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Acupuncture For Detoxification
By Juliet Cohen
Treating Autoimmune Disease with Acupuncture
Over 50 million Americans suffer from autoimmune disease; an autoimmune disease occurs when the body?s immune system attacks healthy tissue.
Due to the complexity of treating autoimmune disorders, integrative medicine solutions including acupuncture and Oriental medicine have received much attention as successful therapies in their treatment. Acupuncture is specifically noted for its use in pain relief, regulating the immune system, managing symptoms and improving quality of life. ]]>
Army To Include AOM for Pain Treatment
[from Acupuncture Today, July 21, 2010]
The statistics are sobering, to say the least. According to leading pain specialists in the Veterans Administration, nine in 10 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans return home with some form of pain, and 60 percent have significant pain.1 Now, a recent announcement by top Army officials may help address this situation and provide our modern military forces with ancient forms of healing to help with pain relief.
On June 25, the Army Surgeon General, Lt. Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker, announced the release of a report by the Pain Management Task Force, which has 109 recommendations for changes in the way Army personnel are treated for pain. Among those recommendations are the inclusion of complementary and alternative treatments such as acupuncture, meditation, biofeedback and yoga. ]]>
Is Cosmetic Acupuncture Effective for Aging?
A major tenet of acupuncture is that to reflect beauty on the outside, you must be healthy on the inside. Cosmetic acupuncture is a unique method of facial rejuvenation based on this philosophy. And its popularity is growing among women in America.]]>
Study: Acupuncture Improves Fertility in Men, Too
Acupuncture Today
Previous research has shown that acupuncture can improve fertility levels in women. Fewer studies on male infertility have been conducted, although evidence suggests that acupuncture can have an effect on sperm production and quality, without causing any changes in behavior or sexual desire. ]]>
Study Supports Acupuncture Effects In Pain Control
The scientific validity of traditional Chinese medicine for pain treatment of pain received a nod of support in the May issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).
Dr. Philip Lang and colleagues of the University of Munich used quantitative sensory testing to identify changes in pain sensitivity with acupuncture in 24 healthy volunteers. After applying acupuncture to the leg, the researchers found that pain thresholds increased by up to 50 percent. Effects were noted in both the treated leg and the untreated (contralateral) leg. ]]>
Acupuncture has been around for thousands of years. Acupuncture is widely used as an adjunctive treatment for addiction to drugs and/or alcohol. Acupuncture is commonly considered by Western medical practitioners to have little more credibility than many other 'complementary therapies' and is often dismissed by them along with 'alternative' treatments with little or no history or proven efficacy. Acupuncture is an extremely old Chinese mode of treatment now practised all across the globe. It focuses on restricting the flow of energy in the body. Acupuncture controlled experimental conditions.
People who received detoxification handling were two times more possible to remain in reclamation therapy than folk who did not obtain handling. More than 70 % of people. treated with successfully completed detoxification, compared with simply 501043f hosiery who did not obtain the handling. Acupuncture can too greatly cut the fall away pace among alcoholics. In cocaine addicts, appears to get an especially powerful impact on the craving. For those detoxifying from alcohol, the success pace was 90. Recidivism of alcohol and drug addicts decreased from 20-25 % 5 % for patients. There are no substitutes for cocaine and hash addicts to assist them halt using drugs. Acupuncture is the simply unconventional and most folk receive it, since they look that still if it doesn't do any better, it yet can't damage. The handling of hash and cocaine addicts with is mainly focused on re-establishing a passionate balance. Moxibustion involves stimulating points with warmth. It introduces vitality into the system either by heating the needle or the rind with a moxa pin or by burning moxa immediately on the rind. Electrostimulation enhances the effect of the needles and can be used to either stimulate or sedate.
Different frequencies develop distinct physical responses in the system. A thick hash smoker is inclined to display such symptoms as uneasiness, depression and craving for rather some moment. Experience has shown that this class of addicts frequently prematurely fall out of the clinical as easily as the outpatient handling programmes. Acupuncture is efficient in reducing climate changes, irritability, insomnia and tiredness. All clients felt their acupuncturist had assessed their needs extremely accurately. |
