Dr Mike Armour

Dr Mike Armour is an experienced traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioner with a specific focus on endometriosis and pelvic pain.  He uses a range of modalities including acupuncture, herbal medicine, and TCM based dietary and lifestyle advice to help reduce pain and other symptoms including bloating, fatigue, headaches, dysmenorrhea (period pain) and pelvic pain. 

Mike completed his honours degree in biomedicine at the University of Auckland before going on to study traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture.  Mike is also senior research fellow in reproductive health at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University where he is currently running several clinical trials on endometriosis, menstrual health, and complementary medicine. Mike has published 62 peer reviewed articles on various aspects of women’s health including medicinal cannabis and both western and Chinese herbal medicine. Mike is also an author on several textbook chapters including a forthcoming chapter on the use of medicinal cannabis to treat herbal medicine. Mike has had significant media attention on his work including articles in The Conversation, an SBS Insight special on endometriosis, an SBS special on herbal medicine for period pain and over 300 pieces of international news media with an estimated readership of 80 million across over 100 countries including Channel 7 News, ABC News, and The Guardian. 

Mike is heavily involved in research and treatment of endometriosis, and he was the invited complementary medicine expert on the endometriosis expert working group (EEWG) for the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) that developed the first Australian guidelines for Endometriosis, released in January 2021. Mike is also a World Endometriosis Society Ambassador, Chair of Endometriosis Australia’s clinical advisory committee, Chair of Endometriosis Australia’s research committee, Academic lead of the Menstrual Cycle Research Network (MCRN) at Western Sydney University and Chair of the Australasian Interdisciplinary Researchers in Endometriosis (AIRE).