Rebecca Hodson Acupuncture

11/09/2026

Really interesting programme on BBC Radio 4 about the discovery of the interstitium, which has gained a lot of attention from Western scientists in recent years, but which has many parallels going back thousands of years in Chinese Medicine theory and its understanding of the movement of qi around the body.

Humans are around 70% water. But where is it all? And what's it doing inside us?

20/10/2023

23/08/2023

Strange for the article not to mention acupuncture, which has been using the stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system to improve health for thousands of years and much more relaxing than an ice bath!

Stimulating the vagus nerve is being hyped as the simplest way to reduce stress, dampen anxiety – and could even curb obesity. But what exactly is it? And how does tickling your ear help?

22/05/2022

Wow! Amazing article on acupuncture 👏
https://time.com/6171247/acupuncture-health-benefits-research/

04/01/2022

"A doctor who sets out to “heal” is in truth more like a gardener who sets out to “grow” – actually, nature does almost all the work."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/we-need-to-respect-the-process-of-healing-a-gp-on-the-overlooked-art-of-recovery

Excellent article on the process of recovery.

The long read: As I embark on a third year of general practice under Covid, I am more conscious than ever that recovery is different for every illness and every patient

29/10/2021

Evidence Based Summaries: Acupuncture as a Therapeutic Treatment for Anxiety
🔗 https://www.evidencebasedacupuncture.org/acupuncture-anxiety/

👉 it is exciting to know that studies show has an effect on both the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS).

✅ - has been shown to improve the body’s ability to cope with stress through improving Heart Rate Variability (HRV).

😡 When the body is under stress, an area of the brain called the hypothalamus releases neurochemicals, and research shows that acupuncture can calm this response 🎯

🥰 Acupuncture has also been shown to increase the release of endorphins, the body’s own ‘feel-good’ chemicals, which play an important role in the regulation of physical and emotional stress responses such as pain, heart rate, blood pressure, and digestive function.

🙌 All of these acupuncture mechanisms have a direct effect on reducing anxiety 👍

Please visit the website for the full evidence summary and feel free to share! Thank you for your support and donations - it helps us to continue producing educational materials for the community 👏👏👏

25/04/2021

Very interesting study

Often used in traditional Chinese medicine, a plant compound called salvianolic acid B, or SAB, has been found to reduce lung scarring (fibrosis) and blood clotting when given in an inhaled form to a rat model of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). These findings suggest that SAB should be...

07/04/2021

This guideline covers assessing all chronic pain (chronic primary pain, chronic secondary pain, or both) and managing chronic primary pain in people aged 16

12/02/2021

Happy New Year - Chinese Year of the Metal Ox

19/11/2020

Good to see this important link being made. Hopefully it will mean the focus on post-viral fatigue that has come about because of the pandemic will help both those suffering with ME/CFS and Long Covid.

As more people suffer lasting symptoms from Covid including fatigue, ME patient advocates fear they will get bad advice