Jonathan Clogstoun-Willmott

Your health is my concern and I'm very interested in whatever has made you visit me. I try to understand your problem using my knowledge and experience (over 48 years since I began seeing patients) and then suggest ways I may help.

I began studying in 1975, practising soon after, under the watchful eye of Dr Mary Austin - a famous London practitioner. She generously let me practise on her patients and then helped me build up my own practice beside her. Eventually I went on to study in China and moved back to Scotland in 1982 where I've worked ever since.

In Edinburgh I built up a huge practice but now in my eighties I see patients on two days a week in East Lothian (in Ormiston, an old mining village now modernising fast).

Even so, I'm always glad to meet new people and grateful so many come as a result of a friend's recommendation.

Why do people come? There's a huge range of reasons and on my other site https://www.acupuncture-points.org/common-diseases-list.html I've listed some of them.

At the time of writing the most common reason for visiting me seems to be pain, specifically sciatica, but if I were writing this on another day it might be headaches, or infertility (Yes! lots of people come for that!), or tiredness (including post Covid or post-viral).

Or insomnia, or anxiety or breathlessness - just examples!

Then, given how Chinese medicine understands modern drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Victoza (GLP-1) for weight loss work, it's not surprising some people who've been taking them come for help. Rad more about this at https://www.acupuncture-points.org/a-faster-way-to-fat-loss.html

BSc Electrical Engineering at Edinburgh University; qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Edinburgh (though resigned my membership some years ago); then trained at the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (LicAc), the British College of Acupuncture (BAc), and the College of Chinese Medicine Nanjing in China (DipAc). I have also trained in and use other forms of acupuncture such as Japanese acupuncture: this and my understanding of unified acupuncture theory (yes, there is such a thing!) have vastly improved my results.

I studied homoeopathy at the College of Homeopathy (LCH, MCH) and the Dynamis School for Advanced Homoeopathic Studies (PCH).

I trained in Chinese Herbal medicine at the Northern College of Acupuncture, (DipCHM).

I qualified in Bowen at the European College of Bowen Studies (CertECBS).

I have also trained in and practised various other therapies including Remedial Massage, Reflexology, and Shiatsu... and continues to attend courses on a range of therapies and techniques.

Acupuncture and Homoeopathy are the two therapies most people see me for, but I frequently use Chinese herbal formulae too.

Lots of people have heard of acupuncture, but acupuncturists use many ways to treat the body and its acupuncture channels. These include not just acupuncture needles - very thin, flexible needles, (completely different to hypodermic needles used to inject substances into your bloodstream), cupping, moxibustion, guasha (a form of scraping massage). blood-letting and tuina ( A Chinese version of Shiatsu).

Together Chinese medicine can be a powerful way to get and keep you healthy. Many people come for specific problems (such as pain or insomnia) but then return periodically to keep well. Treatment is usually relaxing, and many people go to sleep during it.

I meet you, listen to you, ask questions, examine you, take copious notes, then talk about your problem. I've written a website for you, explaining how Chinese medicine understands your problem. Thousands of people visit it from all over the world every day. If your problem isn't yet on it, it will be eventually: www.acupuncture-points.org.

Treatment: the right amount to help you get better. Sometimes only a little is the right amount. Others need lots.