Acquaviva Treatments

16/11/2025

Honouring China, the source of acupuncture on World Acupuncture Day. 🙏🇨🇳 谢谢

10/11/2025

It’s Acupuncture Awareness Week 2025 and the BAcC has a big announcement to make! Launching today is a brand new tool for regulated healthcare professionals ‘Collaborate with Confidence: why chose a British Acupuncture Council acupuncturist?’ designed to help doctors and other healthcare practitioners refer patients to our accredited members.

You can learn more about it at acupuncture.org.uk or screenshot the QR code in the slides to help take you straight there.

BAcC are the UK’s largest, member-led, professional body for traditional acupuncturists with nearly 3,000 members who belong to an accredited register, regulated and approved by the Professional Standards Authority for Health & Social Care (PSA).

06/11/2025

03/11/2025

This film encapsulates my reasons for my change of career. I was never entirely happy working as an engineer, I was good at it but not ecstatic to go to work every day. It really was a job I did until I could stop.

I worked for some years as a yoga teacher and massage therapist. I knew I don’t have the physicality to continue deep tissue massage late in life, so I was looking for something less physically challenging but more intellectually stimulating. I had no idea I would become so completely engulfed in Chinese philosophy and every aspect of my life has changed as a consequence.

The Japanese call it Ikigai, like dharma, it’s my reason for being. I deeply enjoy my continued studies and it is fulfilling to help patients on my clinic days. That’s the reason these centenarians are contentedly working, they have no reason to drop their passion to retire. Their self care, community, physical exercise and accessible healthcare supports them so they can continue to comfortably work. They are highly skilled from decades of dedication to their craft.

I don’t know if I’ll be lucky enough to live to 100, but if I do, I know I’d love to still be working.

01/11/2025

This is a fascinating article. The shift in technology from iron to steel meant needles could be made smaller, more flexible and didn't need to be sharpened so frequently. Crucially they are less prone to rust. So acupuncture was less surgical, the patient's body isn't opened up and the modern much less painful needling techniques became possible.

Unlike these, my needles are single use and disposable. I find ultra fine needles are very popular, which are about 1/4 of the size of needles used for vaccinations and around 1/2 the size of tattoo needles. Most points are completely pain free if needled by an expert. Points closer to the bone can be momentarily ouchy, but will ease.

You are in charge of your own treatment and if it's really uncomfortable you can ask for a needle to be removed.

Needle-like artifacts unearthed from the famed tomb of the Marquis of Haihun in East China's Jiangxi Province have been confirmed to be the world's earliest known steel acupuncture needles, marking a pivotal moment in the history of traditional Chinese medicine, according to a document from the prov...

30/10/2025