Elissa Pelling - Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Women’s and children’s health and wellbeing

Chinese Medicine can assist with a wide range of women’s and children’s health conditions, and can help you to maintain your general health and wellness. For many women, conditions such as the symptoms
associated with menopause, menstrual disorders, abdominal pain or bloating, digestive disorders,migraines and headaches, stress and anxiety, urinary tract infections and fatigue, to name a few, can be alleviated.

Many common childhood illnesses, too, can be treated safely and effectively using a combination of massage, herbal medicine and acupuncture. Children can be treated with laser acupuncture rather than needles.

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Fertility & IVF

For thousands of years, traditional Chinese medicine has been used to improve male and female infertility. Today, these ancient techniques can be used to help couples to conceive naturally or to improve their success
with assisted reproductive technologies.Preconception programs tailored to suit you include acupuncture, herbal medicine and advice on lifestyle
changes to improve egg and sperm quality, alleviate stress and regulate hormones. Chinese medicine can enhance the motility and morphology of sperm, which aids male fertility; it can also help to alleviate conditions
that cause female infertility, including polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis, salpingitis and fibroids. Treatment increases blood circulation in the ovaries and uterus, which increases fertility, so it can even help where there seems to be no reason for infertility.

Recent research also demonstrates that Chinese medicine in combination with IVF methods significantly increases rates of conception. Individually-designed treatments can include pre-conception health care for healthy
embryos, acupuncture before and after embryo transfer to promote blood flow and encourage the body to accept the pregnancy, reducing the risk of miscarriage.

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Pregnancy

Traditional Chinese medicine can help you to prepare to welcome a healthy, happy baby into your world.

Minor pregnancy complaints, including morning sickness, pubis symphysis disorder, back pain,anaemia, constipation, heartburn, and urinary tract
infections can be safely and effectively alleviated with Chinese medicine.

Research shows that weekly treatments of acupuncture, starting at 36 weeks, can aid in cervical ripening, reducing both the duration of labour for women giving birth for the first time and the incidence of medical inductions, epidurals and caesareans. Acupuncture can also help to relieve insomnia, anxiety, fatigue and general aches and pains. It is also very successful in
turning malpositioned or breech babies.

In the challenging transition from pregnancy to early motherhood, treatments facilitate healing and help with breastfeeding and exhaustion. “Mother warming”, for example, an ancient Chinese treatment given two weeks
after the birth, aids restoration of the mother’s health and energy, and is a relaxing and rejuvenating practice you can experience together with your baby.

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Giving birth

"Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers – strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”
Barbara Katz Rothman

Ideally, women are nurtured through pregnancy, enabling them to find their own physical, emotional and spiritual resources to birth instinctively. Instead, in this climate of increasingly pathologised pregnancy and birth, women
often find themselves on a seemingly inexorable ride to more and more medical intervention. With the right information and support, women who want to achieve a normal physiological birth can make informed choices
about care providers, and about the medical procedures that will be offered.

I am passionate about using my training to help you to negotiate some of the decisions and difficulties of pregnancy and childbirth. I offer appointments to
discuss birth planning, and resources and information on interventions and procedures, birth classes, doulas, midwives and other support, to help make your birthing experience fulfilling and empowering, and to give you and your baby a great start on your journey together. I can also teach your birth support partners the techniques of acupressure to help relieve your pain during labour and childbirth.

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Qualifications

B. Chinese Med. (Acup & Herbs) (Hons)
Rhea Dempsy's 'Birthing Wisdom'