Acupuncture is an ancient system of healing that originated in China over three thousand years ago. It is a complete system of medicine that has been used to treat ailments and disease, as well as to enhance recuperative power and immunity. Acupuncture is effective in a wide variety of conditions through its power to stimulate the body's own healing process. This overall therapeutic effect is one of its greatest strengths, in that not only is the presenting complaint helped but often treatment results in the patient gaining a greater enjoyment in life and a feeling of well being.

An acupuncturist may be consulted by people with specific symptoms or conditions, such as pain, anxiety, arthritis, eczema, sports injuries, hay fever, asthma, migraine, high blood pressure, menstrual disorders, intestinal problems or pregnancy management and delivery.

While extensive practice and research has shown that acupuncture is effective in helping people with such conditions as well as with many others, it does more than simply relieve symptoms. The aim of acupuncture is to treat the whole patient and to restore the balance between the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the individual.

In traditional acupuncture, since all illness is considered the result of an imbalance of energy, treatment can benefit almost any ill person as long as the degenerative process in the tissues of the body is not too extensive. Many people also have acupuncture as a preventative treatment or because they feel unwell in themselves but are not 'ill' in the Western sense.