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Women's Health & Fertility Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture care in Richmond

We take a history wide enough to be useful: cycle, sleep, digestion, energy, temperature, mood, and what your body was doing a decade before any of this became a gynaecological or fertility problem. It is rarely local. It usually sits at the end of something long.
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Then the part most people say they've never had. We tell you what we think is going on, twice — once in the Chinese medicine framework we work in, and once in physiological terms, so that it connects to the results and diagnoses you already have rather than sitting in a separate category in your head.

You leave with a treatment plan built from that assessment and a review date.

A course usually runs two to three menstrual cycles — long enough for a pattern to show, short enough that nothing here is open-ended.

Acupuncture once or twice a week, more often around ovulation or a transfer.

Herbs, if prescribed, twice daily — dispensed as granules you stir into hot water, so there's no simmering and nothing to explain at work. The prescription changes as your cycle moves.

Along the way we book shorter review consultations to see what's shifting and adjust while it still matters. We'd rather find out in week four than week twelve.

Not "how are you feeling?" — a comparison against what we wrote down on day one.

‍If things have improved, the next question is whether you still need us. We start reducing treatment — spacing appointments out, stepping herbs down — and we watch what your body does without the support. If it holds on its own, we stop. That's the outcome we're aiming at, and it's not a version of care you get to by seeing someone indefinitely.

‍If things have improved but not enough, some cases need a second course. Complex, long-standing problems often do. We'll tell you that plainly, with a reason and a new review date — not an open-ended invitation to keep coming.