Can Acupuncture Help You?
What is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is an ancient system of healing, with a history of continuous use stretching back over 3,000 years.Today it is practiced extensively throughout the Orient and increasingly in the West, and is the second most practiced medical system in the world
Acupuncture began with the discovery that the stimulation of specific areas of the skin affected the functioning of certain organs of the body. It evolved into a therapeutic system as the connection between the skin and the organs was better understood and more sensitive ways of stimulation were devised. Extensive research in acupuncture directly influences the hormonal, nervous, and immune systems.
In the West, acupuncture as been misleadingly represented as only being helpful in specific conditions, for example, pain or weight loss; whereas in fact, it is effective in a wide variety of conditions through its power to stimulate the body's own innate healing responses
Diagnosis
Acupuncture begins with a diagnosis of the individual's energy imbalance. Health is considered to be a function of the smooth flow of energy or "Qi" (chee), through a series of pathways or channels, which link and unite all parts of tech body into a single integrated whole. Each internal organ has its corresponding channel. If for some reason the circulation of this energy is disrupted or blocked, then organs associated with the channels will work less effectively and ill health will result.Whether an organ or channel is malfunctioning is revealed in many ways, for example, by the various symptoms produced: the facial color, emotional state, changes in the texture and feel of the skin and muscles along the channel pathway, and the appearance of the tongue and the feel of the radial pulse (located over the artery on the wrist).
The purpose of diagnosis is to establish which warmth to an acupuncture point called moxibustion