Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine for Hornsby
Josephine is a registered acupuncturist & Chinese herbal medicine practitioner based in Lane Cove and Frenchs Forest. If you're willing and able to travel from Hornsby to either of these locations for TCM consultation, acupuncture and herbal medicine services, Josephine looks forward to meeting with you.
Yang Deficiency represents a fundamental depletion of the body's warming, activating, and transformative energy. Where Yin is the substance, Yang is the function — and when Yang is deficient, the body's processes slow and cool. Symptoms include persistent cold extremities, fatigue worse in the morning, pale complexion, loose stools with undigested food, frequent pale urination, low libido, and a preference for warmth. The primary treatment involves moxibustion combined with acupuncture on GV4 (Mingmen, "Gate of Vitality"), CV4 (Guanyuan), CV8 (Shenque, the navel), BL23 (Shenshu), and ST36 (Zusanli).
Yang Deficiency most commonly affects the Kidney and Spleen systems. Kidney Yang Deficiency — the root pattern — causes cold lower back, weak knees, early morning diarrhoea, and oedema. Spleen Yang Deficiency leads to poor appetite, abdominal cold pain, bloating, and watery stools. Heart Yang Deficiency produces chest cold, palpitations, and a feeling of heaviness. Moxibustion is essential in Yang Deficiency treatment — needling alone provides insufficient warmth to restore Yang function.
Those who consistently feel cold, fatigued, and sluggish, particularly in winter, may be experiencing Yang Deficiency. Treatment emphasises warming therapies, with dietary support from ginger, cinnamon, lamb, and other warming foods.
Moxibustion generates deep, penetrating warmth by burning dried mugwort herb near acupuncture points. This warmth directly supplements Yang Qi in a way that acupuncture needles alone cannot. For Yang Deficiency, moxibustion on points like GV4 and CV4 is often more effective than needling, as the condition fundamentally requires the addition of warmth and energy.
Yes, this is called "Yin and Yang Dual Deficiency" and is common in elderly patients, chronic illness, and advanced depletion states. Yin and Yang are interdependent — prolonged deficiency of one eventually damages the other. Treatment must carefully nourish both without overly warming (which would further damage Yin) or overly cooling (which would further damage Yang).
Josephine Zhuo (TCM) is an AHPRA registered health practitioner — acupuncturist and herbalist.
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