The consultation period lasts for 55 minutes and includes your practitioner taking your case, using a variety of diagnostic techniques and the actual treatment.

Each consultation is from $85. Any required additional supplementation is extra and your practitioner will discuss those needs with you if they believe it may be of greater benefit in your treatment.

Acupuncture is the application of fine sterile, disposable needles to the skin to enable the body to affect a change in order to achieve a greater health outcome.

Acupuncture points run along a series of meridians (like electrical wires) and act like switches. Sometimes these switches get turned off and need to be turned back on using acupuncture. This allows the power of the body to be delivered where it is needed so your body can function at its very best.

Acupuncture generally has some form of immediate effect on the body. Some people depending on their own sensitivity can feel the effect straight away while others may take some time to notice a change.

The actual treatment time in this case will last approximately 55minutes. This will not necessarily be the period of which you will have acupuncture needles left in as time is needed for observation, diagnosis and other treatment methods may be utilised. Generally the needles are left in for between 10 and 20 minutes.

Acupuncture is relatively safe when in the hands of a qualified and experienced practitioner. However it is important you are aware that there is a very minor risk of some cases causing pain, bleeding, bruising, pneumothorax or death.

There have been no known cases of death in Australia caused by acupuncture and only a small handful of cases of pneumothorax have occurred in Australia.

The risk of infection is very low and all practitioners adhere to a stringent code of skin penetration including the use of sterile one-use disposable needles.

The needles most people are used to receiving are the hypodermic variety we get if we need and injection from the doctor. As these needles need to deliver a liquid into the blood stream they are hollow and need to have a larger diameter.

The needles used in acupuncture are very fine and as such cause little, if any, sensation.

Some people find that Chinese herbs in raw or powdered form are too unpalatable to take. That's why we provide the option of herbal capsules as well as powdered herbs in order to meet your specific needs.