Call us: 06 843 3888
Napier Acupuncture Clinic
193 Kennedy Road, Napier
Trading Hours
Monday to Friday
8am - 7pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm
Welcome to Napier Acupuncture!
Established in 1990, we have provided quality acupuncture care to thousands of Hawkes Bay residents. Partners James McNeill and Jacqui Kiddle have been closely involved in the development of the profession in New Zealand and are committed to bringing you the benefits of our experience in a safe, caring and nurturing environment
ABOUT ACUPUNCTURE
Acupuncture is an ancient medicine with its own unique system of diagnosis that includes mind, body and emotions.
It can provide health solutions that sometimes elude modern medicine. When this understanding is combined with experience and skill, it's a powerful tool indeed.
Acupuncture is a main treatment modality of Traditional Chinese Medicine and involves the placement of fine needles at key locations on the body to attain a therapeutic effect.
Points are chosen from many hundreds located along twelve main energy pathways or channels which cover the entire body. This energy spreads out like a web of interconnecting bioelectric energy.
Another way of understanding the concept of energy talked of in acupuncture is to see the body as a musical instrument.
The energy channels are like the strings of a cello and the acupuncture points are the notes.
By correctly understanding where the system is out of tune, the right notes on the strings are used in just the right way to bring the body back into balance.
BENEFITS
Acupuncture is a safe, drug free method used to treat many conditions. For example both acute and chronic pain associated with low back pain, neck pain and other joint and muscle pain are benefited. An acupuncturist may feel the pulse and check out the tongue as part of the unique diagnostic system. This enables treatment of a wide range of other conditions such as respiratory, cardio-vascular, gastro-intestinal, women’s health issues to name but a few. Emotions can also be balanced helping with stress, depression and anxiety. Often a deep relaxation accompanies acupuncture treatment.
ACC covers much of the acupuncture cost for injury treatment by members of AcupunctureNZ.
There are over one hundred
different injuries contained In the ACC's Acupuncture Treatment Profiles.
CONDITIONS
Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine are effective in a
wide range of common ailments. Both acute and chronic pain
associated with low back and neck strain, sports injuries, shoulder
and elbow injuries. Also general pain and stress disorders respond
well, as do women's disorders and gastro-intestinal problems.
The practice of inserting fine needles into specific points on the body to facilitate healing. There are over 365 main acupuncture points found along specific pathways, each with their own time-proven function.
The practice of warming or heating of individual acupuncture points or regions of the body using the herb Artemisia. This has been combined with acupuncture for many hundreds of years.
The practice of applying specially designed suction cups to the skin most commonly used on the back and shoulders to relieve tension and increase blood circulation.
The practice of combining medicinal plant and mineral substances to create a therapeutic prescription. These prescriptions have been used over a millennia in traditional Chinese medicine and are drug free and easy to take.
Electro-acupuncture is a way of giving added gentle stimulation to a group of acupuncture points to enhance their affects and is often used in treating muscle and joint pain.
This is a form of massage which takes into account the acupuncture and point diagnosis system and is often used in conjunction with acupuncture, cupping and moxibustion
ABOUT US
James McNeill
James has over thirty five years experience in Chinese medicine having gained qualifications in Australia, China and New Zealand. He treats a wide range of ailments in his practice and enjoys helping with all the physical/emotional/mental aspects of health in general.
James also had a lot to do with the profession: he was president of Acupuncture New Zealand and was a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee for Complementary and Alternative Health tasked with advising government.
James is an award-winning author of Spirit of Nature: The Harmony of the Five Elements with David Bell, a singer/songwriter and father of three fabulous children. He is also a Qi Gong practitioner and is often found first thing in the morning with his dogs by the Tuki Tuki river practising this type of moving meditation, which greatly helps his acupuncture practice too.
Jacqui Kiddle
Jacqui Kiddle has over 30 years experience in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Jacqui has a Bachelor of Science from Canterbury University graduating in Psychology and then going on to study Traditional Chinese Medicine at the NSW College of Natural Therapies in Sydney. This included an internship at the Zhejiang Medical Hospital in Hangzhou, China. Jacqui graduated in 1984.
Jacqui particularly enjoys treating fertility and pregnancy issues but what she finds most rewarding is connecting with people to make lifestyle changes so that they can better manage their own health issues. Jacqui is also Qi Gong practitioner and an artist.
Rebecca Liu
Rebecca has a Bachelor of Chinese medicine from Dalian Medical University in China and is an experienced practitioner, specialising in acupuncture now for over eight years.
Apart from treating musculoskeletal injury and pain, Rebecca has much experience in treating neurological disease, headaches, facial paralysis, back pain, insomnia and digestive disorders.
Rebecca will explain fully her approach with you. Part of her expertise is in Chinese massage (Tui Na) which is often combined with treatment to enhance results. Rebecca has a caring nature and can guide you with the right exercises and lifestyle advice.
Catherine Mead
Catherine’s love of Chinese medicine was sparked nearly 25 years ago when, in chronic pain, she limped into a TCM clinic and walked out feeling better.The practitioner she saw then told her he was going to teach her how to heal herself and became her mentor.
For the next 7 years she trained with him in Tai Chi, Qigong, Tui Na massage, Meditation and Taoist philosophy, before going on to complete her degree in Acupuncture at the London College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
Since then she has used her skills working with people with special needs and has teacher training in Qigong from the British Shiatsu College.Her ambition is to get Qigong as widely recognised as a self-healing modality as yoga, and aims to share her love of these ancient arts in doing what that first teacher did for her – teaching people how to heal themselves.
Joseph Hong
Joseph has a Bachelor degree in Chinese medicine from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (2005-2009), He has has training at Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China, from December 2009 to June 2013, where he gained clinical training in various departments based on acupuncture, including Ophthalmology. He has also worked in Belgium, from 2013 to 2017, where he focused on pain management through acupuncture.
Joseph is new to Napier and looking forward to all that the Bay has to offer. "If someone isn't finding relief with current medical knowledge, it's worth giving acupuncture and herbal medicine a try" says Joseph "More and more patients are requesting treatment for issues and symptoms that aren't effectively addressed by modern Western medicine and Chinese medicine only serves to complement conventional treatment".
Joseph's approach is to involve the patient fully in their treatment, explaining everything thoroughly and is thoroughly committed to achieving the best desired outcome for you.
CONTACT US
PRIVACY STATEMENT
Your privacy is important to us and this statement was generated with requirements of the Privacy Act 2020 in mind.
We only collect the minimum personal information from you to provide a better service including information about your:
name and date of birth
contact information
billing or purchase information
treatment
We collect your personal information in order to:
comply with minimum patient record keeping standards and Accident Compensation Corporation requirements if any.
be able to contact you if need be and to verify your identity if you require copy of any information held by us.
We keep your treatment information safe by storing it in our encrypted Cliniko practice management system and only allowing certain staff to see it. .
You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong.
If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact us at napieracupuncture@gmail.com, or 06 843 3888, or write to us at 193 Kennedy Road, Napier 4110.
CHICKEN GINGER SOUP FLU BRU
An old Chinese recuperative remedy
Ingredients:
One whole chicken
4-6 cloves garlic
One large piece of root ginger
One bunch of spring onions
One half bunch of silverbeet (including the white stems)
One leek
Any other vegetables as desired (potatoes, carrots etc.)
Method
Skin the chicken, remove all visible fat.
Quarter and boil until flesh turns white.
Remove chicken, bone and replace meat and large bones
back into the broth.
Cut ginger into long thin slices about the thickness of a gold coin
and add along with all the other vegetables ( this is so you can remove
the slices from each serving if you don't want to eat them, you can put
back into the soup ).
Simmer for one hour and serve ( tastes better the next day )
Add chicken stock if desired.
Dosage
Take twice daily eg. for lunch and as an entree for dinner.
Take for five to seven days (can add fresh vegetables to the soup
as needed).
YUM!