After seeing the recent devastating events at Grenfell Tower, some of my colleagues decided to volunteer to support the local community with acupuncture. They set up a temporary street clinic under a nearby overpass and treated everyone - survivors, residents, police, members of the Red Cross, NHS staff, counsellors and local volunteers. They offered a place to sit and talk, giving people a chance to express their grief and shock at what had happened. They then used 'emergency acupuncture' to treat the PTSD that many had suffered, this often took the form of ear seed's or ear acupuncture and is a really simple but effective was to treat shock, grief and trauma. To read the whole story click here.
