Gleamy Acupuncture Centre is the specialist of acupuncture therapy and Chinese herbal remedy healthcare. We are not only aiming to relieve presenting manifestation of disease, but also to resolve the underlying cause of disharmony, and eventually enable a natural return to your health.
We are the practitioner of an ancient treatment for your natural health in the modern world.
Gleamy Acupuncture Centre is ACC registered treatment provider and a member of the NZRA (The New Zealand Register of Acupuncturists). We can help you recover from personal injury, which means any of physical injury and mental injury suffered due to physical injury.
We offer you Free surcharge for ACC treatment.
Gleamy Acupuncture Centre uses 100% natural way and complies with the safety guidelines issued by the NZRA and the Ministry of Health.
Your safety is always in our mind, so we only use fine, sterilised, disposable painless acupuncture needles at Gleamy Acupuncture Centre.
We are here to listen to you and understand your health needs and goals. We bring to you a peaceful, comfortable and safe environment where you can cure from injuries, manage pain, relieve stress, strengthen immunity, seek adjunctive care for diseases being treated with other medicines and prevent illness from occurring.
Your Practitioner
Glen Zou is a fully qualified practitioner, ACC registered treatment provider and member of NZRA. He was awarded Bachelor degree of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in 1989 after five-year studies in the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Fujian, China, majoring in Acupuncture. He also attained National Diploma of Acupuncture at New Zealand College of Chinese Medicine in New Zealand. He has had over 20-year experience practicing as professional acupuncturist and Chinese medical doctor both in China and in New Zealand, treated more than 10,000 patients.
Glen combines Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Moxibustion, Cupping and Tuina (Chinese Massage Therapy) and other techniques to treat a wide variety of disorders. Each treatment that you receive from Glen will be unique and tailored to effectively treat the core of your health problems and therefore, to restore balance and well-being.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is one of the therapeutic methods in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) with a history of several thousand years. It is an ancient treatment developed under the guidance of TCM theory. The idea of “qi” (pronounced “chee”), or vital energy, circulates the body through the pairs of channels, meridians and acupoints, just likens water flowing in the river, to communicate with all tissues and organs and carry nourishment for the entire body. And the balanced flow of qi is the vital life force for the whole system within the body to maintain healthy, any blockages, deficiencies or excesses will breach the balance and result in disease and pain. And consequently the aim of acupuncture is to stimulate selected acupoints along the channels with certain manipulating methods of acupuncture needles to remove any imbalances or obstructions within the body, and eventually to encourage the qi to flow smoothly for the prevention of disease and restore health.
Types of Treatment
Acupuncture treatment includes acupunctue needling, moxibustion, cupping, massage, electro-acupuncture, ear acupuncture and acupressure. Although other methods, such as infrared heating, Gua sha, laser acupuncture etc, are also used in acupuncture treatment, but these are the mainly used acupuncture therapeutic methods. All acupuncture therapeutic methods can be applied separately or combined together within each treatment, depending on the condition being treated.
What can be treated?
Acupuncture is best known for its high effectiveness in managing pain, from speeding the healing time of injuries to reducing pain and increasing mobility for people with chronic pain conditions such as arthritis. It can be used to treat many of the medical problems that you consult your doctor for, from menstrual irregularities to depression to stroke rehabilitation.
What happens during the treatment?
Relatively, the insertion of acupuncture needles is a painless procedure, but occasionally, you may experience a small pin prick. At Gleamy Acupuncture Centre, we use very fine, disposable, single-use needles of between 0.23mm and 0.45mm in diameter, and the appropriate angle and depth inserted are selected according to the location of the acupoints which are especially important in the process of needle insertion. Correct angle and depth are helpful in producing desired therapeutic effects and preventing needling accidents.
Once the needles are in the selected acupoints along particular meridians, the acupuncturist will then apply appropriate needle manipulations to stimulate qi and induce the arrival of qi (called “De qi”), which refers to the sensation of tingling, electric-like weak shock, numbness, heaviness, distension around the acupoints or travelling up and down the affected meridians, at the same time the acupuncturist may feel heaviness and tension beneath the needle.
The arrival of qi is directly related to the therapeutic effect. In general, obvious and quick arrival of qi suggests good therapeutic effects, while unclear and slow arrival of qi shows poor therapeutic effects.
After the qi sensation is felt, the acupuncturist will leave the patient lying on a comfortable and natural posture which is for prolonged retention of the needle and prevention of bending and breaking the needle as well as fainting during acupuncture.
Commonly, each treatment session lasts between 20minutes and 60minutes, and the number of needles used will depend on the condition being treated and its severity, likewise determine the total number of treatment sessions required.
Moxibustion, electro-acupuncture, cupping and other therapeutic methods may apply to the needles after insertion to further stimulate the acupoints for better effects.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been used date back 4000-5000 years. There is a vast repertoire of herbal medicine textbooks that have been revised and supplemented over the centuries. In addition, since the 1950’s there has been much modern biomedicine research done with the efficacy of using Chinese herbal medicines. Research has isolated the active ingredients of medicines to help the modern Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner prescribe formulas more effectively. At Gleamy Acupuncture Centre, our Chinese herbalist diagnoses according to traditional methods (including inspection, listening and olfaction,inqury,and pulse-taking and palpation) and tailor makes a prescription to suit your needs individually.
A Chinese herbal prescription can be comprised of many different herbs. Usually a combination of 10-20 dried herbs is boiled in a decoction and drunk twice a day. Some herbs are prepared as freeze dried granules and many formulations are also available as pills or tablets.
At Gleamy Acupuncture Centre, we comply with world guidelines and do not use any endangered species. All herbal products imported in to New Zealand are checked by MAF and customs. However, some of Chinese medicines are of animal origin such as oyster shell and minerals such as hematite are sometimes used as well.
Chinese herbal medicine can be used seperately for treatments from acupuncture or is used together with acupuncture treatment to supplement acupuncture therapy.
Service Categories
Acupuncture, Chinese Massage, Cupping, Herbalists, Mens Health, Natural Fertility Management, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Weight Loss, Womens Health
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