Traditional Chinese Medicine

Emma discovered facial acupressure quite by accident. During a particularly stressful week at work, she’d developed a tension headache that seemed to live permanently behind her left eyebrow. In desperation, she began pressing and massaging the area, hoping for some relief. Not only did the headache ease, but she noticed something unexpected – her skin

At fifty-five, Margaret looked in the mirror and barely recognised herself. It wasn’t just the lines around her eyes or the grey threading through her hair – those changes she’d expected and could accept. It was something deeper, a fundamental shift in how her face looked and felt that seemed to have happened almost overnight.

When Lucy’s eczema first appeared during her university finals, everyone attributed it to stress. The angry, itchy patches on her hands and inner elbows seemed like an understandable response to exam pressure and too much coffee. But twenty years later, despite a successful career and relatively stable life, the eczema remained a constant, unpredictable companion.

Sarah’s teenage acne had supposedly ended with her teens, yet here she was at thirty-two, staring at her reflection in the Boots skincare aisle, wondering how her chin had suddenly erupted like a volcanic landscape. The spots weren’t like the ones she’d battled as a teenager – these were deeper, angrier, and seemed to appear