Acupuncturist's patients a varied bunch
The health and wellbeing industry is increasingly at the forefront of people’s consciousness. Ashley Smyth will be speaking to industry providers of all modalities in the Waitaki district, in an effort to demystify some of the ways they help people to help themselves. Acupuncture appealed to a young Elise Blundell because it sounded ‘‘like magic’’. She first came across the ancient form of Chinese medicine when her aunty gave her a book on horse acupuncture as a child. ‘‘I thought, ‘that’s pretty cool’, ’cause I had a horse at the time, and I thought, ‘if I just stick...