Deep Khatkar Lic.Ac
Traditional Acupuncture

Name: Five Elements Brighton
Address: 20-22 Gloucester Place, Brighton and Hove, BN1 4AA, GB
Telephone: 07949765523

Who I Am and What I Do

I am a classically trained, fully insured and licensed (Lic.Ac) acupuncturist, and full member of the Association of Acupuncture Clinicians (AAC) and the British Acupuncture Federation (BAF).

My practice mainly involves a Classical Five Elements Style, which is many thousands of years old and aims to treat at the deepest level of constitutional healing.

I am also trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Gua Sha, Cupping, Tuina and Moxibustion, and incorporate these into my practice where appropriate.

I believe that we all have the innate ability to be able to heal ourselves and I am grateful for the opportunity to support people on this journey towards optimal holistic health.

"The upper class of medicines...govern the nourishment of destiny and correspond to heaven"

-Shen Nong Ben Cao (206 AD-230 AD)

Testimonials

Rebecca...

"Firstly, never have I met such a healer. Deep is intuitive, nurturing kind and caring. Through his accupuncture he has started to bring me back to life. I first went to Deep when I was suffering from severe anxiety and panic attacks and in a short time he has not only managed to shift my anxiety, where I have days where I don't feel anxious anymore, I'm starting to feel like the person I once was many many years ago before the decline of my mental health. We are still on a healing journey but what amazing progress has been achieved so far. I am eternally grateful and I cannot recommend Deep enough. It has been life changing."

What can Acupuncture help with?

Most people who I treat report a general improvement in their overall wellbeing, feeling more like themselves and with alleviated symptoms. My approach to is treat the whole person at the root of their constitution, which is more often than not out of balance from emotional disharmony. Acupuncture, as a holistic treatment, focusses on harmony in all areas of Body, Mind and Spirit, and so a precise list of symptoms that it can help with is not only a difficult area to research but also reduces the medicine to Western Medical constructs.

In 1997, the WHO along with several National Institutes of Health, published a Consensus Statement on acupuncture. Their published results have been listed here, and gives an idea on acupuncture efficacy based on available research at the time.

The World Health Organisation recommended acupuncture for these diseases, symptoms or conditions, because acupuncture had been proved, through controlled trials, to be an effective treatment:

Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which The World Health Organisation recommended acupuncture because its therapeutic effect has been shown, although further proof was needed:

Low back pain
Neck pain
Tennis elbow
Knee pain
Peri-arthritis of the shoulder
Sprains
Facial pain
TMJ
Headache
Dental pain
Rheumatoid arthritis
Induction of labor
Breech birth presentation
Morning sickness
Postoperative pain
Stroke
Essential hypertension
Primary hypotension
Renal colic
Leucopenia
Radiation/chemo reactions
Allergic Rhinitis
Hay fever
Biliary colic
Depression
Acute bacillary dysentery
Primary dysmenorrhea
Acute epigastralgia
Peptic ulcer

Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)
Acne vulgaris
Alcohol dependence and detoxification
Bell’s palsy
Bronchial asthma
Cancer pain
Cardiac neurosis
Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation
Cholelithiasis
Competition stress syndrome
Craniocerebral injury, closed
Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent
Earache
Epidemic haemorrhagic fever
Epistaxis, simple (without generalised or local disease)
Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection
Female infertility
Facial spasm
Female urethral syndrome
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Gastrokinetic disturbance
Gouty arthritis
Hepatitis B virus carrier status
Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpes virus 3)
Hyperlipaemia

Hypo-ovarianism
Insomnia
Labour pain
Lactation, deficiency
Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
Ménière disease
Neuralgia, post-herpetic
Neurodermatitis
Obesity
Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
Osteoarthritis
Pain due to endoscopic examination
Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans
Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein–Leventhal syndrome)
Postextubation in children
Postoperative convalescence
Premenstrual syndrome
Prostatitis, chronic
Pruritus
Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome
Raynaud syndrome, primary
Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Retention of urine, traumatic
Schizophrenia
Sialism, drug-induced
Sjögren syndrome
Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
Spine pain, acute
Stiff neck
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
Tietze syndrome
Tobacco dependence
Tourette syndrome
Ulcerative colitis, chronic
Urolithiasis
Vascular dementia
Whooping cough (pertussis)

Cost

I recommend starting with a block of five weekly sessions. This gives us and the medicine a reasonable opportunity before assessment. During this time, we can discuss ongoing treatment spacing.

My aim is to empower people with their own health. The pricing structure is intended to provide affordable ongoing holistic treatment, for those who would like to use acupuncture to maintain their health and wellbeing. To achieve the best results, it is important to plan for more frequent treatments at the outset, as the gains accumulate in these early stages. An ongoing treatment plan will then be recommended.

Most people choose to come for treatment every 4-6 weeks for 'maintenance', because life happens and has a habit of upsetting our balance, hindering our own ability to maintain optimal health (dis-ease). These regular maintenance sessions are discounted.

For those people who require more regular treatment, the price is discounted further, in order to give them the support they need, whilst still in chronic situations; emotional or physical.

Five Session Block (Recommended)

Ongoing Maintenance (every 4-6 weeks)

Ongoing Treatment (less than monthly)

Ad hoc

£225

- 1 Diagnostic and Treatment session (2 hrs)

- 4 weekly treatments (1 hr)

(Saving: £70)

£48

Most people choose to carry on with regular maintenance to stay in the best possible health (1 hr).

(Saving: £7)

£40

For those who require more regular treatment (1 hr).

(Saving: £15)

Further concessions are available on request for anyone who requires more regular, weekly treatment.

£55

Price for those who prefer not to come for treatment every 4-6 weeks, and prefer seasonal or ad hoc treatment, as and when they feel the need (1 hr).

For new patients, who haven't attended a diagnostic session as part of a Five Session Block, then a 2 hour session will need to be booked first. Cost: £75.

Clinic Locations

About Balance

20-22 Gloucester place, Brighton BN1 4AA

Googlemaps

Hummingbird Clinic

207 Ditchling Road, Brighton BN1 6JB.