Private Clinic · Watford, Hertfordshire
Ancient wisdom.
Profound medicine.
Your balance restored.
The 5 Realms brings the depth of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Five-Element Acupuncture to a private clinic in Watford, specialist care for women’s health, men’s health, pain, and the full spectrum of the body’s intelligence.
The Philosophy
Medicine that reads the whole person,
not only the symptoms
Chinese medicine is not a catalogue of remedies applied to conditions. It is a complete system for understanding the dynamic relationship between a person and the forces, internal and external, that shape their health. The Five Elements, Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water, are not metaphors. They are a map of the body’s own cycles, and the intelligence embedded within them.
When that map is read accurately, the treatment becomes precise in a way that Western diagnostics rarely achieve: not simply asking what is wrong, but why is it wrong here, in this person, at this time? The answer changes everything.
“The superior physician helps before the early budding of disease.”
Huangdi Neijing (The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine, c. 2600 BCE)
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What We Offer
A complete system of Eastern medicine
From the precision of Five-Element diagnosis to the deep release of Eastern bodywork, each modality chosen because it works, and because it honours the intelligence of the body.
Flagship Treatment
Five-Element
Acupuncture
The classical tradition of acupuncture guided by the Five Elements, diagnosing the constitutional imbalance at the root of disease. Specialist in women’s health, menopause, fertility, PCOS, low libido, and men’s health including ED.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
TCM & Chinese
Therapies
Traditional acupuncture for pain and injury alongside moxibustion, fire cupping, electroacupuncture and auricular thermal therapy, the full classical toolkit of Chinese medicine.
Eastern Bodywork
Massage &
Bodywork
Shiatsu, Thai massage, Shirodhara, Bamboo, Chavutti Thirumal, Eastern Stone Therapy, Reiki, Reflexology and Indian Head Massage, Eastern traditions working with the body’s own energy systems.
Whole-Person Health
Naturopathy &
Lifestyle Coaching
Naturopathic assessment and health coaching that bridges Eastern philosophy and modern functional medicine, nutrition, lifestyle, circadian health and the foundations that determine everything else.
Medical Wellness
Vitamin Injections
& IV Infusions
Vitamin B12, D3, glutathione and tailored IV infusions, direct cellular nutrition that bridges Eastern and Western approaches to optimising health from the inside out.
A Considered Gift
Gift
Vouchers
The gift of genuine restoration, beautifully presented digital vouchers for any treatment or monetary value. Personal, meaningful, and available instantly.
The Five Elements
Understanding your constitutional type
In Five-Element acupuncture, each person has a primary constitutional element that shapes their physiology, their emotional patterns, and their susceptibility to particular imbalances. Treatment begins with understanding which element is at the root.
Vision, planning, decisiveness, tendons & ligaments, eyes, menstruation
Emotion: anger & frustration
Circulation, consciousness, sleep, intimacy, tongue, arteries
Emotion: joy & anxiety
Digestion, thought, worry, flesh & muscle, appetite, immunity
Emotion: worry & sympathy
Breath, skin, grief, letting go, immunity, body hair
Emotion: grief & loss
Vitality, will, fear, bones & marrow, fertility, ears
Emotion: fear & courage
Conditions We Treat
What brings people
to The 5 Realms
Women’s & Men’s Health
Pain, Injury & Everything Else
“The root of the way of life, of birth and change, is Qi. The myriad things of heaven and earth all obey this law.”
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Your Practitioner
Colin Solomon
Acupuncturist · TCM Practitioner · Watford
Colin Solomon has been practising acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine for over 17 years at a private clinic in Watford. His primary specialism is Five-Element acupuncture, the classical constitutional tradition that treats the root of imbalance rather than the presenting symptoms alone.
He has particular expertise in women’s health, menopause, perimenopause, fertility, PCOS and endometriosis, as well as men’s health, including low libido and erectile dysfunction. In his experience, these conditions respond exceptionally well to Five-Element treatment because they arise from constitutional patterns that Chinese medicine has been identifying and treating for thousands of years.
Alongside acupuncture, Colin practises the full range of classical Chinese therapies and offers Eastern massage, naturopathy and IV wellness at The 5 Realms, creating an integrative clinic that bridges Eastern wisdom and modern clinical practice.
Part of the Create Your Wellness family
TCM, Five-Element Acupuncture, Eastern massage, you are here
Private Clinic · Watford
Begin with a
consultation.
Every treatment begins with a thorough assessment, understanding you before anything else. Book a discovery consultation and let the medicine do the rest.