Acupuncture is an age-old anatomy of Chinese anesthetic involving the admittance of solid lifeforms acupuncture all-overs into the bark at specific credibility on the anatomy to accomplish a ameliorative effect.
Acupuncture is acclimated to animate accustomed healing, advance affection and energy, abate or abate affliction and advance action of afflicted areas of the body. It is safe and able and is generally auspiciously acclimated as an another to medications or alike surgery. Abatement is generally acquired with acupuncture
Acupuncture all-overs are solid, usually stainless animate (they may additionally be gold or silver), and ad measurement from 13-70 mm, although best reusable ones up to about 150 mm in breadth can be purchased. The all-overs are actual fine, adjustable and angled but articulate at the tip. They are ‘atraumatic’, acceptation that they do not accept a acid bend like a hypodermic needle, which slices through tissue. Their architecture allows acupuncture all-overs to accelerate calmly through tissues and makes them absurd to account bleeding or accident to basal structures.
Acupuncture credibility (also referred to as ‘acupoints’) are places on the bark that accept a lower attrition to the access of electricity than the surrounding bark and are allotment of a arrangement of credibility that were mapped centuries ago by the Chinese. Most are begin forth ‘meridians’ or ‘channels’ that are believed to be the pathways by which activity or Qi (pronounced ‘Chee’) flows through the body. Acupoints are amid either by anecdotic anatomical landmarks or by the classical adjustment (for example: “the point area the average feel touches the thigh back continuing at attention”).
A dull, heavy, or aching activity generally occurs back the aggravate is accurately placed. This is referred to as ‘de Qi’ and is advised by some acceptable acupuncturists to be all-important for acupuncture to be effective. The acquaintance of AFCI is that abatement of affliction can generally be acquired after afflictive the de Qi response. Recent fMRI studies announce that there is a aberration in the acknowledgment of the academician to needling with and after the de Qi sensation1.
The all-overs are larboard in abode for 15-30 minutes, and the practitioner may dispense the all-overs to strengthen or abate the breeze of Qi. Lifting, twisting, and alternating are some of the needling techniques a practitioner may use.
ACUPUNCTURE HELPS
According to a recent article in Cardiology Journal, approximately 6.4 million people in the U.S. suffer from symptomatic cardiac disease—usually involving fatigue and chest pain. For most of these Americans, drug therapy or surgical procedures like cardiac bypass or angioplasty will cure their suffering. However, about 5 to 15 percent of cases cannot be helped by standard therapies. Those who continue to suffer with chest pain are known to have “Refractory Angina Pectoris” or simply RAP (also known as “intractable Angina Pectoris” or iAP). For these people, there is no clear cure. While there are numerous, new experimental methods of helping, from spinal stimulators to the latest drugs, there is a very old therapy that has also shown to help reduce pain: Acupuncture.
In a 2005 study, researchers at Liaocheng Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Shandong, China randomly divided up 70 RAP patients into two groups of 35 each. The control group received the standard medications including nitric acid, beta blockers, calcium antagonists, aspirin and heparin. The study group received the same drugs and acupuncture once daily for 10 consecutive days. The group that received the addition of acupuncture improved significantly over the group that only received drug therapy on measures of perceived pain (89% vs. 60%), electrocardiogram readings (63% vs. 31%) and even sudden death (6% vs. 20%). The researchers concluded that acupuncture is a safe and effective treatment for reducing angina symptoms when used in conjunction with medications.
By Thomas Boldt, L.Ac.