Treatments

24/02/2025

Anxiety and heart palpitations: how acupuncture can help

If you're struggling with heart palpitations related to anxiety, acupuncture can help restore balance and calm your nervous system. At Village Healing Centre in Curl Curl, we can support your heart and mind through gentle, effective treatments. If you’re in the Northern Beaches of Sydney and you’re curious about acupuncture for anxiety and heart palpitations, we’d love to help you.
18/02/2025

Anxiety and jaw tension: How can acupuncture help?

If jaw tension is making you feel uncomfortable, anxious, or restless, acupuncture can help free those physical, mental or emotional blockages. At Village Healing Centre in Curl Curl, we’re here to help restore balance to your mind and body, so you can feel relaxed and free from unnecessary tension. If you’re in the Northern Beaches of Sydney and you’re curious about acupuncture for anxiety and jaw tension, we’d love to help you. You don’t have to figure this out alone.
03/02/2025

Anxiety and chest tightness: how acupuncture can help

Chest tightness is one of the most unsettling symptoms of anxiety. It can feel like pressure, constriction, or even mild pain—sometimes making people wonder if something is wrong with their heart or lungs. While it’s always important to rule out medical causes, anxiety-related chest tightness is incredibly common. Here’s a look at why it happens, from both a Western medical and a Chinese medicine perspective, plus how acupuncture can help bring relief.
31/01/2025

Acupuncture for anxiety: a natural way to calm

Anxiety isn’t just a feeling in your head—it’s in your body, too. Maybe your chest feels tight, your shoulders creep up toward your ears, or your stomach is in knots. Maybe sleep is elusive, or you wake up feeling like you haven’t had a proper rest in years. If any of that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. And if you’ve been searching for something that helps—something natural, something that works with your body instead of against it—acupuncture might be worth exploring.
17/07/2024

Overactive bladder? Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS) and acupuncture

For people with overactive bladder, acupuncture can offer a wholistic way forward. Doctors may offer Percutaneous Tibial Nerve Stimulation (PTNS) as a treatment - this actually comes from acupuncture, following the Bladder and Kidney meridians. But with acupuncture, your whole unique health "fingerprint" is assessed and treated, offering a wholistic approach that seeks to relieve symptoms and address causes at the same time.
15/11/2023

Movember 2023 special: Cupping package with bonus session

MOVEMBER SPECIAL 2023: Buy a prepaid package of 3 Cupping Sessions and receive a bonus 4th session free! Only $195 Terms & Conditions: Online purchases – […]
27/08/2023

The 6 Pillars of Sustained Good Health

10/12/2022

Holiday hours Dec 2022 – Jan 2023

Our last day is Thu 22nd Dec and we return Mon 9th Jan. Wishing you a peaceful and restorative holiday season!
30/06/2020

Winter Wellbeing: Chinese Medicine Secrets for Self-Care and Home Medicine

A comprehensive guide for home treatment of winter bugs. Learn about strengthening "Defensive Energy" to help immunity. Includes a range of home therapies.
23/06/2020

Acupuncture for migraine

Acupuncture is an effective, natural treatment for migraines that can reduce severity and frequency of episodes with regular sessions. We take in your whole health picture, to move you into a new state of wellbeing. Chinese medicine is much more than just reducing symptoms. We want you to FEEL better, to have better quality of life and to enjoy your life. It is a wholistic medicine system, aiming to bring you into a state of balance and ease.
07/04/2019

Acupuncture and IVF – embryo transfer and supportive treatment

Many women contact the clinic after hearing about acupuncture helping to improve IVF outcomes, whether having done their own research or having been recommended by their fertility specialist. At this clinic, we take a whole-person approach to IVF support, working with body-mind strategies to increase wellbeing and reduce stress.
06/04/2019

Tennis elbow: Managing pain and function

"Tennis Elbow" is the most common chronic musculoskeletal pain condition affecting the elbow. Despite its name, only 5-10% of sufferers play racquet sports. Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment planning is extremely flexible and pragmatic. It has always been a very individualised medicine, aiming to take in the whole of a person's experience.
06/04/2019

Managing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

IBS has unknown cause and is separated according to symptoms in the Western approach. In Chinese medicine, people with IBS may be assessed according to whether their symptoms are worsened with stress or whether their IBS began with a gastro infection.
03/04/2019

Acupuncture for osteoarthritis of the knee

Various Chinese medicine therapies have been studied as treatments for osteoarthritis of the knee. Some have been found in large-scale studies to be effective for relieving pain, increasing function and improving quality of life in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. Effective therapies for osteoarthritis of the knee include acupuncture, electroacupuncture and moxibustion.
03/04/2019

Acupuncture for chronic low back pain

Acupuncture can be an effective treatment for chronic low back pain, bringing improvements in pain intensity and function. Results may be enhanced by combining acupuncture with other therapies. Chinese medicine looks at the whole person, working with body and mind to bring about positive changes.
31/03/2019

Acupuncture for migraine – treatment and prevention

A recent high-level review investigating acupuncture for migraine treatment suggests that adding acupuncture to symptomatic treatment of attacks reduces the frequency of headaches, and that the effect of acupuncture may be similar to migraine prophylaxis (prevention) drugs, but with fewer adverse effects.