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 Overview
Acupuncture has a history of over 3,000 years. Acupuncture utilizes
fine needles made of metal, usually steel but sometimes gold or
silver needles, to treat various sicknesses by inserting them through
the skin into one or several points of the body. The needles will
remain in a static state or be manipulated according to the healing
principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Sometimes, mostly to
treat a pain condition, needles will be connected with low DC currents
to apply for a stronger stimulation. The needles will be withdrawn
about twenty minutes later to complete a treatment. During treatment
patient is asked to relax and maintain to a stable posture. He or
she might breath calmly and lightly during the needling. The treatment
is so comfortable many patients fall into sleep during treatment.
So far over 12 million Americans have turned to Acupuncture for
help, and many western physicians as well as medical researchers
have experienced the powerful healing effect that it has for the
body.
How
it works
The
classical explanation of Traditional Chinese Medicine is that meridians
in the body are like rivers flowing through the body transporting
the energy (Chi or Qi in Chinese) to irrigate and nourish the tissues.
An obstruction in the movement of these meridians (river of chi)
is like a dam that backs up the flow in one part of the body and
restricts it in others. Sickness of organ or pain over certain part
of the body will then occur.
When the acupuncture needles sticks into the points of the meridians
it can stir up the Chi and unblock the obstruction at the dams and
re-establish the regular flow of Chi through the meridians. Acupuncture
treatments therefore help the body's internal organs to correct
imbalances of productive activities and in the regular circulation
of their energy through the meridians.
The
explanation of modern science is that needling the acupuncture
points stimulates the mid brain or autonomic nervous system to
release chemical substances in the smooth or striate muscles,
the neurons and the post neuronal fibers. These chemical substances,
such as well-known morphine-like substance endorphin, will either
change the experience of pain or they will trigger the release
of other chemicals or hormones which influence the body's own
internal regulation system.
The improved energy and chemical substance produced by acupuncture
results in stimulating the body's natural healing abilities and
in promoting physical and emotional well-being.
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