Basis of acupuncture

Acupuncture is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine. It has more than two thousand years history and plays an important role in human health in China. In the Tang Dynasty, they spread to Japan, India and other countries in Southeast Asia. In the past two decades, acupuncture has grown in popularity in the United States. Used million adults in the United States has ever had. Now, acupuncture is a medicine of the oldest and most widely used method in the world.

The term acupuncture is positioning long, thin needles at various points on the body. There are several ways) the insertion of needles, including care for the corner where they are used, different types of needles (there are nine, but most doctors use only six types of needles, and in many ways of turning vibration of the needles. The needles are placed depends on the body's disease patients.

Acupuncture has a good effect on many diseases, including some strange disease. There are two main effects of acupuncture.

The first major effect of acupuncture is pain. This is the most striking feature of acupuncture and is often used for all types of acute and chronic pain, including headache, menstrual cramps, tennis elbow, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, osteoarthritis and back pain. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, health is achieved by maintaining the body in a "stable condition" and the pain caused by a disturbance in the patterns of energy flow (Qi) caused in the body. From acupuncture therapy to correct these imbalances piercing landmarks and will relieve the pain.

The second major effect of acupuncture is to adapt the organism functions. Scope of acupuncture treatment is very broad, because no medical treatment for the disease, but it fits the body functions. It is proposed that acupuncture produces its effects through regulating the nervous system, which support the activity of pain-killing biochemicals such as endorphins and immune system cells at specific points of the body. Moreover, studies have shown that acupuncture may be the brains chemistry by changing the release of neurotransmitters and neurohormones, and thus to change the parts of the central nervous system, sensation and involuntary body functions such as immune reactions and processes that regulate the blood of a person printing, circulation and body temperature. The effect of acupuncture, it can adapt in many chronic diseases, such as his addiction, stroke rehabilitation use, and asthma.

Acupuncture is safe and side effects are minimal, but because acupuncture is piercing the skin with needles, the potential adverse effects, such as accidental puncture of the lungs, which can lead to pneumothorax and bacterial infection of the acupuncture needles. qualified acupuncture can prevent these side effects.

Health and wellbeing with acupuncture, research and maintenance of thousands of years, as they are verified in practice, its positive effects. Patients can try and take advantage of this wonderful treatment.