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Acupuncture - Pine Rivers TCM
Acupuncture - Pine Rivers TCM
Shop 4, 1387 Anzac Ave, Kallangur QLD 4503 | 07 3419 5342
Pine Rivers TCM is located in Kallangur, QLD. The clinic provides comprehensive Traditional Chinese Medicine services, including Acupuncture, Auriculotherapy, Moxibustion, Cupping and Chinese Herbal Medicine.
Practitioners, Michael Brown and Alicia Ye, are highly skilled and have over 15 years experience in both Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine. We are both registered with AHPRA / CMBA and member of AACMA. We treat a wide range of conditions and age groups.
How to make an appointment with us?
How to make an appointment with us?
Contact your practitioner Michael Brown (0422 117 515) or Alicia Ye (0423 097 424)
Booking via our website: https://www.pineriverstcm.com.au/appointment
Ring the clinic 07 3419 5342
Michael is available on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Alicia is available on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
We are closed on Sundays and Public Holidays.
Public Holidays in QLD
Public Holidays in QLD
2025
01/01/2025 Wednesday, New Year's Day
27/01/2025 Monday, Australia Day
18/04/2025 Friday, Good Friday
19/04/2025 Saturday, The day after Good Friday
20/04/2025 Sunday, Easter Sunday
21/04/2025 Monday, Easter Monday
25/04/2025 Friday, Anzac Day
05/05/2025 Monday, Labour Day
06/10/2025 Monday, King's Birthday
24/12/2025 Wednesday, Christmas Eve
25/12/2025 Thursday, Christmas Day
26/12/2025 Friday, Boxing Day
Queensland school holidays and term dates
Queensland school holidays and term dates
2024
Term 1: Monday 22 January – Thursday 28 March
Term 2: Monday 15 April – Friday 21 June
Term 3: Monday 08 July – Friday 13 September
Term 4: Monday 30 September – Friday 13 December
What is TCM?
What is TCM?
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) dates back thousands of years and is a system of primary health care that includes acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, remedial massage (anmo Tui Na), exercise (Qi Gong), and dietary therapy.
What is Acupuncture?
What is Acupuncture?
What is Chinese Herbal Medicine?
What is Chinese Herbal Medicine?
What is Cupping?
What is Cupping?
“Where there’s stagnation, there will be pain. Remove the stagnation, and you remove the pain.” 通则不痛，痛则不通。
The old Chinese medical maxim holds that pain results from the congestion, stagnation, and blockage of Qi, or vital energy, vital fluids, lymph, phlegm, and blood. If pain is the essence of disease, then suffering is a result of obstructed or irregular flow in the body. Chinese cupping is therefore a method of breaking up the blockage to restore the body’s natural flow of energy.
What is Moxibustion?
What is Moxibustion?
Moxa, or moxibustion, in which burned moxa made from dried mugwort is applied directly or indirectly onto the body to facilitate healing. The moxa herb or mugwort herb is ground and then used indirectly with acupuncture needles, or directly on a patient's skin only if necessary. Moxibustion can dredge meridians and regulate qi-blood. Different from needles and drugs, characteristics of moxibustion in materials and using fire determine that its efficacy is inclined to warming and nourishing. So, moxibustion is often applied in deficiency-cold syndrome, such as Muscle Soreness or Strain, Menstrual Cramps, Chronic Pain and Arthritis, Weakened Immune System, Fatigue, though some excess-heat syndrome can also use it.
Moxa has the thermal effects, radiation effects and pharmacological actions on body. Moxibustion can not be separated from the theory of TCM, therefore patients have more benefits from Moxa’s comprehensive effects than using heat pack or infrared heat lamp.
What is Auriculotherapy?
What is Auriculotherapy?
Auriculotherapy, or auricular needling, or auricular therapy, or ear acupuncture, or auriculoacupuncture is a form of alternative medicine based on the idea that the ear is a microsystem which reflects the entire brain represented on the auricle, the outer portion of the ear.
There are as many as 200 acupuncture points on the outer ear, each point named generally after areas of our anatomy: mouth, stomach, liver, heart, lungs and so on.
The ear acts like a switchboard to the brain and each point triggers electrical impulses, from ear, via the brain, to the area of the body being treated.
Patients can be treated with needles and/or ear seeds (including magnetic balls or plant seeds) applied to the ears. The seeds can be left in place to stimulate the acupressure points and allow them to benefit from the effects of acupuncture after they leave the clinic. The patient can rub these seeds when they feel a re-emergence of their symptoms.
Auricular Acupuncture has been used for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and is helpful in bringing relief to a range of conditions.
General TCM Theory
General TCM Theory
Yin-yang theory
Five phases theory - wood, fire, earth, metal, and water
Theory of 6 Qi / 6 climatic factors - wind, cold, fire/heat, dampness, dryness and summer-heat
Theory of the vital substances - life force (qi), blood (xue), body fluids(jin ye), essence (jing)
Zang fu organ theory
Meridian (Jing-luo) theory
6 stages / 6 levels / 6 channel theory by Zhang ZhongJing (150—219)
4 levels theory by Ye TianShi (1667–1747): a flow chart of how certain illness progress, Defensive Qi (Wei)→ Qi → Nutritive Qi (Ying)→ Blood(Xue)
Triple burner (San Jiao) patterns by Wu JuTong (1758–1836)
Causes of Illness
Causes of Illness
External Causes
6 excesses / 6 climatic evils: Under normal conditions the 6 climatic factors are natural manifestations of the different seasons and nature’s constantly varying climate, they do not cause disease, however when the body’s immune system is low, these climatic changes become pathological for the human health, and are then referred to as "the six evils”.
Pestilential Qi
Internal Causes
Emotions cause illness when they are not balanced. The 7 emotions are anger, joy, sadness, grief, pensiveness, fear, fright.
Miscellaneous Causes
Constitutional factors, improper diet, exercise and rest, fatigue, sexual intemperance, traumatic injuries, insect bites, animal bites, phlegm and parasites.
Diagnostics
Diagnostics
A Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) or acupuncture assessment consists of 4 methods: observation, sensation (including smelling, hearing, and palpation), asking questions, and taking the radial pulse.
Examination of the tongue and the pulse are among the principal diagnostic methods in TCM.
After the patient is assessed and information is collected, TCM practitioner uses the 8 principles to formulate a TCM diagnosis.
The Eight Principles:
Yin or Yang
Exterior or Interior
Excess or Deficient
Hot or Cold
中文
中文
Pine Rivers TCM 提供中药、针灸、拔罐和艾灸等等治疗。根据阴阳五行理论、五运六气学说、七情学说、脏腑辨证、气血津液辩证、经络辨证，六经辨证、卫气营血辨证和三焦辨证等等理论，中医师采用八纲辨证，通过望、闻、问、切四诊搜集患者症状及体征等资料，进行诊断和治疗。
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