By Gordon Mullins, Fertility Acupuncturist & Meditation Teacher 23+ years specialising in fertility and IVF support in Cork If you’ve been trying for a baby for the last few months and every month seems to end with your period arriving, there’s probably one question going around and around in your mind, every hour of every […]
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Acupuncture for Labour Induction in Cork: What You Need to Know By Gordon Mullins | Aculife Acupuncture Cork If you’re approaching your due date and wondering whether acupuncture can help prepare your body for labour, you’re certainly not alone. It’s a question I hear regularly in the clinic: “Can acupuncture help bring on labour?” After
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Before you Start your IVF How to Prepare Yourself Emotionally for IVF By Gordon Mullins | Fertility Acupuncturist & Meditation Teacher Reading time: 8 minutes The Preparation Your Doctor Won’t Give You I’ve sat with thousands of women as they prepare for IVF. The protocol conversation is always the same: medications, timing, appointments, what to
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One of my favourite treatments in clinic is when my patients have come to me for a number of months to get pregnant, we then support the first trimester of the pregnancy with one or two sessions of acupuncture typically at week six and week eight. There are of course other approach, however this is
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Acupuncture is amazing during your first trimester. Not only is it amazing it is essential. There are two main acupuncture plans that we follow in our clinic, where we see pregnant patients at week 6, week 8 and week 10, or week 7, week 9 and week 11. Whats the difference, well, honestly, scheduling for
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Endometriosis , oh Endometriosis, is something I see alot in my acupuncture clinic. And one of those diseases that gets misdiagnosed so often. It is a disease in which endometrial tissue which should normally only found in the endometrial lining inside the uterus, grows outside the uterus and implants most commonly on pelvic organs such
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So some exciting news for me, we have moved into our new clinic. We are now based in ‘The Natural Clinic, 23 Sullivan Quay, Cork’. Using the process of Cork direction, its directly across from ‘The Electric’ Bar. I am settled in now for a few months and its been wonderful. It’s been a big
One of the most common causes in my clinic that I see which might be defined as unexplained infertility by your own doctor is where the reproductive blood is out of balance. There are two main types of blood imbalances in Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. One is called blood deficiency…. The other blood stasis….. These
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The Spleen Energy is a wonderful Energy when in Balance…. You feel good… you feel full of energy…. You feel grounded and are in balance….. in mind and body. However the spleen organ and its energies is not the toughest of organs unlike the liver which is tough as ole boots….. In Chinese Medicine and
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Weird to say this but this is my absolute favourite organ…. Its definitely one of the most important organs as its the ‘Big Detoxor’ of the body….. And its a tough tough organ….. I describe to my patients a lot that the Liver is very much like the Refuse Truck that comes around to your
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