Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine for Willoughby
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 Willoughby to either of these locations for TCM consultation, acupuncture and herbal medicine services, Josephine looks forward to meeting with you.
Jet lag disrupts the circadian rhythm after crossing multiple time zones, causing fatigue, insomnia, digestive upset, difficulty concentrating, and general malaise. In TCM, jet lag represents a disruption of the body's Qi circulation — which follows a precise 24-hour cycle through the organ meridians (the Chinese body clock). When this internal clock is misaligned with the external environment, organs function at inappropriate times, causing the characteristic symptoms.
Treatment resets the internal clock by stimulating points on the organ meridians that correspond to the desired time zone. The master points for circadian regulation include PC6 (Neiguan) and SP4 (Gongsun) to open the Chong Mai and regulate the core rhythm. GV20 (Baihui) reorients the Yang Qi cycle. HT7 (Shenmen) addresses insomnia at destination. ST36 (Zusanli) corrects digestive timing, and SP6 (Sanyinjiao) regulates the hormonal rhythm.
The Chinese organ clock cycles Qi through each organ for two hours: Lung (3-5AM), Large Intestine (5-7AM), Stomach (7-9AM), and so on. Treatment timed to the destination's schedule helps reset this cycle. A single session upon arrival, followed by one or two more over the next few days, typically resolves jet lag faster than natural adjustment alone.
Many travellers notice significant improvement after a single session upon arrival, with one to two follow-up sessions in the following days. Acupuncture resets the body's internal Qi clock to align with the new time zone faster than natural adjustment, which typically takes one day per time zone crossed.
The Chinese body clock describes Qi cycling through each organ meridian for two hours in a 24-hour cycle: Lung (3-5AM), Large Intestine (5-7AM), Stomach (7-9AM), etc. Jet lag disrupts this cycle. Acupuncture resets it by stimulating the appropriate meridian points at the correct times for the new time zone.
Josephine Zhuo (TCM) is an AHPRA registered health practitioner — acupuncturist and herbalist.
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