Simon provides a high quality and personalised service guided by the holistic approach of acupuncture to treat the mind, body and spirit of the patient.
Simon will ask you a series of questions regarding your health, lifestyle and general wellbeing and take your pulse and look at your tongue. This will be used to formulate a diagnosis and treatment plan unique to you.
You will be treated with acupuncture during your first treatment. Very fine, sterile, single use, disposable needles will be inserted into your body. The needling experience is totally different from having an injection, although you will feel some sensations including a dull ache or tingling. The needles will be left in for about twenty minutes. Simon will recommend a course of treatments and provide you with lifestyle, exercise and dietary advice where appropriate.
The number of treatments you need will depend on how long you have been ill and the seriousness of the illness.
In the great physician's therapeutic practice, he must make his mind serene and his will firm, so that he desires nothing and demands nothing. First he attains a compassionate and merciful frame of mind and vows his willingness to save all sentient beings from suffering. If someone endangered by sickness comes and asks him for help, he may not be concerned whether the patient is noble or humble, poor or rich, old or young, beautiful or ugly, enemy or intimate, foolish or wise. All must be treated equally, and thought of as though they were his nearest kin. — Sun Si-miao (7th century)