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What is Acupuncture Used For?

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Acupuncture relieves you and your body from pain. If you ask me what is acupuncture used for? My answer would be it is a whole-body treatment; it works mostly for pain relief like backache especially lower back pain, headache and it also works for post-surgery and chemotherapy associated nausea and vomiting.

Proper needles are inserted on proper acupoints on your body to regulate and balance the flow of qi, also known as chi. this qi enables your body points to eradicate the negative blockage of your chi so that a clear pathway of your positive energy will eventually flow properly. Additionally, with this qi, balanced circulation of the 12 points in your qi will be properly regulated. These points are also called meridians. These meridians will ease and even improve the flow of energy in your body.

In addition, one of the main points of Acupuncture involves stimulating and regulating the healing energy and power in your body that will help you perform what you need to do. In fact, this will improve your health and reduce health problems. You will eventually enjoy a healthy living. In addition, you will be able to do what you need to do in order for you to accomplish what you need to achieve for the day.

Moreover, the shallow insertion of needles will allow a pathway for positive energy to flow into your system. It also eliminates negative things or ailments to enter into your body. Although it creates a space for your system so that it will regulate the positive flow of energy and circulation and even if it is natural and traditional, it is still used by a medical professional and medicinal field. In fact, doctors use this for their patients so that their patients will also be able to feel the positive effects of Acupuncture.

It will be very helpful for treating many illnesses such as addiction of alcohol, bronchitis, asthma, constipation, carpal syndrome tunnel, diarrhea, , facial tics, fibromyalgia, facial tics, , irregular periods, menstrual cramps, menopausal symptoms, , sinusitis, irritable bowel system, osteoarthritis, tendonitis and stroke habilitation. It is also working for problems of urinary.

It is recommended for strains, sports injuries, sprains, whiplash, neck pain, nerve compression, pain resulting from spinal cord injuries and sciatica. It also covers the treatment of allergies. You are also good at the sore throat, tinnitus (ringing in ears), and gastroesophageal reflux known as heartburn, ulcers, bladder and kidney infections and blood pressure.

It is capable of curing infertility, endometriosis, insomnia, memory problems, multiple sclerosis, sensory disturbance, depression, anxiety, and many other psychological problems. It can even help in brain injury. Many smokers have also tried and found a good result in quitting smoking by this therapy. It sounds interesting that there is treatment for weight loss as well in acupuncture.

Conclusion

Everything, Acupuncture is the traditional medicine that will help you improve your body and eliminate bodily ailments. What is Acupuncture Used For? Unlike artificial medicines, using natural and traditional medicine will definitely assure good health and improve an even strong body and immune system to avoid ailments from entering your system.

Modern Acupuncture Treatment

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Acupuncture developments have evolved from the depth of insertion and traditional methods, For instance, Fu’s subcutaneous needling (FSN). This is an innovative style of modern acupuncture treatment that focuses on subcutaneous depth. Studies carried on FSN, like a clinical trial for FSN on the low back pain that suggests it’s safe and has immediate effects.

Modern Acupuncture treatment Techniques

If an acupuncture needle is placed around or in an area of local pain. There is pain relief that is achieved frequently to some degree. This has led many doctors to develop and use this logical and straightforward system of point selection for pain relief. Several doctors will treat only the painful areas, while others will be looking at the muscle groups which run over the painful area and then treat the muscles.

These methods of point selection will represent the rediscovery process, however, due to their simplicity, they will be useful to the patient. Such systems show that acupuncture is effective without using traditional Chinese concepts, however, the acupuncturist will only apply the ideas to the painful conditions since there are no local painful areas or tender points in diseases like asthma. Additionally, the pain relief that is obtained by the patient is more prolonged and better, if a full range of the traditional Chinese concepts is applied.

The great advantage of modern acupuncture is that it is easy to learn. It will enable a wide usage of simple acupuncture methods. The simplified and adapted acupuncture forms are acceptable methods of therapy in modern medical practices.

Modern acupuncture involves the inclusion of diagnostic technologies and imaging for the use for the needles in a technique that is guided. Electro-acupuncture, Heat based, and photo-based (laser therapy) is widely used in modern acupuncture methods. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for instance is being used to reveal how acupuncture is working in the brain.

Modern techniques for acupuncture need to be learned by current practitioners. There is no excuse for not learning a current method if you take being an acupuncturist seriously. Taking an acupuncture course online is a great way to keep updated.

New Methods of Stimulating Acupuncture Points

Modern ideas about acupuncture are radical and represent the starting point of a totally new approach. Acupuncture points can now be simulated using various techniques. The use of small electrical stimulators which allows small amplitude of electrical currents to pass through the sets of the acupuncture needles which are paired.

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In China, some of the electrical machines will be used in replacing prolonged manual stimulation for the acupuncture needle acupuncture anesthesia. In the West, The electrical stimulation is used often as part of acupuncture therapy. It passed between the acupuncture needles which have been already inserted in the skin.

There is no clear guideline on the intensity and frequency of the electrical current which needs to be used on patients with any specific condition. Safe laser beams are used biologically in stimulating the acupuncture points. This will replace the acupuncture needles.

Summary

If correctly used, these modern acupuncture treatment seems to be more effective. However, a great deal of work should be done before they are properly evaluated. There is the use of magnets as well as magnetic fields over the acupuncture points. Although, the evaluation of such methods as a mode of therapy is full of challenges.

How old is Acupuncture?

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Chinese Acupuncture dates way back over 5000 years in China. This answers the question, How Old is Acupuncture? Acupuncture will be dated back to the 1st millennium B.C.E. in China. The hieroglyphics are dating back to 1000 BC which imply acupuncture usage. There are stone probes which are found in the prehistoric caves archeologists are of the consensus are the first acupuncture instruments.

Chinese Acupuncture with the use of needles; along with the system of meridians dates back to 2000 years. In approximately 200 B.C.E. the Yellow Emperor’s Internal Medicine Classic called Huang Di Nei Jing laid down the basics of acupuncture theory, philosophy and principals. This text which dates back to 305-204 BC describes the use of acupuncture. This ancient text is the foundation for Chinese acupuncture today.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine is created from the religion of Taoism (pronounced Daoism). Taoism looked to nature to seek an understanding of the human body and its functions. It looked at the elements, the seasons and growth of plants and compared them to the body and how energy flows in the body. Ancient Chinese Doctors started to compare disease with natural phenomena. Ex. A drought can lead to a fire and a cough can be a fire in the body leading to fever. Thus the concept of the elements, seasons and nature was correlated to the body parts and functions as well.

Chinese Acupuncture is performed by inserting needles into particular points in the body and manipulating the needles upon insertion. Needle placement is based on the idea of the meridians and pressure points. Meridians are channels that interconnect allowing qi or vital energy to flow through the body. The twelve standard meridians can be found located on the arms and legs. There are also eight special meridians. As with the concept of negative and positive polarities called Yin and Yang, the meridians are divided up as Yin or Yang. The Yin meridians for the arm are Pericardium, Heart, and Lungs. The Yang meridians for the arm are Large Intestines, Triple Warmer, and Small intestines.

The Yin meridians for the leg are the Liver, kidney, and spleen. The Yang meridians are the Gallbladder, stomach, and Bladder. The 8 special meridians are those points along the body one says ouch too. In addition to the meridians are 400 acupuncture points along the various meridians. These are where the needles are inserted in the acupuncture points along the meridians.

The use of Chinese acupuncture is one type of treatment that brings the body back to harmony. Chinese acupuncture is used to alleviate the disharmony by opening the blockages that have come into being. These blockages don’t allow for qi to flow throughout one’s body. Qi has to flow for health to happen. Inserting the needles opens the blockages releasing the qi to flow again. Thus one’s health is restored.

Conclusion

How old is Acupuncture? Acupuncture has evolve over the years to become what it is today. When getting treatment, the needles are inserted for approximately not more than 15 to 20 minutes at a session. Make sure the acupuncturist you visit is licensed. You should not get your treatment from an acupuncturist who is not licensed. Needles used by a non-experienced or non-licensed practitioner can cause some serious bodily damage.