A Quick Fact About Acupuncture
An Interesting Spiritual Healing Fact
Acupuncture for Headaches
headaches. They impact on every part of their lives. Headaches can disrupt their employment, schooling and social activities. Those people who suffer from chronic headaches, migraines or cluster headaches continue to search for an answer that is more than taking another medication or lying in a dark room waiting for it to go away. Some of the medication that works have side effects and the pain that one endures waiting in the darkened room for sleep to come is more than some can tolerate. That...
Acupuncture
Have you ever wondered about those long thin needles that you hear people talk about using to restore their health
or eliminate stress? How many times have you seen reports on the television or read articles in magazines or the newspapers that
tell of the benefits of this practice? Most people have seen or heard about acupuncture but how many of them actually know
anything about it other than to say that some needles get stuck into you and that makes you feel better. There is so much more to
be said. The word acupuncture means needle piercing. That is a fairly accurate translation since this is a Chinese medicinal
method by which thin needles are placed in specific places to cause certain reactions. These places are called acupuncture
points. The belief here is that those special points will allow the rebalancing of the bodys energy and so allow for whatever is
making a person unwell to be alleviated. Acupuncture treatments are best known as a method for relieving pain.
Unlike most medical courses of action acupuncture is part of Chinese philosophy not just a
medical procedure and its success is best explained in these terms. The philosophy tells us that the balance of yin and yang, yin
being dark and yang being light, the life elements, is what the aim of this traditional Chinese medicine is all about. If the yin
and yang become out of sync the body becomes ill. Only restoring the balance can restore the body's physical and emotional
health.
Although many Westerner's are still leery of such
treatments the past forty years has seen the acceptance and increased use of acupuncture in North America. The needles must be
put in very specific places to help very specific conditions. Despite this fact the uses of acupuncture is almost limitless.
Acupuncture therapists claim that they can fix many respiratory conditions including the common cold. They can help
gastrointestinal disorders like ulcers, colitis or gastritis. It is used for neurological and musculoskeletal disorders from
migraine headaches to osteoarthritis, sciatica and even bed wetting. Many acupuncturists will tell you that a lot of chronic
conditions that people are afflicted with like arthritis, skin disorders or injuries can be helped. It can also help eye and
mouth problems like pink eye and gum disease. There are some acupuncture specialists who claim that they can help those suffering
from depression, sleep disorders or chronic fatigue. Others will say they can cure such addictions as smoking, alcoholism, eating
disorders or drug addictions.
Westerners, who really do not necessarily understand the idea of balancing the body's yin and yang, are still
turning to this method of healing because they are tired of modern medicine which is so much more invasive. They do not want to
take pills for everything. They tire of pills to make them sleep or to make them feel happy. Many people are looking for natural
methods to heal themselves. This is one reason that acupuncture continues its growth in popularity in the western
world.
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Discoveries in Acupuncture
08/24/2008
Acupuncture eases pain (Deseret Morning News)
Janine Ottley's first visit to an acupuncturist was an act of desperation. She was on a cruise to Mexico when a killer headache struck, threatening to destroy her vacation. She figured it was worth a try. These days, regular visits are part of her survival strategy. Long plagued by headaches, pain, infections and fibromyalgia, she was a veteran of the search for relief "I went to I can't even ...
Acupuncture eases pain (Deseret Morning News)
08/24/2008
Acupuncture eases pain (Deseret Morning News)
Janine Ottley's first visit to an acupuncturist was an act of desperation. She was on a cruise to Mexico when a killer headache struck, threatening to destroy her vacation. She figured it was worth a try. These days, regular visits are part of her survival strategy. Long plagued by headaches, pain, infections and fibromyalgia, she was a veteran of the search for relief "I went to I can't even ...
Acupuncture eases pain (Deseret Morning News)
08/27/2008
Jade Leaves Tea House offers exotic refuge on Guadalupe (Austin American-Statesman)
When you step inside Jade Leaves Tea House on Guadalupe Street, you are instantly transported to an exotic refuge. Visitors are greeted by a clay teapot (from YiXing, a region of China known for its pots) that's about 4 feet high and 5 feet wide.
Jade Leaves Tea House offers exotic refuge on Guadalupe (Austin American-Statesman)
08/27/2008
Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 17:15 EST (Rolling Good Times)
When I first arrived in Barcelona 5 years ago I was mesmerized. I made the decision to go based on a flip of a Japanese coin and I feel like I hit the jackpot. It isn't hard to see why people talk highly of Barcelona from it's architecture, art, cuisine, beaches and it's lifestyle.
Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 17:15 EST (Rolling Good Times)
08/24/2008
Acupuncture eases pain (Deseret Morning News)
Janine Ottley's first visit to an acupuncturist was an act of desperation. She was on a cruise to Mexico when a killer headache struck, threatening to destroy her vacation. She figured it was worth a try. These days, regular visits are part of her survival strategy. Long plagued by headaches, pain, infections and fibromyalgia, she was a veteran of the search for relief "I went to I can't even ...
Acupuncture eases pain (Deseret Morning News)
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