A recent small clinical experiment shows that acupuncture may provide important health benefits for people suffering from COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Acupuncture is usually used as an adjunct treatment to help offset labored breathing after exertion. This is the biggest problem facing patients with COPD.
Both the autonomic nervous system and the hormones have to be balanced in order to commence and maintain sleep. A lot of studies have demonstrated acupuncture’s ability to help promote the restoration of homeostasis and preserve the balance of biological chemicals in the central nervous system.
Acupuncture is a great way to help you overcome your cigarette cravings and at the same time help rid your body of the toxins. However, it should be noted that it only can help cure your smoking addiction if you are truly willing to stop the habit.
Used for thousands of years as a way to treat various illnesses such as asthma, acupuncture traces its roots in ancient Chinese culture. Whilst the symptomatic and even severe conditions of asthma can be effectively treated by Modern Western Medicine, it is not designed to completely cure the disease.
Acupuncture for the treatment of infertility has been used around for thousands of years and in our generation, several medical studies have been done to prove that it really works in curing several types of fertility problems.
Chinese medicine practitioners believe that Bell’s palsy is the result of “Wind Attack” or Zhong Feng. This condition is believed to be related to an invasion of “wind” resulting in blood stagnation and an imbalance in the vital energy or “Qi” of the person.
Chinese acupuncture is starting to get into the radar of dieters who are into natural forms of treatment for losing weight. Acupuncture taps into the many invisible energy meridians of the body.
Acupuncture can definitely treat depression. If you hate being depressed and feel so helpless in escaping it, you may be glad to know that acupuncture can treat and even cure your depression along with its unwanted symptoms, from losing focus on your goals, lack of sleeping, to lack of energy.
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word acupuncture? You may imagine, if you are like a lot of people, a very painful way of treating illness in which a poor soul is stuck with needles in various parts of his body and face.
Clinical studies have found acupuncture can alleviate the pain and cramping as well as the length of the pre-menstrual cramping painful malady called dysmenorrhea.
At the end of six weeks it was revealed that the acupuncture group experienced the same improvement in depressive symptoms as those in the high- dose Prozac group. What’s more the acupuncture group also had fewer side effects and a greater improvement in their symptoms of anxiety.
Chinese archeologists believe that flint known as bian stones or sharp bone pieces were the earliest acupuncture needles used. Needles that were made from bonze, copper, and iron or even gold or silver were the early versions of modern acupuncture needles.