The Things You Need To Know About Acupuncture

by Ralph Goodson Jr

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.

When specially designed needles or acupressure are placed at certain locations on the meridians the blocks are released thus enabling the chi to circulate freely. It’s like removing accumulated debris from a river so it can resume flowing freely. Acupuncture is also very effective in cases where either the chi flows too slowly or may flow too fast; acupuncture controls and maintains the speed of the flow of positive energy.

This form of medicine has been practiced in China for at least 4,000 years, with these needles found in archaeology digs of the late Shang Dynasty (c. Acupuncture is of three kinds: traditional Yin/Yang Theory, Five Elements and the Western or medical 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.

Chinese medicine’s five element cycle is the basis for the Five Element Acupuncture discipline; the belief here is that ailments are caused by both physical conditions and emotional stress. Based on this it is thought that only if inner stress is taken care off then physical illness or symptoms can be cured. Full recovery is a slow process as the emphasis in the five element process is on finding and treating the cause of the illness. The old yin/yang theory of acupuncture mainly concentrates in bringing back the entire balance of the yin and yang in the human body. Combinations of the different acupuncture points on the meridians are simultaneously stimulated so that more than one element is affected.

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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