The links to the other pages on the left hand side should get you around it easily. Here on the homepage, I thought I'd put a little information about acupuncture, moxibustion, and their origins.

Whilst this is true, to utilise its full potential acupuncturists also use a herb (commonly known as "moxa") which is smouldered either just over the skin or on the handles of the needles themselves.

In fact, the word which describes acupuncture therapy in Chinese is zhen jiu which roughly translates as "needles and warming". This is how closely moxibustion is associated with needle therapy in the Far East, which is why this website is called "Acupuncture-and-Moxa", in the spirit of the traditional therapy.

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As a fully conceived therapy, acupuncture and moxibustion is over 2,000 years old. In fact, texts describing moxibustion were found amongst the oldest authenticated surviving collection of medical scrolls in China, so it is quite probable that the roots of needle therapy actually lie in moxibustion itself.

Since those times, acupuncture and moxa has been used by literally millions of practitioners on countless millions of people, treating a huge variety of complaints. Indeed it may well be the world's oldest continuously practised holistic therapy. Today, acupuncture is practised in many styles across the world, and in recent times, it has been embraced by many visionary physicians both in the East and in the West, and it continues to be creatively developed and investigated. Its actions and mechanisms are still not fully scientifically understood, but this has not detracted from its application in the modern age.