Welcome. I’m Rose Rowney and I’m looking forward to helping you move towards better health. I use the power and subtlety of Chinese medicine to remind your body what it feels like to function well. Read more about me →

 

In Chinese medicine, we use acupuncture to access your inner resources (your Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood) and put them to work restoring optimal function to your body.

Chinese herbal medicine is the art of combining herbs and minerals into a harmonious mix that is especially designed for the individual.

Moxabustion (moxa) is an ancient healing art with a long and rich history. Moxa is the practice of burning the fuzzy down on the underside of the mugwort leaf close to the skin.

Cups have been used through Chinese medicine history as a way of drawing environmental and pathogenic influences such as cold, heat, wind, static blood and damp from the body.

 
 
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Is your hay fever getting worse?
Is your hay fever getting worse?

It’s nearly summer, but for many of us hayfever is still going! In fact, many are suffering with hayfever symptoms well outside of the hayfever season, and for some, it never completely goes away, even in the cooler months. If this is you, then read on. I’m going to explain hayfever from a Chinese medicine perspective; what causes it, why it tends to worsen over the years and what you can do to turn the tide for yourself and head towards milder hayfever symptoms every season.

Vegetarian or Plant-Based Diet for Vitalty: 10 Tips
Vegetarian or Plant-Based Diet for Vitalty: 10 Tips

Eating a plant-based or vegetarian diet takes a little more care and thought than an omnivore’s diet. If you’re not eating meat, the key to getting all the nutrients you need lies in variety. In order to truly experience vital health, it’s important to branch out, experiment, and discover what each of our wonderful, unique bodies requires. So go forth and graze widely!

Baked Fennel with Black Olive Tapenade
Baked Fennel with Black Olive Tapenade

This recipe for baked fennel enhances all the beautiful sweetness of the fennel bulb by paring it with orange juice and roasting it slowly to encourage the natural sugars to develop.

Preparing For Birth With Acupuncture
Preparing For Birth With Acupuncture

Preparing for labour naturally is a process and involves all levels of your being. It involves time and space. It involves giving in to the mystery and wisdom of the body. Acupuncture can help facilitate this process and get your body in good shape for a successful and empowering natural labour.

Purple Cabbage Sauerkraut
Purple Cabbage Sauerkraut

It took my husband and I a long time to become sauerkraut converts. We just didn’t understand why anyone would enjoy eating something so stinky and sour. Then a friend of ours served it up with a Hungarian beef stew and we suddenly understood; it’s all about context.

Georgian-Style Fermented Green Tomatoes
Georgian-Style Fermented Green Tomatoes

This is fantastic alternative to green tomato chutney; it’s just as zingy and delicious, but contains no sugar, and offers all the nutritional and digestive benefits of a ferment.

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How To Make Pesto Like A Real Nonna

Here is the secret to making authentic pesto. Big thanks to author and chef Samin Nosrat, who shared her experience of making pesto with a Ligurian home cook in her fantastic series, Salt, Fat Acid, Heat. My version is adapted from Samin’s recipe.

Eggplant Rolls Stuffed With Walnuts
Eggplant Rolls Stuffed With Walnuts

Eggplants are at their absolute best in early autumn. The late summer sun gives these Mediterranean plants the kick they need to form fruit, which means they are still ripening right now as the autumn deepens. This is one of the ways we’ve been cooking them and I highly recommend trying it. These walnut-stuffed eggplant rolls are simple, yet absolutely delicious.

The Emotions of Autumn
The Emotions of Autumn

To me, autumn is a season of soft beauty and bitter-sweet nostalgia. I love the deep blue skies, gentle breezes, warm colours and the rusty-gate autumn call of the magpies. Autumn is a time of bounty in the veggie garden. It’s a time to celebrate the good things we find in our lives and to let anything that is holding us back fall away.

Gut Microbiome: What Chinese medicine has to offer
Gut Microbiome: What Chinese medicine has to offer

A healthy microbiome consists of millions of bacteria, some beneficial to humans and others less beneficial. We inherit our microbiome form our mother at birth. It has been with us since day one and has developed and changed with us throughout our life.