About Me
This community clinic is led by Amadis Cammell who has 36 continuous years of clinical experience in acupuncture in private practice and in the NHS. Amadis works with anyone who wants help, whatever their ailment or condition.
About Amadis
Amadis is a member of The British Acupuncture Council (M.B.Ac.C).
Amadis Cammell meets and works with all kinds of people to help them with all kinds of ailments and conditions.
He has been practicing Oriental Massage since 1983, Acupuncture since 1986, Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine since 1989, and Qigong since 1993. Learning these interrelated disciplines was standard practice in classical times as they all share the same source and precepts.
Amadis is a fully insured member of the British Acupuncture Council. This ensures he completed a degree-level training (Ba.Ac.), abides to rigorous ethical and clinical standards of practice, and maintains continuing professional development (CPD).
Amadis has twenty-five years’ experience teaching Internal Qigong, the precursor and foundation of Chinese Medicine. He includes the insights and knowledge gained from it and the study of Classical Chinese language, philosophy and spirituality so he can treat his patients holistically on all levels.
Amadis incorporates Humanistic and Body-Centred Psychotherapy understandings when treating psychosomatic and mental health conditions. Being a trained psychotherapist, enables him to listen and support clients in ways acupuncture trainings do not teach. It is no coincidence over half his clients come to address psychological as well as physical issues.
Most importantly, he brings his insights and skills gathered from experience working with people for 35 years; including Acupuncture, Oriental Massage, Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine, Qigong, psychotherapy and spiritual development.
NHS Experience
Amadis worked as an acupuncturist in the NHS for 25 years, possibly the longest of any non-doctor. In this time up to 20 patients a week were being referred by GPs to the five ‘NHS Primary Care Acupuncture Service’ concurrent-treatment clinics he set up and practiced in for the South-East London Health Authority 1991 to 2016.
The clinics underwent a two-year NHS pilot study plus three more NHS clinical audits to assess the effectiveness of acupuncture treatment on patients in GP surgeries. They all showed 75% or so of the patients Amadis treated reported with 6-8 sessions they had 'much improved’ giving an average score of 8 out of 10 for ‘benefit in their symptoms’.
This free acupuncture service was a victim of its effectiveness. Amadis was unofficially told that the results were so good that the NHS was obliged at some point to either universally provide acupuncture ‘free at the point of delivery’ or not all, so the service was closed down. He now brings all his experience and acquired skills in running community-oriented practices to this one.
Amadis' CV
The relevant trainings, CPD and professional experience for Amadis’ development as a holistic acupuncture practitioner are:
Trainings and study in Oriental Medicine and Qigong
1983-1987: Bachelor of Acupuncture - The International College of Oriental Medicine
1984 ongoing: Classical Chinese Medicine and Philosophy (CPD) – Elizabeth Rochat
1989-1991: Diploma in Traditional Chinese Medicine - London Academy Oriental Medicine
1991-2007: Dao Hua Qi Gong – Master Zhi Xing Wang - Chinese Heritage UK
1994: Medical Qi Gong – Professor Liu Liu Bang - British Acupuncture Council CPD
Professional experience in Oriental Medicine and Qigong
1986 ongoing: Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine - private praxis
1991 -2016: Acupuncture - NHS Primary Care service provider (Lambeth and Lewisham)
1993 ongoing: Dao Hua Qigong and Inspirit Way Qigong - classes, workshops and courses
2017 ongoing: Acupuncture – Brighton Community Acupuncture - community praxis
Inspirit Way Internal Alchemy Qigong
Amadis also offers evening Qigong classes, which includes Medical Qigong. Medical Qigong is an ideal supplement in addition to what we offer at Brighton Community Acupuncture as it further benefits the health and wellbeing of those who use it.
For more details please visit www.inspiritway.com/alchemy