What is Acupuncture ?
Acupuncture is a method of treatment that developed in China. It involves the insertion of very fine needles at specific points on the surface of the body. When these points are stimulated, they have a therapeutic effect, restoring health and preventing disease.
Why Acupuncture ?
Drugs and surgery often cause negative side effects and can also be quite expensive. Acupuncture is a cost-effective alternative that has proven its efficacy over the course of centuries. It is "holistic", meaning that the "whole" person is treated, both mind and body, not just isolated systems or parts of the body. When the energy of the body is balanced, the body is empowered to heal itself. Treatments do not cause side effects, and when treated for a specific condition, a person often notices an overall improvement in health.
Disease Concept
According to the theory of Acupuncture, restoring a balance between positive and negative life energy (which is called Yin or Yang) ensures healthy condition of the body. The imbalance at the energy levels can be caused by
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Anxiety, Tension and emotions
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Seasonal changes and specific response of individual to changes of temperature.
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Biological factors like bacteria, viruses, parasites, animal bites etc.
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Chemical factors like acids, alkalis, poisons, drugs etc.
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Mechanical causes like injuries, accidents, overwork etc.
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Genetic factors.
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Imbalance diet and living environment
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If one can avoid these causative factors, no imbalance of energy will take effect but once the equilibrium is disturbed, diseases will start appearing in the body. By restoring this equilibrium all diseases can be cured however complicated are they.
Diagnosis in Acupuncture
Diagnosis is the most important part of any method of treatment. The disturbed equilibrium of energy can be diagnosed by various techniques in Acupuncture. The patient appearance, behavior, sitting and talking style, skin color etc. are indicative of abnormalities to many conditions of energy imbalance. Then through the knowledge of tongue diagnosis and pulse diagnosis, each and everything is put together to develop a holistic approach of causative factors and a formulation of the method to restore the imbalance and health.
Is Acupuncture Painful ?
Acupuncture is almost painless. As most of the people have experienced the thick hypodermic needles, therefore they are needle phobic. Acupuncture needling technique is so swift that people are usually amazed to feel it so little. We use only sterile and disposable needles
Is Acupuncture slow ?
Usually an Acupuncturist get patients with chronic diseases which are not cured by routine therapies. To arrest the chronic disease process and then turn it back to normal equilibrium takes time. But if the patient get treatment at the start of the disease, its prompt effect will astonish the patient.
What does Acupuncture treat?
Psychological
Depression
Anxiety
OCD
PTSD
Somatization disorder
Hypersomnia
Insomnia
Cardiovascular
Essential hypertension
Coronary Artery disease
(Can avoid coronary bypass)
Anemia
Angina
Gastro-Intestinal
Esophageal spasms
GERD
Hyperacidity
Gastric and peptic Ulcers
Irritable bowel and colitis
Benign diarrhea and; constipation
Respiratory
Sinusitis
Common cold
Allergic rhinitis
Bronchitis
<>Asthma
Skin Diseases
Itching
Psoriasis
Leucoderma
Falling of Hair
Musculo-Skeletal
Pain, swelling, stiffness and weakness in neck, shoulder, arms, hands, fingers, back, knees, and feet.
Localized traumatic injuries, sprains, strains, tendonitis, contractures.
All forms of arthritis.
Fibromyalgia.
Work and sports related injuries.
Neurological
Headache: tension, migraine, cluster, mixed.
Meniere's syndrome
Trigeminal neuralgia
Sciatica
Disc problems
Peripheral neuropathies
Neurogenic bladder
Stroke residual
Gynecological
Infertility.
PMS.
Dysmenorrhoea.
Menopause syndrome.
Benign irregular menstruation.
Benign amenorrhea.
Leucorrhoea
Eye, Ear, Nose, Dental
Allergic conjunctivitis
Sinusitis
Deafness
Visual changes related to some neurological diseases
Tinnitus
Tonsillitis
Tooth Pain
Post extraction pain
Gingivitis
Other
Withdrawal from street and; pharmacological drugs
Appetite suppression
