Aspiring Spirit

Acupuncture is being increasingly seen as an accurate medical science and not as quackery imported from the Orient. Acupuncture has been accorded a legal status in the United States. Not just anyone can become an acupuncture practitioner and open an acupuncture clinic. Professional training is available and a license is required for becoming an acupuncture practitioner. Many conditions with symptoms of acute pain like tennis elbow, cervical spondylitis, arthritis etc. can be treated successfully through acupuncture.

Acupuncture is a type of therapy for pain relief. It can be used to heal many different physical and emotional ailments. Linked with traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture is the placement of small, metallic needles in specific muscles or nerves. Practitioners believe that these needles change the transmission of pain in the nervous system.

Modern allopathy assumes different causes for disease than acupuncture. Acupuncture is based on the idea that health problems are causes by imbalances in fundamental body energies of Chi. An acpuncture practitioner will not only try to remove symptoms, such as pain, but aims to go further and treat the underlying Chi energy balance represented by the opposing forces of Yin and Yan. For example, a Yin deficiency in the liver is said to cause a lack of moisture in tendons responsible for pain free movement. Therefore, not only would pain that hinders mobility be treated, but the liver Yin imbalance as well.

Acupuncture involves using thin needles to pierce the skin and apply pressure to the filters located in the muscles which are in turn connected to the spinal chord. These filters govern the symptoms of pain. To cure an ailment, multiple visits to the acupuncture therapist are needed. The number of such sessions differs from ailment to ailment, and also from patient to patient.

Even if a patient feels cured after attending acupuncture therapy only a few times, it is still important to continue the treatment for a minimum of one year. Acupuncture therapy is a natural and harmless treatment for tennis elbow. It also has no side effects. As an added bonus, some people who have undergone acupuncture feel more energized than before the treatments, in additional to being relieved of their pain.

There are a number of ailments for which modern medicine doesn’t have complete cures. Such ailments are often easily treated through acupuncture. Acupuncture also figures in the list of alternative treatments for the common cold, and in the list of natural remidies for influenza. Next time, you suffer from any of these ailments or pain, won’t you consider going to the acupuncture practitioner whose clinic is a few blocks away?

The basis of acupuncture is the understanding that health problems are caused by imbalances in Chi body energies. Imbalances are corrected by using thin needles at specific points on muscles. These needles offset the pain caused by the energy imbalance while avoiding damage to the muscle. Acupuncture has been shown to cure many illnesses that confound modern medicine. Because of its effectiveness and increasing acceptance as medical science, acupuncture has been accorded legal status in the United States. Acupuncture patients can rest assured that a licensed acupuncture practitioner has undergone extensive professional training. Those looking for alternative treatments for the common cold or natural remidies for influenza should consider acupuncture.

- Keith Ferris