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News & Lifestyle
January 2010 - Happy New Year!! - Winter Lifestyle Tips according to Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory
Winter is the time of the year where the aspect of Yin is abundant: the weather is cold, the days are short, the nights are long, beings begin to hibernate. It is a time of storing and preserving. In the Winter, it is recommended that we do the following:
• Go to bed early, get up late
• Remain peaceful and quiet
• Eat warming dishes like soups, stews and caseroles. Include foods like lamb, fish, honey, polenta, peas, lentils, broad beans and apples. Use warming herbs such as ginger, cinnamen, cloves, aniseed, coriander and cardamon.
• Carefully avoid Wind and Cold, by wearing suitable clothing that covers you up, particularly your lower back and neck.
• Avoid drafts at home
• Avoid excessive warmth (i.e. don’t turn the heating up too high, it can make you ill!)
• Try not to over-exercise, it is a time for conserving and storing your reserves
September 2009 - Richard Steven now has a blog!
For research, articles, news, lifestyle advice, hints, links and tips... Click Here
August 2009 - Take the pressure off with private health insurance cover for your acupuncture treatments
There are several private health insurance companies that cover acupuncture treatments given by Richard Steven. Here is a list of links to some of the main providers:
National Friendly
Norwich Union / Aviva
Simply Health
Inter Global
'Chinese Herb Shows Promise for Arthritis'
'A herbal remedy used for centuries in China can improve the pain and inflammation of rheumatoid arthritis, according to a new study. But the research on this treatment is still at an early stage, and many questions remain about its safety and effectiveness.' Source: www.guardian.co.uk. To see the full article Click Here and scroll down the page. There are also other interesting articles.
July 2009 - The Spirit of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture
Here is an adapted excerpt of the introduction to the Shang Han Lun, one of the classical texts of Chinese medicine that was written by Zhang Zhong Jing (150-219 C.E.). This extraodinary introduction embodies something of the spirit of Chinese medicine in daily life, both for practitioners and patients alike and seems as relevant today as it was eighteen hundred years ago.
It is bewildering that the learned men and women of our age never pay attention to medicine and are not proficiently versed in the remedial arts, which would enable them to treat the illnesses of their elders above, to relieve the suffering of the poor and destitute below, and to safeguard their own body and sustain health at the centre, all in order to cultivate life.
Instead they only compete to persue glory and power. They stand on the tiptoe of expectancy for influential officials and families of power, diligently and untiringly devoting their efforts only to fame and profit. Revering and refining nonessentials, they neglect and abandon the root. While embellishing the external, they impoverish the internal. If the skin is absent, how can the hair be securely attached?...
...The whole world is stuporous, nobody is aware, nobody cherishes life. Making light of life in this way, why all that talk of glory and power? Moving forward into society, they are unable to love and know others; retreating into themselves, they are unable to know and love themselves. Meeting disaster and encountering misfortune, placed in precarious position, they are still clouded by ignorance, blind as wandering souls.
What sorrow! Men and women who pursue the ways of the world race in competition for vain ostentation, failing to secure the root. Neglecting the body in persuit of material possesions, their situation is as dangerous as if they were walking on thin ice in the bottom of a deep valley, so serious is it.
Adapted from: Mitchell C, Feng Y and Wiseman N. (1999)An eighteen-hundred-year-old Chinese Medical Text on Externally Contracted Disease by Zhang Ji (Zhang Zhong-Jing): Shang Han Lun: On Cold Damage: Translation & Commentaries. Brooklyn. Paradigm Publications
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June 2009 - Location, Location, Location
Not sure if you are in the right area for an appointment?
Patients come to see Richard from all of the following locations:
N1, N10, N11, N12, N13, N15, N16, N17, N19, N2, N20, N21, N22, N3, N4, N5, N6, N7, N8, NW1, NW11, NW2, NW3, NW5, NW6, NW8,
E1, E11, E12, E14, E15, E17, E18, E2, E5, E8, E9, EC1R, EC1V, EC4V, EN5
SE1, SE10, SE13, SE23, SE6, SL9, SW11, SW1P, SW2, SW6
HA3, HA4, HA8, HA9, HA9, TN22, W11, W1H, W9, WC2B, YO24, PL22, IG8, IP33, ME3
May 2009 - NICE recommends NHS to prescribe acupuncture for persistent non specific lower back pain. Acupuncture evidence base increases
Back pain in general and lower back pain in particular is one of the most commonly seen conditions in the acupuncture clinic and is often treated with great success. It is very encouraging to see that the orthodox medical profession is recognising acupuncture as an effective treatment for this condition and i look forward to a healthy collaboration in the future. I hope very much that this is a trend that continues into other areas of treatment where acupuncture can be very effective like anxiety disorders, stress, depression, insomnia, infertility and IVF support.
To read the NICE guidelines Click Here
A recent systematic review of clinical trials with acupuncture treatments by the NHS in association with the Health Evidence Network (HEN) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that there is good evidence that acupuncture is also effective in the treatment of dental pain, temporomandibular pain and in the control of post operative and chemotherapy induced nausea.
To read an NHS article on the subject Click Here
March 2009 - Information for those interested in Tai Chi, Chi Gung and Traditional Chinese lifestyle practices
As many of you will know, Traditional Chinese medicine is not only about receiving Acupuncture, Tuina or Herbal Medicine as a passive process on the part of the patient. It is an active process where patients are educated, and encouraged, to take part in their own health and learn how to govern their diet, exercise and behaviour according to their circumstances and unique constitution. This helps to maintain optimum health not just for now, but for the rest of their lives.
For those of you who are interested in practicing Tai Chi, Chi Gung, Ba Gua and other traditional Chinese health practices, i would like to recommend a colleague of mine Chris Ray who runs the Real Taoism centre in Brick Lane. Chris has been teaching these techniques for many years and is very well respected in his field.
'We teach traditional Taoist Life Arts such as Tai Chi, Chi Gung and Ba Gua as taught in Chinese cities for hundreds of years. Practising one of our Life Arts programmes for just 20 minutes each day will develop your personal power (Chi) and capacity for stillness, enabling you to respond skillfully to the challenges of your busy and demanding life.'
For more information contact Real Taoism:
Website: www.realtaoism.com
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7247 1399
Email: Click Here
February 2009 - Yantra Yoga Course for Beginners
There will be a beginners course of Yantra yoga (see previous post below) on the weekend of 21st-22nd of February with John Renshaw.
Location: Kailash centre, 7 Newcourt Street, St John's Wood, London, NW8.
Times: 9.30am to 5.30pm.
'During weekend we will cover 2 groups of preliminary practices, 1 group consists of 5 exercises that prepares, opens and mobilises the joints, the other 8 exercises introduce the different components of correct and developed breathing. We will then learn the first 2 groups of 5 yantras that develop and deepen the different types of breathing and holds.' JR
If you wish to attend this course please contact John Renshaw
For more information about Yantra Yoga Click Here
October 2008 - Yantra Yoga book release
Generally, practitioners of Traditional Chinese medicine will encourage their patients to learn Tai Chi or Qigong in order to promote and develop health and wellbeing. I personally encourage people whenever possible to take up Yantra Yoga. This is simply because i myself have practiced Yantra Yoga for more than 10 years and have complete confidence in it's capacity to enable one to develop physical health, co-ordinate ones energy and to allow the mind to relax in it's real condition.
Yantra Yoga dates back to the 8th century and is connected with the Buddhist path of Dzogchen. It's lineage remained preserved in Tibet until the early 1970's where it was introduced to Westerners by the great Dzogchen master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche who has now written a comprehensive commentary to the original text with detailed instructions on how to perform the movements. The book also contains very clear pictures of each of the postures and variations.
If you would like to find out more about Yantra Yoga Click Here
If you live in London and would like to learn Yantra Yoga then call John Renshaw who teaches in North London, his number is: 07939 090 412
June 2008 - Low cost acupuncture clinic at Belsize Health, NW3
Following the closure of my previous low cost acupuncture clinic at Swiss Cottage Community Centre, I am very happy to announce that I have found a new venue at Belsize Health on Englands Lane in NW3.
Low cost treatments are available for people on lower incomes with long-term health problems who would not otherwise be able to afford a course of treatments. There is daytime availability to see me on Wednesday's only. The Belsize Health clinic also offers other low cost treatments. To see more information Click Here
December 2007 - Specialist treatments for skin problems
Over the last 6 months Richard has been studying a Chinese herbal medicine dermatology diploma with Mazin Al-Khafaji, one of the foremost experts in the field outside of China. After a grueling 5 hour exam with a minimum pass mark of 70%, Richard is now confidently able to offer treatments for many common skin diseases including:
Acne
(teenage, post adolescent female)
Eczema
(Discoid, Pompholyx, Allergic)
Psoriasis
(Placque, Guttate, Pustular)
Dermatitis
(Seborrhoeic, Perioral, Contact)
Rosacea
Lichen Simplex
Urticaria (Hives)
Pityriasis
Vitiligo
Treatments for these conditions may need commitment on the part of the patient to be effective. You will need to boil the loose herbs and drink them for 12-18 weeks. They do not taste good but they can be very effective! Natural external medicines are also available.
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