Welcome to Five Phase Acupuncture Jacqueline Richardson Five Element Acupuncturist If you have reached this page, you may be wondering whether acupuncture can help you. I hope you will find the answer in the following pages, if not, please contact me and we can discuss things further with no obligation. Introduction Acupuncture is a tried and tested system of complementary medicine. The Chinese and other eastern cultures have been using acupuncture to restore, promote and maintain good health for thousands of years. Nowadays more and more people are finding this long established therapy can offer an effective solution to all manner of today’s ills. Acupuncture is now widely used and accepted all over the world and in the UK there are currently over 3000 qualified acupuncturists registered with the British Acupuncture Council, the leading professional body in the UK.  Five Phase Acupuncture Five Phase Acupuncture takes its name from a certain style of acupuncture known as Five Element Acupuncture. The Five Elements are also more aptly known as the ‘five forces’ or the ‘five phases’ and are symbolised in Classical Chinese texts as Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal. They represent the cycles of nature, the phases or stages of becoming, each feeding the next one in a constant process. It is easy to visualise this cycle. Think of a tree with the bare twigs of winter, the growth of leaves bursting forth in the spring (Wood), the radiance and flowering in the summer (Fire), the ripening of fruit and seeds in the late summer (Earth) and the dying back, returning to the earth in the autumn (Metal), to come round again to the quiescence of the winter phase (Water). This cycle lies at the very heart of all early agrarian civilizations and is an underlying concept of Taoist philosophy from which Chinese medicine evolved. The Five Element practitioner will look for disharmony in the energy of the body through various diagnostic techniques. They will look for blocks in the flow of Qi energy and establish which of the Five Elements is in distress and how that affects the person as a whole. Acupuncture points are chosen to best enable a person to move into a more healthy relationship both with themselves and their environment. For more information on Five Element Acupuncture please follow the links: |  Jacqueline Richardson About Me I trained at the College of Traditional Acupuncture, which specialises in Five Element Acupuncture. I graduated with a First Class Honours degree and am now a full member of the British Acupuncture Council with full professional indemnity and public liability insurance. I have two clinics in Malvern and Upton-on-Severn and am also a founder member of the newly formed Warwickshire BAcC Regional Acupuncture Group which gives me the opportunity for Continuing Professional Development. I practice T’ai Chi Chuan and take part in regular classes in Malvern with David Clyant and I have also studied reflexology. My interest in health and healing within different cultural contexts stems back many years beginning with my first degree in Sociology/Women’s Studies and culminated in qualifying as an acupuncturist. I have a background in mental health and substance misuse and am currently employed part time as a substance misuse counselor, specialising in the use of auricular and traditional acupuncture within this field.  |
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