Barefoot Clinics blog
Barefoot Clinics is a registered charity that establishes free acupuncture clinics in India and Nepal. In our blog for The Journal of Chinese Medicine, we introduce our work and outline some of the remarkable results we’ve achieved with patients. Our work is funded by voluntary donations and staffed entirely by volunteers.
For more information or to donate, please visit our website.
This month’s blog sets out Leilani Lea’s unique hypertension acupuncture treatment protocol as taught to the Barefoot Clinics' students in Nepal and India and offers practicing acupuncturists the chance to join efforts with Barefoot Clinics in trialling the treatment.
The concept of a healthcare system that creates locally-provided "barefoot doctors" who offer first-line healthcare is a brilliantly simple solution to providing much-needed healthcare in impoverished and outlying rural areas in...
One of our great joys in the clinics is making a difference for paralysis patients. We do a lot of work in this field and would like to share a few cases with you here.
It does not happen often that acupuncture will effect an...
Pterygium is a thickening and overgrowth of the conjunctiva, the layer lining the sclera or the white of the eye. It is generally accompanied by redness, soreness and irritation of the eye - conjunctivitis. There is frequently some yellowing of the pterygia...
Leilani Lea B.Ac, Lic.Ac, M.B.Ac.C, M.F.E.M.T.C., is the founder of the registered charity BAREFOOT CLINICS, whose philosophy is to teach and empower rural villagers to set up their own acupuncture practices, thus providing...
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