overwhelming can deplete Kidney energy, affecting both physical vitality and emotional resilience.
🔹 In Balance: Courage, inner strength, willpower
🔹 Out of Balance: Anxiety, fearfulness, fatigue, low libido
While the Five Elements offer a primary framework, Chinese Medicine recognises that all emotions are natural. It is excessive, repressed, or unprocessed emotions that become pathological.
Acupuncture helps regulate these emotional imbalances by restoring energetic harmony to the corresponding organ system.
What you will experience during a session:
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Are there any contra-indications?
Included in the Acupuncture treatments
"The Acupuncturist
Told me how Chinese Medicine
Connects the Grief emotion
To the Intestines
And he treated me
For a painful
Somewhat mysterious malady
Today was a healing feeling experience
Some part of what is trapped inside
Could no longer be repressed, denied,
Had to be expressed, so may
My future life be blessed
With an ability to calmly flow
To let it go
To tell my story
In all of its intricate
Beginnings and endings
Beginnings and endings."
BAA and BAF worked with Public Health England and the Office of National Statistics to raise the category of acupuncture from 3219 - the category of Health Associate, up to 2220 - the level of Osteopaths and Physiotherapists. All professional acupuncturists now belong in the category of Healthcare Professionals. This means that in the event of future Tiers of Lockdowns the clinic will be able to stay open.