East West Clinic is the acupuncture and Chinese medicine clinic of Jamie Hamilton in Lower Bourne, Farnham.
With over 20 years' clinical experience, Jamie offers calm, thoughtful treatment for people looking for clear support with fertility, stress and anxiety, pain and recovery, and wider health and wellbeing.
Treatment begins with a detailed first appointment, where your symptoms, health history, pulse diagnosis and treatment options are considered together. From there, care can continue through flexible follow-up treatment or one of four structured pathways.
• Over 20 years' experience
• Degree-qualified acupuncturist
• Chinese herbal medicine where appropriate
• Calm private treatment room with easy parking
At East West Clinic, treatment is organised around four main pathways. These are not rigid packages or discounted programmes. They are a clear way to understand what kind of care may be most appropriate, how treatment is likely to begin, and how progress can be reviewed.
Most patients begin with a first appointment and then four weekly treatments as a foundation. This gives enough time to understand your pattern, begin treatment properly, assess your response, and decide the best rhythm from there.
For anyone trying to conceive naturally or preparing for IVF or IUI.
This pathway focuses on cycle regulation, reproductive health, timing, stress, and the wider conditions that may affect fertility.
Typical direction: usually considered over around 12 weeks or multiple cycles.
For stress, anxiety, sleep disturbance, emotional strain, or a sense of nervous system overload.
This pathway focuses on steadier regulation over time, including sleep, tension, resilience, digestion, and the body's ability to settle.
Typical direction: usually considered over around 12 weeks, with treatment rhythm adjusted according to response.
For musculoskeletal pain, chronic tension, headaches, recurring injury patterns, or recovery after strain.
This pathway focuses first on reducing pain and reactivity, then restoring movement and function, and finally stabilising recovery.
Typical direction: often begins with a 6-week treatment phase, then reviewed.
For fatigue, digestion, low energy, poor sleep, general imbalance, or simply not feeling quite right.
This pathway focuses on restoring a better baseline of health, improving regulation, and supporting longer-term resilience.
Typical direction: often begins with a 6-week treatment phase, then reviewed.
The first appointment is the starting point for treatment at East West Clinic.
It includes time to talk through your main concern, relevant health history, current symptoms, and what you would like help with. Jamie will also use traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis, including pulse assessment and channel examination, to build a clearer picture of your pattern.
You will usually receive acupuncture treatment during the first appointment. Herbal medicine may also be discussed where it is clinically appropriate.
At the end of the appointment, Jamie will explain what kind of treatment rhythm may be useful. Most patients begin with four weekly treatments as a foundation, then review from there.
First appointment: 60 minutes, £90
Jamie Hamilton has been practising Chinese medicine since 2003 and acupuncture in Farnham for over 20 years.
He is a degree-qualified acupuncturist, Chinese herbal medicine practitioner, teacher of Chinese medicine, published author, and specialist in pulse diagnosis. Treatment is calm, individual, and based on understanding the whole pattern of a person's health rather than focusing only on isolated symptoms.
East West Clinic is based in Lower Bourne, Farnham, with a private treatment room and easy parking. The clinic is within reach of Farnham, Haslemere, Guildford, Surrey and nearby Hampshire.
For more about Jamie and his Chinese Medicine approach see: About
Chinese medicine looks for patterns in how the body is functioning. Symptoms are considered alongside sleep, digestion, energy, stress, emotional state, pain, cycle health, and other signs that help build a fuller picture.
This broader view is one of the strengths of acupuncture. It allows treatment to be tailored to the individual, rather than treating everyone with the same symptom in the same way.
Where appropriate, Chinese herbal medicine may be used alongside acupuncture as an additional clinical option.
"Jamie has been treating me for years whenever I feel the need for an acupuncture appointment. He has a wonderfully empathetic manner, and I always feel in very capable hands. It’s a testament to his skill that I keep returning year after year. His ability to transform how I feel, leaving a lasting positive impact, is truly remarkable." SW of Farnham
"My Chinese Medicine experience with Jamie has been superb! I loved the integrated approach of mind-body and emotions that I had heard so much of and can now see how well it all comes together. I came seeking help with my really stuck sleeping problems and have now really improved." WT of Lower Bourne
"Jamie has helped me with different problems over the years. He is skilful and compassionate and listens carefully to the problem at hand. He asks insightful questions and is very knowledgeable about how the body metabolises stress. I always find I sleep incredibly well after a treatment!" CB of Farnham
“4 sessions of acupuncture and your magic heat lamp have totally sorted my back and knees. Thank you! I'll be back for maintenance sessions." IF of Farnham
People come to East West Clinic with many different symptoms, diagnoses and health concerns. Chinese medicine considers each concern within the broader pattern of a person’s health, including sleep, digestion, energy, stress, emotional wellbeing and lifestyle.
Explore some of the conditions commonly discussed in the clinic and learn which treatment pathway may be most appropriate.
I will first take a detailed medical history to better understand the condition that you are coming with, this is an important step, and expect to answer a variety of questions about both your physical and sometimes emotional condition where relevent.
In the clinic you then rest on a comfortable treatment couch in a super peaceful treatment room, and then ultra fine needles are inserted into specific points on the body.
Sometimes I may also use a smouldering herb called ‘moxa’ to warm these points, and cupping therapy to ease muscular pain. A very usual aspect of treatment I add now is the use of a heat lamp and a special salve (made right here in the clinic). This is used to ease muscle and joint pain and is really effective!
The benefits of acupuncture therapy can be grouped into three broad categories of action:
Relaxing Tension, Boosting Vitality and Calming Anxiety
These three actions are a catchphrase of treatment, and actually underpin some of the key theories and mechanisms of the method.
Relaxing Tension is all about stress, and our response to stress. We find a new, very relaxed mode of life.
Boosting Vitality is about combating tiredness, and increasing our inner spark of vitality.
Calming Anxiety is about finding a calm core of our being that can't be shaken by life's ups and downs.
Each of these actions correspond to a set of specific channels and points in the acupuncture system. When we rebalance the body by focussing on one aspect, we actually enhance all three, as these actions are mutually interlinked.These states actually underpin our health, allowing our system to work optimally, increase bloodflow, enhance metabolism, boost the immune system, provide good sleep and maintains our fertility.
The meaning of the english word "acupuncture" is interesting. Acu means "sharp" and is also found in such words as accurate. "-puncture" is just like it sounds! In chinese the words used for it is "zhen-jiu" 针灸 which means needling (with an acupuncture needle) and moxabustion. That last word refers to heat treatment, often by using a glowing herbal stick we call a "moxa stick". By the way, it is not spelled "accupuncture", although this often shows up on search results!
Acupuncture is an extremely safe technique, with very high standards of hygiene and training. Degree level training and continuing professional development ensure a professional approach. I am a member of the British Acupuncture Council which insists on a code of safe practice, ensuring that levels of hygeine and safety in treatment are extremely high.
In essence there are no negative side effects to treatment. Very few adverse effects of treatment have ever been recorded, and these few were traced to unregistered practitioners. On the contrary, the after effect of acupuncture is overwhelmingly positive, with incresed relaxation and sense of wellbeing.
How acupuncture works is a really good question! Because acupuncture is a traditional treatment form in China for literally thousands of years, it something of a fact of life that acupuncture gives effective treatments, and ordinary people are not very questioning of "how" and "why" it works. Here in the west, we use the scientific tradition to know and make progress, so to answer this we can approach it from this tradition.
In scientific terms acupuncture is thought to profoundly stimulate nervous system, the cerebellum, endocrine system and immune system. Functional MRI scans show actual changes in the cerebellum (part of the brain) during acupuncture needling that relate to increased parasymathetic sysem function and release of dopamine. These changes are then thought to actually mediate direct changes in physiology.
It is quite well known that pressing certain points / places has an benficial effect on the body. Acupuncture uses these same places, and with placing a needle to a depth of half an inch or so it can make a very specific change. In fact the traditional Chines terms for these places are actually called "holes" or xué 穴
Knowledge of acupuncture points is well known in the technique of acupressure and uses the same places as acupuncture but with strong pressure applied. This can be very useful for clients to use for themselves and I show some self-care acupressure points here on the wellbeing page of this site.
Another excellent question. The short answer is "Yes acupuncture works!".
For most conditions that people come to treatment for, they experience a decrease in symptoms.The long answer is that it is actually not so easy to answer this question with 100% certainty. In common with other "complex medical interventions" like physiotherapy, psychotherapy, occupational therapy, surgery and nursing, it is very hard to tell with complete accuracy how well the therapy does. This is because the actual nature of the intervention is completely individualised for each and every client. We do not generally follow standard protocols, and no two treatments will be exactly alike. This means that following more stringent scientific testing is never going to be possible for acupuncture. That being said, there is increasing evidence for the efficacy of treatment for acupuncture. This is reported widely across scientific papers. I use the Journal of Chinese Medicine as my main source of scientific information showing the ways that acupuncture works. for many conditions, there is quite reasonable levels of evidence for treatment, and I often use this information to plan my treatments and communicate with my patients regarding treatment outcomes.
I am passionate about addressing patient's main complaints well, using evidence based acupuncture appropriately and persuing the latest professional training or CPD. These two factors of Evidence based acupuncture and ongoing CPD form the gold standard of acupuncture care.