Acupuncture Treatment

Chinese are well known for being the pioneers of almost everything. Their culture is widely popular for being the “first” in many endeavors and inventions that the world has known and continues to utilize in present times despite being “ancient years-old.” Aside from gunpowder, firecrackers, silk, potteries, noodles, and herbal medicines, ancient Chinese scientists have discovered a famous medical intervention that has helped millions of people around the world. It is called acupuncture.

The purpose of this intervention is to induce a healing process by creating clear pathways for Qi, a positive energy, to flow along the twelve major meridians of the human body. Chinese scholars believed that once a certain pathway is blocked, the flow of Qi is interrupted, thus the person feels the pain on a particular area.

Acupuncture is well known as a type of system of care or remedy that utilizes needles to bring about relief on a certain part of the body, especially on those areas that feels painful or aching (or where the Qi energy was blocked). These needles can be pricked on about 360 to 700 acupoints that are distributed along the twelve meridians of the human body.

The HOKU point is an acupoint that is often useful in plummeting or eradicating pain or symptom. It is located on the back of the hand, and halfway between the junction of the first and second metacarpal bones of the fingers. A certain valley or depressed area is usually created once the thumb of the opposite hand is used to press this site. It is also useful in triggering the immune system to response to certain autoimmune disorders or infectious disorders.

Here are other acupoints that are commonly used in this type of therapy:

• REN MAI – Located on the midline of the front and back aspects of the trunk .
• DU MAI – Transversely located on the midline of the head.
• YIN CHANNELS OF THE HAND – These points are connected to the lungs and heart.
• YANG CHANNELS OF THE HANDS – Acupoints on these area are associated with the large and the small intestines.
• YIN CHANNELS OF THE FOOT – Acupoints on these sites are link to the kidneys, liver, and spleen.

YANG CHANNELS OF THE FOOT – acupoints on this area are associated with the gallbladder, stomach, and the urinary bladder
This traditional Chinese medical intervention is usually indicated for those who are suffering from acute or chronic pain, such as cancer pain, bone pains, heart pains, muscle pains, and other inflammations. It is also helpful in relieving diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting.

However, it is contraindicated to those who are suffering from other conditions, in which needle prick or any break in the skin integrity should not be made. Some of these disorders are Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS, Hepatitis B, Burns, Infections, chronic heart failure, severe hypertension, vascular diseases, and other severe trauma and inflammations.

There have been continuous research studies that try to link the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of cognitive mental disorders, such as delirium, dementia, dissociative fugue, and other organic mental disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinsonism.

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