Dr Shelley L Beer -Physician Of Chinese Medicine
Board in Hepburn

When experience matters- in continuous clinical practice since 1989 if you are looking for experience, then 21 years in clinical practice, including concurrent teaching chinese medicine at victoria university for 16 of those while also serving on the chinese medicine registration board from 2000-2009, indicates a deep commitment to this ancient medical system. Following a thorough assessment, lifestyle education to assist preventative choices, chinese dietary recommendations, chinese medicine, a treatment plan will be formulated using options chosen from the many different branches of traditional chinese medicine- in particular she used acupuncture, exploring body-mind relationship. Rather than suppressing symptoms, she aims to identify the underlying cause, so that long term change can be sustainable with less reliance on intense treatment. Shelley approaches her practise by considering the health and well-being of the whole person. Her orthodox training involved a bachelor's degree from monash university in botany, a graduate diploma in women's health and ph D from the university of melbourne. Shelley came from a background rich in life experiences, before choosing to specialise in traditional chinese medicine. More recently shelley has mentored a number of successful registration applicants and higher education students. There is a full working chinese herbal dispensary on site, supplied by the well-being providores (de vos & beer) . They additionally supply selected grocery lines consistent with chinese medicine diagnoses and other unique items less easily obtained- they source good quality coffee from award winning killara coffee, a- grade pistachios from kyalite ,truly free range eggs from "the glen's happy hens " and now you can get hari-har chai varieties, including pre-made organic soy chai since supermarkets have stopped stocking it. For more detail about the grocery service available and about shelley at daylesford health professionals, see http://dhphealth.info/practitioners.html. Or http://tcmconsultancy.com.

Shelley has expertise in treating women’s health, a keen interest in treating babies children and is able to treat intricate clinical conditions by offering supportive therapy through individual treatments. In addition to private consultations, Shelley now offers reduced cost acupuncture through Community unfold group sessions, three times each week. For example, the symptoms of how you feel about becoming ill can be impartial as urgent as the illness itself. If you’ve had a problem a lengthy time, then it will take time to change that. Choose to make the time to come regularly for greater effect. Maximum conditions respond more effectively to a combination of both herbs and acupuncture, with a greater net effect. How is Shelley Beer improving Chinese medicine for her clients? How is Shelley Beer improving the Chinese medicine experience in a consultation? Shelley approaches her practice by considering the health and well being of the whole person. Talking is one way to retain the energy flowing. If you don’t like the sensation, Shelley uses finer needles with minimal reaction at the connection point. Conventional Chinese Medicine (LCM) is so diverse from Western Medicine, that in order to use the possible benefits that it has to offer women at the time of the menopause, we must understand how its differences effect approaches to treatment. So if a problem has taken a long time to manifest, it will take a bit of time to respond to treatment. Because Chinese Medicine treats the entire person, not honest one symptom of a person, treatment is based on determining the total health pattern of each woman. Periods are not reintroduced with herbal medicine treatment of menopausal symptoms. Prevention is eternal preferable a course of Acupuncture and or herbal medicine to strengthen the body’s aptitude to look after itself, before Spring arrives, may be appropriate. If you don’t know, then a consultation for diagnosis is suggested. Stillness and health naturally follows. Sometimes first time treatments can make the client feel so relaxed that they report a spaced out feeling. The only side effect from using the Balance Method of acupuncture, is that the pain relief does not last. The acupuncture needle stimulates a point on the surface of the body to communicate with the interior of the body. Because Shelley Beer has had over 26 years experience she can quickly devise traditional Chinese treatments based on the presenting complaint. The time it takes to prepare them is notable time in my routine. They are herbs that are worn according to the system of Customary Chinese Medicine.