Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Alternative Health
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Written by Mahase Maseko
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
Acupuncture A Chinese Medicine Alternative For Health Improvement.
An ancient Chinese
healing technique is used even today - Acupuncture which is very
similar to acupressure. This is a method in which fine needles are
placed in the skin at particular points - these points are called
meridians and carry energy. The positive energy that is responsible for
good health and a state of wellbeing is know as chi or qi and flows
through the energy points known as the meridian. 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.
When acupressure or special needles are used at certain locations along
all of the meridians, they in turn release all of the blockages by
stimulating the chi that is trapped. It's like removing accumulated
debris from a river so it can resume flowing freely. Chi may also flow
either too quickly or too slowly, in which case acupuncture is used to
regulate the stream of energy.
This is a 4000 year old medical discipline, practiced and perfected
over thousands of years; archaeological digs have found needles dating
back as far as 1000 BC in the Shang Dynasty. There are three types and
they are; Five Elements, Traditional Yin / Yang Theory and Western (or
medical Acupuncture). There are three schools of this medicine, all
using the same insertion points and parallel diagnostic methods;
however they use distinctive approaches to the etiology of the basic
cause of the sickness and the treatment.
The five elements acupuncture, being strictly based on Chinese
medicine's five element cycle, believes or assumes that a particular
illness is most likely to be caused by either a physical cause or
emotional stress. Following on from this, physical symptoms can only be
alleviated when those inner stresses are dealt with. Although five
elements method 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. According to the Yin/Yang theory
the overall balance of the Yin and Yang has to be maintained for good
health. More than one acupuncture energy meridian is stimulated at a
given time to trigger more than one element simultaneously.
Western Acupuncture has a tendency of focusing on the short-term,
urgent treatment which combines Western and Eastern medical techniques.
There are two sub-categories of the medical aspect, the first,
anesthetic acupuncture, is used in surgical and dental procedures.
Again it is used as a temporary pain reliever or as an analgesic for
immediate effect. Well documented, reliable medical research has shown
this therapy to be successful in treating high blood pressure and
migraines, allergies, depression, arthritis, asthma and gynecological
problems including infertility. This therapy has been very successful
in treating illnesses that do not go away with normal medication; it
has also helped in treating psychological disorders that are related to
a person's wellbeing.
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