What Is Acupuncture? By: Carol Bell
Acupuncture and Acupressure are associated with each other and are traditional techniques of Chinese Medicine. Acupuncture helps in curing diseases and in maintaining good health and a state of wellbeing. Free flowing energy is the key to good health according to this technique so what it tries to do is to stimulate the energy points so the qi or chi flows again. Along the body's exterior surface, there is a total of three hundred and sixty five different points of acupuncture scattered around, all of these points follow fourteen main meridian paths.
The blockage is freed when acupressure or special needles are applied at specific points on the meridian where the 'chi' is trapped. Take the time to visualize having to remove obstacles that are blocking a river's flow so that it is able to freely flow again. 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.
Within China, this particular form of medicine has been being practiced for a minimum of four thousand years, with all of these needles being found within archaeology digs of the late Shang Dynasty. Three schools of acupuncture exist today, these being the Traditional Yin/Yang Theory, The Five Elements and the Western or Medical Acupuncture. The three schools of acupuncture though using the same acupuncture points and parallel diagnostic methods use distinctive approaches to the etiology of the basic cause of the sickness and the treatment.
The basis of five element acupuncture is the five element cycle seen in Chinese medicine; the underlying belief is that an illness can be due to a physical cause or emotional stress. Following on from this, physical symptoms can only be alleviated when those inner stresses are dealt with. Although fiv elements acupuncture may help curing a person completely from his physical aliments it is a slow and gradual process because it begins by treating the fundamental causes of the ailment. The theory based on the traditional yin/yang theory mainly focuses on the restoring of overall balance of the yang and the yang within the 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.
The Western Acupuncture methods are faster and the period of treatment is not very long - this form of treatment is a combination of both western and eastern practices. Acupuncture is further divided into two classes, the first one being anesthetic acupuncture that is used by the dentists and during surgeries. Symptomatic or 'first aid' is the second sub category; this is used mainly for temporary analgesic pain relieving. Reputable medical research has found it to be effective in treating depression, allergies, asthma, arthritis, infertility, gynecological disorders, migraines and high blood pressure. However, similar to several of the medicines used for energy, acupuncture is most effective when it is used for treating persistent conditions that don't respond readily to conventional medicines, or when dealing with all of the disorders that are related to the lifestyle of that person.
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The blockage is freed when acupressure or special needles are applied at specific points on the meridian where the 'chi' is trapped. Take the time to visualize having to remove obstacles that are blocking a river's flow so that it is able to freely flow again. 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.
Within China, this particular form of medicine has been being practiced for a minimum of four thousand years, with all of these needles being found within archaeology digs of the late Shang Dynasty. Three schools of acupuncture exist today, these being the Traditional Yin/Yang Theory, The Five Elements and the Western or Medical Acupuncture. The three schools of acupuncture though using the same acupuncture points and parallel diagnostic methods use distinctive approaches to the etiology of the basic cause of the sickness and the treatment.
The basis of five element acupuncture is the five element cycle seen in Chinese medicine; the underlying belief is that an illness can be due to a physical cause or emotional stress. Following on from this, physical symptoms can only be alleviated when those inner stresses are dealt with. Although fiv elements acupuncture may help curing a person completely from his physical aliments it is a slow and gradual process because it begins by treating the fundamental causes of the ailment. The theory based on the traditional yin/yang theory mainly focuses on the restoring of overall balance of the yang and the yang within the 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.
The Western Acupuncture methods are faster and the period of treatment is not very long - this form of treatment is a combination of both western and eastern practices. Acupuncture is further divided into two classes, the first one being anesthetic acupuncture that is used by the dentists and during surgeries. Symptomatic or 'first aid' is the second sub category; this is used mainly for temporary analgesic pain relieving. Reputable medical research has found it to be effective in treating depression, allergies, asthma, arthritis, infertility, gynecological disorders, migraines and high blood pressure. However, similar to several of the medicines used for energy, acupuncture is most effective when it is used for treating persistent conditions that don't respond readily to conventional medicines, or when dealing with all of the disorders that are related to the lifestyle of that person.
For More Information Visit Our Website www.acupuncture.superiorhealth.co.uk Or Our Health Blog www.superiorhealth.co.uk/blog
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