Traditional Five Element Acupuncture
in Fife, Scotland at Cupar and St Andrews
in Fife, Scotland at Cupar and St Andrews
Did you know that acupuncture may help improve how you feel within yourself as well as with physical complaints?
Welcome to the website for Roberta Weber, LicAc, MBAcC. I’ve written this site to give information about Traditional Five-Element Acupuncture, which is what I practice in the Tayside area of Scotland. I am a licenced acupuncturist (Lic.Ac.) and member of the British Acupuncture Council (MBAcC) with more than four years of post-graduate experience doing acupuncture on hundreds of people from children to octogenarians.
Further Training: I am participating in the Tending Shen Five Element Acupuncture Graduate Program run by Niki Bilton, Dean of the Ongiara College of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Ontario. This two year programme is designed for practitioners who wish to significantly deepen their understanding and application of the theory and practice of the breadth of Five Element Acupuncture. The programme will strengthen my already strong knowledge base in this fantastic form of medicine.
I have also recently been accepted as a registered healthcare provider for Aviva healthcare insurance. Please contact me for more information.
What is Five Element Acupuncture?
The roots of Five Element (5E) acupuncture are from more than 2000 years ago in Ancient China, when humans lived closely with Nature and were carefully observant of the rhythms of the natural world and how it impacted upon them both within and outside themselves. Natural laws were developed through this observation and this then developed into a system of medicine that has passed down from Master to pupil throughout the ages.
I do not use acupuncture to treat a person's nausea (for example). I use acupuncture to treat the person who has the nausea. By extension, I could have five patients who come to me with the diagnosis of nausea and each one would be treated totally differently because each is a different person. The disease label a person is given is largely unimportant to the traditional acupuncturist in terms of who they treat (within safe practice guidelines) and how the treatment progresses.
Five Element acupuncture is a form of traditional acupuncture and is holistic in its practice. Being holistic means that it does not seek to dissect our physical difficulties from our emotional or 'spiritual' stresses. Diagnosing the root cause of an imbalance within a person (from a Chinese Medicine perspective) underpins every traditional Five Element acupuncture treatment. Each of us has a root cause of imbalance and are affected by this to varying degrees at various times in our lives.
Please see the “About Traditional Acupuncture” page for more information regarding traditional acupuncture.
About Myself
About me and the clinics I work from:I am a licenced acupuncturist (Lic.Ac.) trained in a traditional acupuncture style known as Five Element Acupuncture from the School of Five Element Acupuncture. I completed my three year licentiate training in June, 2006. I am a member of the main regulating body for Acupuncturists in the UK - the British Acupuncture Council (MBAcC). I also have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology with an emphasis in Genetics obtained from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992.
Clinic Location
Treatment is available from two clinics in Fife, Scotland:These clinics are within easy reach of Dundee and the surrounding Fife and Angus areas; Broughty Ferry, Monifieth, Invergowrie, Perth, Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy, Leven and Edinburgh. Appointments are available in the morning, daytime and evening but please see the Contact Details and Clinic Locations page for more info.