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Rozelle Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Centre, 698 Darling Street, Rozelle, Sydney (2025)

23/11/2025

Ever felt “butterflies” in your stomach when anxious? In Chinese medicine, the Stomach channel doesn’t just digest food—it digests life.
When worry or overthinking take over, the Stomach energy weakens, leading to fatigue, bloating, and that heavy, stuck feeling.
Acupuncture helps restore flow, grounding both digestion and emotions.

21/11/2025

Hyperemesis Gravidarum: holistic support matters

HG is more than extreme morning sickness — it can leave someone dehydrated, exhausted, and emotionally drained, often requiring hospital treatment for fluids and nutrition. Recovery and day-to-day management demand a comprehensive, holistic approach.

Acupuncture can be a vital part of this plan:

✨ Calms nausea & vomiting
Targeted points help regulate the digestive system, reducing the intensity and frequency of vomiting.

✨ Supports hydration & nutrient absorption
Improved circulation and digestive function can help the body make the most of what little food or fluids are tolerated.

✨ Protects mental and emotional wellbeing
HG takes a heavy toll on mood and resilience. Acupuncture encourages a calm nervous system, helping to reduce stress, anxiety, and exhaustion.

💛 Acupuncture is one tool among many — alongside medical care, hydration strategies, dietary support, and emotional support — to create a holistic care plan that truly addresses the physical and mental impacts of HG.

19/11/2025

Recovering after endometriosis surgery?
Acupuncture can be a gentle, effective way to support your body after surgery, helping with both physical and emotional recovery.

Here’s how it can help:

✨ Pain relief & shoulder tip discomfort
Surgery can cause pelvic pain, abdominal tension, and sometimes referred shoulder tip pain. Acupuncture stimulates your body’s natural pain-relief hormones and improves circulation, easing discomfort and supporting tissue healing.

✨ Digestive support & bloating relief
Post-surgery bloating, sluggish digestion, or trapped gas is common. Acupuncture helps regulate digestion, improve bowel function, and reduce abdominal discomfort, making recovery more comfortable.

✨ Supporting mobility & blood flow
Incisions, scar tissue, and pelvic tension can limit movement. Acupuncture promotes circulation, reduces inflammation, and helps restore functional mobility so you can move more comfortably during recovery.

✨ Hormonal balance & menstrual cycle support
After surgery, your cycles and periods may take time to return to normal. Acupuncture can support hormone regulation, menstrual regularity, and overall reproductive health as your body resets.

✨ Emotional wellbeing
Recovery can feel overwhelming. Acupuncture encourages nervous system regulation, helping to reduce stress, improve sleep, and support mood during the healing process.

16/11/2025

Acupuncture for Endometriosis Support

Research is increasingly showing that acupuncture may help with symptoms of endometriosis by:
• Reducing pelvic and menstrual pain through improved nervous system processing and release of endorphins.
• Helping regulate inflammation, blood flow and hormone-related factors (like prostaglandins) that play a role in endometrial lesion activity.
• Supporting overall well-being and quality of life so you feel more in control—not just suppressing pain but tuning into your body’s balance.

⚠️ While acupuncture isn’t a standalone cure, it can be a valuable complement to your medical care plan. Ask about how it can fit in alongside your treatment strategy.
💡 Talk with your practitioner about session frequency, what outcomes to expect, and how it integrates with your individual goals (pain relief, hormonal balance, fertility, etc).

13/11/2025

Postpartum healing after a caesarean deserves specialised support.
Whether your caesarean was planned or unexpected, your body has undergone major surgery and the transformation of birth all at once.

Acupuncture offers gentle, restorative support during recovery:

✨ Incision healing + scar comfort
Acupuncture improves circulation to the abdomen and pelvic area, bringing oxygen and nutrients to the tissues that need to repair to:
• reduce swelling and inflammation
• support nerve recovery and sensation around the scar
• minimise adhesions and long-term discomfort
• restore abdominal muscle function over time

✨ Hormonal balance + milk supply
Even with a caesarean, hormonal shifts for breastfeeding still kick in — but stress, pain, or delayed skin-to-skin can make it harder.
Acupuncture helps the body shift into rest and feed mode, supporting:
• prolactin → milk production
• oxytocin → bonding and let-down
It’s also helpful if your milk took longer to come in after birth.

✨ Pain relief + functional mobility
• incision tenderness and abdominal pain
• back and neck tension (from feeding and protective postures)
• improving mobility and confidence with movement
It works with your body’s own endorphins — natural pain relief without adding medication side effects.

✨ Digestive + pelvic recovery
Anaesthetic, surgery and reduced mobility can lead to bloating, sluggish bowels and trapped gas.
Acupuncture supports digestion, bowel function and pelvic circulation to help you feel more like yourself again.

✨ Mental health + emotional processing
A caesarean — especially if emergency or unplanned — can come with shock, fear, or trauma alongside joy.
Acupuncture creates a calm and regulating space that supports:
• mood stability
• sleep quality
• processing the birth experience
Your emotional recovery matters just as much as physical healing.

Whether you walked into theatre with a plan, or everything changed in a moment — you birthed your baby with strength and courage.
Acupuncture is one gentle way to help your body and mind integrate the experience, rebuild energy, and feel grounded as you step into life with your new little one.

11/11/2025

Postpartum healing is not just physical recovery — it’s adapting to a completely new rhythm of life. Acupuncture can play a powerful supportive role in those early weeks and months after birth.

Here’s how it helps:

✨ Supporting milk supply
Acupuncture can stimulate blood flow, reduce stress hormones, and encourage the release of prolactin and oxytocin — the hormones responsible for milk production and let-down. By helping the body shift out of “fight or flight” and into rest + digest + feed, it can support more consistent supply and a calmer feeding experience.
It can also help with tender breasts, mastitis recovery, and aiding milk flow if let-down is slow.

✨ Helping the body return to homeostasis
• uterine recovery and healing
• circulation and tissue repair
• balancing the endocrine system
• digestion and elimination (hello, post-birth tummy troubles 👋)
The goal is to gently guide the body back toward its new normal, not the pre-baby state — a stable, strong foundation for early parenting.

✨ Mental health + emotional regulation
Those early postpartum emotions can feel like a rollercoaster. Acupuncture encourages nervous system regulation, helping to reduce anxiety, improve sleep quality, and support mood by boosting endorphins and maintaining smoother shifts in hormones like progesterone and estrogen.
It’s a calm space where you get to pause — something that can feel rare with a newborn.

✨ Physical comfort + functional recovery
Your body has just done something epic. Acupuncture can help with:
• pelvic or lower back pain
• perineal or caesarean healing
• headaches and neck tension (hello, feeding posture )
• treating fatigue and supporting energy levels

✨ Rebuilding reserves
TCM views postpartum as a critical window to “refill the tank” — strengthening Qi and blood, supporting iron recovery, and nourishing the body after the huge output of pregnancy and birth. This has benefits not just now, but for long-term wellbeing.

Postpartum is not about bouncing back — it’s about rebuilding forward.
Acupuncture is one of the few care spaces designed to nurture you, as you nurture your baby

09/11/2025

From around 35–36 weeks, many people begin building a supportive routine that includes:

✨ Regular acupuncture
Acupuncture helps bring the nervous system into a calm, parasympathetic state — the same state we need for labour to begin and progress. When the body feels safe and relaxed, it can release oxytocin (our labour and love hormone) and endorphins (our natural pain relief). Specific points may also help:
• encourage the cervix to soften and shorten
• improve blood flow to the uterus and placenta
• support baby into an optimal position
All of this creates the hormonal environment that helps labour unfold more smoothly.

✨ Eating dates
Dates contain compounds that mimic the effects of prostaglandins, which help the cervix ripen. Research shows people who eat dates in late pregnancy are less likely to need induction and may have shorter labours with fewer interventions. Plus — delicious snack! 😋
Tip: aim for around 6 dates a day from 36 weeks (but adjust if you have gestational diabetes or dietary needs — check with your care provider).

✨ Raspberry leaf tea
This one doesn’t start labour — instead, it tones and strengthens the uterine muscle. Think of it as conditioning the uterus so contractions can be more coordinated and effective when they begin. It may support a smoother active labour and reduce the need for additional augmentation.
Tip: start with 1 cup daily from 32–34 weeks and slowly increase, checking with your midwife or doctor if you’re unsure.

None of these are “push a button and baby arrives” tools — your little one still chooses their birthday 😌 — but they empower your body in those final weeks, helping you feel calm, prepared and supported as birth approaches. Always chat with your midwife or healthcare provider before starting anything new.

You deserve to enter labour feeling strong, informed and confident.

06/11/2025

We hear lots of myths about acupuncture—so let’s clear a few up

💭 “It’s painful.”
Not true! The needles are as fine as a strand of hair—most people feel only a gentle tap or a warm, tingling sensation.

💭 “It’s only for pain relief.”
While it’s excellent for pain, acupuncture also supports sleep, digestion, hormones, fertility, stress, and emotional wellbeing.

💭 “It’s not scientific.”
Modern research shows acupuncture influences the nervous, hormonal, and circulatory systems—helping the body restore balance naturally.

💭 “You need lots of sessions before it works.”
Many people notice benefits after just one or two treatments, though long-term change builds over time.

💡 Fun fact: Acupuncture is one of the world’s oldest continuous healthcare systems—and it’s still evolving today alongside modern medicine.

04/11/2025

Grief doesn’t just live in the mind—it’s felt in the body too. Tightness in the chest, shallow breath, fatigue, or that heavy feeling that never seems to lift. Acupuncture offers a quiet space for the body to process what words cannot.

💆‍♀️ How it helps:

Calms the nervous system and supports emotional release

Restores energy after emotional exhaustion

Helps regulate sleep, appetite, and breath

💡 Interesting fact: In Chinese medicine, grief is associated with the Lungs—the organ of letting go. Supporting Lung energy can gently help the body move through loss, creating space for renewal and peace.

02/11/2025

Acupuncture isn’t just for back pain or stress relief — its reach goes far beyond what most people imagine.

Some surprisingly helpful areas:

Hiccups that just won’t stop

Night sweats and vivid dreams

Restless legs or twitching muscles

Post-concussion recovery

Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)

Excessive sweating or hot palms

Loss of smell or taste

Emotional release after grief

Jet lag or seasonal adjustment

💡 Interesting fact: Traditional Chinese Medicine views every symptom—no matter how small—as a clue to how your energy is flowing. Even the most obscure imbalance can be gently rebalanced through the right acupuncture points.

01/11/2025

Acupuncture isn’t just for back pain or stress relief — its reach goes far beyond what most people imagine.

Some surprisingly helpful areas:

Hiccups that just won’t stop

Night sweats and vivid dreams

Restless legs or twitching muscles

Post-concussion recovery

Tinnitus (ringing in the ears)

Excessive sweating or hot palms

Loss of smell or taste

Emotional release after grief

Jet lag or seasonal adjustment

💡 Interesting fact: Traditional Chinese Medicine views every symptom—no matter how small—as a clue to how your energy is flowing. Even the most obscure imbalance can be gently rebalanced through the right acupuncture points.

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