Menopause
Are you struggling with hot flushes, night sweats, anxiety, insomnia, or mood swings?
Menopause is a natural stage of life, but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. At Eastern Remedies, I use gentle, personalised acupuncture to support your body and mind during this hormonal shift.
🌸 How Acupuncture Can Help with Menopause
Acupuncture offers a drug-free, holistic way to ease menopausal symptoms.
It works by rebalancing your body’s internal systems, calming the nervous system, and regulating hormones.
🧘♀️ Common symptoms acupuncture can support:
- Hot flushes & night sweats
- Mood changes (irritability, anxiety, low mood)
- Insomnia & disrupted sleep
- Brain fog & difficulty concentrating
- Vaginal dryness & low libido
- Fatigue and low energy
🪷 The Chinese Medicine Perspective
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, menopause is not seen as a disease, but as a natural life transition marking the end of the reproductive phase. This transition is guided by the Kidneys, which are regarded as the root of life and the storehouse of the body’s essential energy, or Jing (Essence).
🧬 The Role of the Kidneys in Menopause
In TCM, the Kidneys govern birth, growth, reproduction, and aging. They store Jing, which is a foundational substance responsible for hormonal cycles, fertility, and vitality. As a woman ages, Kidney Jing gradually declines, and this leads to a weakening of both Kidney Yin and Kidney Yang.
- Kidney Yin provides the body’s cooling, moistening, and calming functions.
- Kidney Yang provides warmth, metabolic fire, and motivation.
During menopause, Kidney Yin is often more depleted than Yang, creating an internal imbalance where Yang rises unanchored, resulting in symptoms of heat, dryness, and restlessness.
🔥 Common Symptoms from Yin Deficiency
When Yin is insufficient, the body struggles to regulate internal heat and fluid balance. You may experience:
- Hot flushes and night sweats
- Dry skin, eyes, or vaginal dryness
- Anxiety or irritability
- Palpitations or insomnia
- Dizziness and tinnitus
- Low back pain and fatigue
- Brain fog and poor memory
These are signs of Yin not anchoring Yang, which rises inappropriately and disturbs the Heart and Shen (mind/spirit).
🌿 The Involvement of Other Organs
While the Kidneys are central, other systems are also involved:
- Heart: Often affected by rising heat, leading to insomnia and emotional instability
- Liver: Responsible for the smooth flow of Qi; stagnation here can cause mood swings, frustration, and irritability
- Spleen: A weakened Spleen can result in fatigue, poor digestion, and fluid metabolism issues
TCM treatment sees all of these systems as interconnected, aiming to bring the entire body back into balance.
🌱 How Acupuncture Supports Menopause Naturally
Acupuncture helps to rebalance Yin and Yang, nourish the Kidneys, and regulate Qi and Blood flow. It works by:
✅ Strengthening Kidney Yin to cool and calm the body
✅ Supporting Kidney Yang if there is cold, fatigue, or low libido
✅ Calming the Heart and Shen to ease anxiety and insomnia
✅ Soothing the Liver to support emotional wellbeing
✅ Boosting the Spleen to improve digestion and energy levels
This holistic approach addresses both the root and the symptoms, offering natural support without the side effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
🌼 Final Thoughts
💬 “Menopause is not an ending—it’s a recalibration.”
With the right support, this stage can bring clarity, resilience, and renewed balance.
TCM views it as an opportunity to nourish your essence, slow aging, and refocus on long-term health. With the support of acupuncture, diet, herbs, and lifestyle changes, this stage can become a period of renewed balance and strength.
💡 What to Expect in a Treatment
Your treatment is personalised and begins with a deep understanding of your body and health history through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Many women report feeling deeply relaxed after a session.
📝 Initial Consultation – 90 minutes (£90)
Your first session includes:
- A thorough health history intake
- Tongue analysis
- Pulse diagnosis
- Your first acupuncture treatment
- TCM-based dietary guidance
- Recommendations for Chinese herbal medicine (if appropriate)
⏳ Follow-up Sessions – 60 minutes (£75)
Each follow-up includes a review of your progress, targeted acupuncture, and adjustments to your care plan—including lifestyle, diet, and herbs where needed.
💬 Each treatment is calm, supportive, and tailored to your unique menopausal symptoms and constitution.
💖 Why Choose Eastern Remedies
✅ Specialist in Women’s Health
✅ Safe, natural, drug-free care
✅ Registered & insured practitioner
✅ Based in Dorking
✅ Comfortable, private treatment
Anxiety
🌿 Acupuncture for Anxiety
Calm the Mind, Restore the Spirit
Do you struggle with persistent worry, racing thoughts, panic attacks, or sleep difficulties?
Anxiety can affect every part of life — from how we think and feel to how we sleep, digest, and relate to others. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), anxiety is not just a mental health issue, but a sign of energetic imbalance in the body.
Acupuncture offers a natural, drug-free way to calm the nervous system, support emotional balance, and gently restore inner peace.
🪷 The Chinese Medicine View of Anxiety
In TCM, anxiety is often linked to imbalances in the Heart, Liver, Spleen, and Kidney systems, each affecting the mind in different ways:
Organ SystemTCM RoleImbalance Symptoms
❤️ Heart (Shen) houses the mind/spirit, palpitations, insomnia, restlessness
🌬 Liver regulates emotions, irritability, tension, panic, PMS
🌾 Spleen supports thinking and grounding, worry, overthinking, digestive upset
🧬 Kidney governs fear, insecurity, fatigue, low mood
When Qi is stagnant or depleted, or when Yin is deficient, the Shen (spirit) becomes unsettled, resulting in anxiety.
⚡ Anxiety Rooted in Trauma
For some, anxiety stems from emotional trauma — whether a single distressing event or ongoing, complex experiences. In Chinese medicine, trauma is often understood as a shock to the Heart and Kidneys, disturbing the Shen (spirit) and weakening the foundation of resilience.
💔 Heart Shock (emotional trauma) may lead to:
- Emotional numbness
- Panic attacks or chest tightness
- Sleep disturbances
- Startle response and hypervigilance
🧬 Kidney Jing can become depleted after long-term trauma, leading to:
- Deep-rooted fear or insecurity
- Exhaustion and burnout
- Memory issues or dissociation
🪡 Acupuncture helps by:
- Calming the Heart and Shen
- Anchoring the Kidneys to restore inner safety
- Releasing stored tension from the nervous system
- Supporting emotional release in a safe, non-verbal way
This makes acupuncture a gentle, trauma-informed therapy, especially helpful for those who may not feel ready for talk-based treatments.
🔹 Common Anxiety-Related Symptoms Treated
Acupuncture can help reduce both physical and emotional symptoms, including:
- Racing heart / palpitations
- Insomnia or unrefreshing sleep
- Digestive upset (IBS, bloating, nausea)
- Muscle tension or jaw clenching
- Panic attacks / shallow breathing
- Restlessness and overthinking
- PMS-related anxiety or hormonal shifts
- Anxiety linked to past trauma or grief
💡 What to Expect in a Treatment
📝 Initial Consultation – 90 minutes (£90)
Your first session includes:
- In-depth health and emotional history intake
- Tongue and pulse diagnosis
- First acupuncture treatment
- TCM-based diet and lifestyle advice
- Optional Chinese herbal support, tailored to your condition
⏳ Follow-up Sessions – 60 minutes (£75)
Each follow-up builds on your progress, adjusts treatment based on changes, and continues to guide you in holistic emotional support.
💆♀️ Many patients find these sessions deeply grounding and emotionally restorative.
📚 What the Research Says
Modern studies support acupuncture’s effectiveness in reducing anxiety:
- A 2021 meta-analysis in Frontiers in Psychology showed acupuncture significantly reduces state and trait anxiety, often outperforming medication with fewer side effects.
- Acupuncture helps regulate cortisol, promote deep sleep, and increase GABA and serotonin—key neurotransmitters for calm and wellbeing.
- It is increasingly used as a complementary therapy in trauma recovery settings worldwide.
🌿 Natural, Holistic Anxiety Support
At Eastern Remedies, we aim to support the whole person — not just the diagnosis.
You will receive care that is:
- Gentle and non-invasive
- Free from medication side effects
- Rooted in classical Chinese medicine and modern evidence
- Integrated with lifestyle, diet, and herbal guidance
- Safe for those recovering from trauma or burnout
💬 Ready to feel calm, balanced, and supported?
Book your free 15-minute discovery call or schedule your first session today.
Let’s work together to create a plan that helps you feel more at ease — naturally.
Infertility
🌸 Acupuncture for Fertility
🔍 How Acupuncture Supports Fertility
Whether you're preparing to conceive naturally, undergoing IVF, or recovering from miscarriage, acupuncture offers holistic, personalised support.
🪡 Acupuncture can help:
- Regulate the menstrual cycle
- Improve egg and sperm quality
- Strengthen the uterine lining
- Reduce inflammation and stress
- Support implantation and early pregnancy
- Prevent and recover from miscarriage
🔸 Common Conditions Treated
Acupuncture can support natural conception and assisted reproductive techniques (IVF/IUI) in a variety of conditions:
👩⚕️ Women’s Health & Hormonal Issues
- Irregular or absent periods
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
- Endometriosis
- Unexplained infertility
- Thin uterine lining
- Luteal phase defect
- Recurrent miscarriage
👨⚕️ Male Fertility
- Low sperm count or motility
- Poor sperm morphology (shape)
- Stress-induced fertility issues
- Support post-varicocele or prostate inflammation
💔 Recurrent Miscarriage & Chinese Medicine
In TCM, miscarriage is seen as a sign of weakened Qi, Blood, or Jing (Essence) — often due to:
- Kidney deficiency (weakened reproductive foundation)
- Spleen Qi deficiency (inability to hold pregnancy)
- Blood deficiency (inadequate nourishment of the womb)
- Emotional or physical stress
🪡 Acupuncture helps by:
- Nourishing Kidney and Spleen energy to stabilise pregnancy
- Calming the Shen (spirit) to reduce anxiety
- Strengthening the uterine environment
- Supporting post-miscarriage recovery gently and safely
🤱 This support is also beneficial after loss, helping women rebuild strength and prepare physically and emotionally for future conception.
🧬 Fertility & TCM Organ Systems
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, fertility depends on the harmony of several key organ systems:
🧬 Kidneys are the foundation of reproductive energy. They store Jing (Essence) and are responsible for egg and sperm quality, sexual vitality, and overall reproductive strength. When depleted, you may experience fatigue, infertility, or recurrent miscarriage.
❤️ Heart governs the Shen (spirit) and connects directly to the uterus. Emotional trauma, anxiety, or insomnia can disturb the Heart’s connection to the womb, creating energetic blockages that affect conception.
🌬 Liver ensures the smooth flow of Qi and Blood, which is essential for ovulation, menstrual regularity, and emotional balance. If Liver Qi is stagnant, symptoms like PMS, painful cycles, irritability, or emotional repression can arise — all of which may interfere with fertility.
🌾 Spleen is responsible for producing Blood and nourishing the womb. If the Spleen is weak, you may experience light periods, a thin uterine lining, bloating, fatigue, or difficulty maintaining a pregnancy.
Acupuncture works by restoring the balance among these systems — strengthening where there is deficiency, and soothing where there is excess or emotional strain.
💔 Emotional Trauma & Fertility
Sometimes the difficulty in conceiving is not purely physical — it may be linked to past emotional trauma, unresolved grief, or chronic stress.
From a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective, trauma can deeply disturb the Heart (Shen), Liver (Qi flow), and Kidneys (Essence and reproductive root).
💡 Emotional or energetic blocks can manifest as:
- Irregular or absent periods
- Unexplained infertility despite normal tests
- Repeated miscarriages
- Pain or numbness in the pelvic area
- Anxiety, shame, or emotional overwhelm around conception
🪡 Acupuncture helps by:
- Calming the Shen (mind/spirit) and reducing internal stress
- Releasing held tension from the body (especially the womb area)
- Restoring the flow of Liver Qi and Blood
- Nourishing the Kidneys and Heart connection
- Creating emotional safety and energetic readiness for conception
✨ Treatments are non-invasive, gentle, and offer a safe space to reconnect with your body after trauma, loss, or long-term stress.
🤰 IVF & Assisted Fertility Support
Acupuncture is often used at key stages of IVF and IUI:
🗓 We support:
- Pre-treatment preparation
- Follicular phase support
- Pre- and post-embryo transfer
- Luteal phase and implantation
- Post-miscarriage recovery
Acupuncture complements medical care, enhances blood flow, and helps reduce the physical and emotional burden of treatment.
📚 What the Research Shows
- Acupuncture improves endometrial thickness, blood flow, and hormone regulation
- Shown to increase IVF success rates when timed with embryo transfer
- Promotes relaxation and reduces cortisol
- Supports pregnancy retention by stabilising uterine conditions
(Sources: Fertility & Sterility, BMJ, Reproductive Biomedicine Online)
💖 Whole-Person Fertility Support
We care for more than just the reproductive system.
✨ You receive:
- Acupuncture tailored to your menstrual or IVF cycle
- Emotional support after loss or setbacks
- Nutritional guidance to build Blood and Jing
- Chinese herbal formulas where appropriate
You're not alone — and your care is gentle, rooted in classical wisdom, and backed by science.
🕒 Treatment Structure & Pricing
📝 Initial Fertility Consultation – 90 minutes (£90)
Includes:
- Full reproductive health history
- Menstrual cycle mapping
- Pulse and tongue diagnosis
- First treatment
- TCM-based diet and lifestyle plan
- Optional herbal formula recommendation
⏳ Follow-Up Sessions – 60 minutes (£75)
Follow-up appointments are designed to respond to the natural changes in your cycle, energy, and emotional state.
Each session may include:
- Reviewing your cycle, ovulation tracking, or treatment milestones (e.g. embryo transfer)
- Adjusting acupuncture points based on where you are hormonally or emotionally
- Ongoing support for regulating hormones, ovulation, or stress
- Fertility-focused treatment during specific phases (follicular, ovulatory, luteal)
- Continued tongue and pulse diagnosis to monitor internal balance
- Herbal and nutritional guidance tailored to evolving patterns
- Emotional support if you're feeling anxious, disheartened, or disconnected
💆♀️ These sessions are not one-size-fits-all — they are responsive, therapeutic, and fully aligned with your individual fertility journey.
