What You Need To Know About Acupuncture |
| Written by Ralph Goodson Jr | ||||||
| Friday, 09 October 2009 | ||||||
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Acupuncture and Acupressure are associated with each other and are traditional techniques of Chinese Medicine. Acupuncture too uses the meridians or the energy points in the body to help the flow of health get back to normal. When a person experiences sickness or injury the chi gets blocked and positive energy stops flowing. There are a total of 365 different acupuncture points scattered across the exterior surface of the body, these follow the paths of 14 main meridians. Trapped energy or Chi is stimulated and released by inserting special needles at specific locations or through acupressure depending on the nature of the illness. This can be compared to a river blocked with debris; removing the blocking debris allows the river to freely flow without obstruction. Acupuncture regulates the flow of 'chi' so it flows at a steady pace, not too fast and not too slow. 1000 BC). Traditional Yin/Yang theory, Western or medical acupuncture and Five Elements are the three types of acupuncture. All three use similar diagnostic methods and the same system of points, but they take a different approach to the underlying causes of an illness and its treatment. The five elements acupuncture, being strictly based on Chinese medicine's five element cycle, believes or assumes that a particular illness is most likely to be caused by either a physical cause or emotional stress. Based on this, it believes that physical cure can be achieved only by removing the mental stress first. Five elements method is a slow process as it does not merely treat the symptoms but the reason behind the illness due to which the process takes a longer period of time to achieve full recovery. The old yin/yang theory of acupuncture mainly concentrates in bringing back the entire balance of the yin and yang in the human body. In this type of acupuncture different points are pierced with the needles all along the meridians in order to help cure and affect different illnesses in your body. Western acupuncture combines Eastern and Western medical techniques and its focus is more on urgent short term treatment. Out of the two sub categories, anesthetic acupuncture is the first and it is mostly used in surgical and dental procedures. The second sub-category is that first-aid or symptomatic isn't used for the illness's diagnosis but in order to assist with the temporary relief of analgesic pain. Some very respectable and reputable medical research has shown that it has been very effective at treating allergies, depression, arthritis, asthma, gynecological disorders, infertility, high blood pressure and migraines. Acupuncture is found to be one of the most effective methods to treat illnesses that persist for a long time without any results from conventional treatment or when the illness is caused by problems caused by one's lifestyle.
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