Cenacle Treatment Centre

Pregnancy

Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture can help you remain healthy throughout your pregnancy. With no contraindications, TCM can treat many conditions for which there is rarely another lasting or effective remedy.

Being pregnancy can be troublesome as disturbed qi occurs during pregnancy, sometimes, serious conditions like miscarriage may happen. With the help of acupuncture and herbal medicine, energy level could be increased, immune system improved, the whole system get used to ever changing hormones. TCM has been proven effective for alleviating morning sickness and preventing miscarriage.

Fertility in Women & Men

Either for those who have been diagnosed with infertility due to different reasons or those who merely want a little help to achieve natural conception, there is a new solution – Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

Womens Health

In Chinese philosophy, yin-yang theory is the fundamental law of the universe. The inter-change between yin and yang explains everything. It applies to women's menstrual cycle as well.

The balance between estrogen and progesterone ensures normal female reproductive ability. Disorders, such as irregular menstruation, endometriosis, even infertility, may occur when there is an imbalance between these two hormones.

Grow your own drugs

Herbalist James Wong gives us an insight into growing and using natural remedies, follow the link to watch his latest series.

Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a complete system of medicine that treats mental, emotional and physical illness. Homeopathic medicines are chosen to treat the whole person, because homeopaths believe the mind and body operate as one, and you cannot treat one part of the body without affecting the whole. Medicines are chosen to fit all the characteristics of the patient, so physical disorders are considered in relation to the individual’s mental and emotional state.

Homeopathy works on a principle known as ‘the law of similars’ or ‘like cures like’. This law states that a substance that can cause a disease can also relieve it.
The founding father of homeopathy

Mind Detox

Most of us are aware of the importance of detoxifying the body, getting rid of all the toxins in the system which make us feel sluggish, effect the immune system, usually after Christmas or periods of over indulgence or even after an infection (which could have originally been caused by excessive toxins in the body).

Today there are various ways of having a physical detox. For instance some eastern cultures recommend fasting for one day a week (recommended with medical supervision) then there is yoga, massage and even colonic irrigation.

Good herb guide for the gut

Basil: acts on the digestive system easing wind, stomach cramps colic,indigestion. Best used fresh

Bay: useful for settling disorders of the upper digestive tract and promoting the absorption of food. Best used dried.

Fennel :having mild diuretic qualities the seeds help to relieve fluid retention as well as soothing stomach pain stimulating the appetite, leaves seeds and bulbs can all be used.  

The bran revolution in perspective

In 1972, a British doctor, Dr Dennis Burkitt, began to publicise his theory that constipation, caused by lack of fibre in the diet, went on to be a factor in diverticulitis - a form of colonic inflammation and even led to cancer of the bowel.
Around the same time, commander T.L. Cleave, a surgeon, suggested that the low-fibre diet served upto seamen caused constipation - the biggest health problem in the Royal Navy and that this could b a precursor of varicose veins and haemorrhoids.
As a result of all the publicity, bran became almost an obsession with some people. Unfortunately excessive consumption of bran can cause problems such as abdominal bloating and flatulence. Bran contains a substance called phytic acic which inhibits the body's absorbtion of certain minerals, especially iron, to the extent that lare intakes ofbran can contribute to amenia.

Five steps to kick start your bowel

Ensure that your intake of fibre is high, because fibre in the presence of water forms a soft stool which stimulates the gut to contract.

Make sure you aim to drink at lest two litres of water a day to assist the fibre in your food to stimulate the gut.

Although small doses of caffeine stimulates the small muscles of the intestine to contract ( which can help to alleviate short term constipation) too much can dehydrate the body making the problem worse. two to three cups a day should be the maximum.

Homeopathic Alternatives

Certain homeopathic remedies are prepared in great dilution from tissues infected with a particular bacterium or virus. Termed nosodes, they have been used in some cases to help prevent infection e.g cholera nosode. Alternatively, a remedy may be used to treat the illness in question e.g china for maleria.