Welcome to the Newly Upgrade Auckland Student Clinic!

The Auckland Acupuncture and Hebal Medicine Clinic is located at Ground Floor, 321 Great South Road, Greenlane. There are seventeen clinical praactice rooms plus a Chinese medicine pharmacy and the clinic is open to the public Monday to Fridays from 9.30am - 7.10pm.

Please call reception on 09-580 2376 to make a booking.

What to Expect: Acupuncture Clinic

• Initial consultation takes approximate1 hour and involves a detailed case history taking of your present and past well-being. Using the traditional examinations of looking, palpating, questioning and listening, your practitioner will be guide d to an understanding of how to approach your individual health-care.
• From this initial session we work with you to develop a treatment plan which will suit your lifestyle and meet your individual need for health care.
• Follow up sessions are for about 45 minutes and include consultation and treatment. Treatment may include acupuncture (needle), moxibustion (herbal heat treatment), cupping and guasha (external skin therapy).
• In addition to your treatments at the clinic your practitioner may advise small lifestyle adjustments designed to support the healing effect of treatment.
 

Treatment Techniques

The art of acupuncture involves the insertion of fine needles (about the width of a human hair) into specific sites on the body which restores the balanced circulation of blood and life-force.

Moxibustion is a herbal heat treatment which involves warming specific sites on the body by burning herbs close to the skin - this treatment warms and supports the tissues of the body to promote healing. This has a very soothing affect. Cupping, as shown in this photograph, is a method commonly used in Asia to draw cold from the body and to relieve muscular aches.

For people who don't want to try acupuncture, acupressure (acupuncture without needles) or tuina (Chinese massage) may be used as an alternative.