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Why Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine?

Complementary Therapies are not immediately thought of, mostly because they’re not commonplace.

Chinese Medicine has been around for a very long time, for thousands of years, and is used today in Chinese Hospitals alongside Western Medicine.

It’s one of the oldest and most comprehensive ways of diagnosing and improving one’s Health. Acupuncture is the world’s largest Drug Free therapy, offering treatments for a wide rage of disorders.
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Chinese Medicine describes health from a different angle, using different words to say the same thing as Western medicine. It’s more lyrical, more like singing than speaking.

Chinese Medicine may talk of Digestive Fire. In Western Medicine converting Food into Energy for the Body/Mind is described by “Oxidation”- the addition of Oxygen to molecules, producing a molecular “Fire”.

Chinese Medicine discovered long ago that the body has many pathways and many connections. The major pathways are called Meridians, paths through which energies flow. In fact, some of the pathways are very similar to the arteries, veins, nerves that cross our bodies. Thousands of years of observations have formed a rather large body of knowledge, with a deep understanding of the complex interactions of the Body and Mind.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine it is stated that when the Body/Mind is in Balance, the Qi – or Life Force- runs freely through the Meridians. There are many types of Qi, and under close observation, correlate well with western terms. For instance Wei Qi has many similar functions to the Immune system.

How does Acupuncture work?

Acupuncture is the insertion of disposable, ultra-fine needles, into key points on the Meridians of the body. This aims to balance systems which can be impeded, too weak or stagnating.

Does it Hurt?

Acupuncture needles are a lot thinner than medical needles, so they are hardly felt.

Most often people don’t even know when the needle has been inserted, including people with needle phobia. Often it’s the idea more so than the needle. Some points may be more sensitive than others, I always advise if this is the case.

How many sessions are needed?

It depends! Usually the longer or the more chronic the issue is, it may take a bit longer to resolve. Some only need one or two treatments. Very generally speaking 5 treatments is about average. I always ask myself questions in deciding the course of a Treatment Program:

What treatment suits this person best? Do they need Acupuncture only, herbs, or nutritional advice? Do they need to be referred?

Have they been to a GP? (I advise people to go to a GP with urgent or chronic problems first)

Acupuncture can be of great benefit to help regain better Health, as an adjunct to Western Medicine. It is also wonderfully relaxing!

Side Effects and Safety

Acupuncture is on of the safest treatments modalities available, when performed by a professionally recognised practitioner.

Along with the therapeutic benefit, most people find the treatment one of the most relaxing things they have experienced.

Acupuncture is one of the few recognised Complementary therapies, and as such, you can claim treatments partially back from all major insurance companies (depending on your plan, and as long as your Acupuncturist is professionally recognised and registered.)

What can be treated with Acupuncture?

Acupuncture treats much more than just Musculo-Skeletal issues, it can treat the following (recognised by the World Health Organisation):

(However, more conditions can actually be treated- always feel free to enquire!)

(TCM actually offers an even more complete range, these are just the researched conditions)

The World Health Organization in it’s global and independent role has
evaluated the effectiveness of many treatments be they Western or Oriental
Medicine based.


In it’s study of approved acupuncture trials carried out over the last 3 decades, “Acupuncture was proven through controlled trials to be an effective treatment” for a wide variety of conditions.


Diseases and disorders that can be treated with acupuncture



The diseases or disorders for which acupuncture therapy has been tested
in controlled clinical trials reported in the recent literature can be
classified into four categories as shown below.


1. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been
proved-through controlled trials-to be an effective treatment:



Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Allergic rhinitis
(including hay fever)
Biliary colic
Depression (including depressive
neurosis and depression following stroke)
Dysentery, acute
bacillary
Dysmenorrhoea, primary
Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer,
acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
Facial pain (including
craniomandibular disorders)
Headache
Hypertension,
essential
Hypotension, primary
Induction of labour
Knee
pain
Leukopenia
Low back pain
Malposition of fetus, correction
of
Morning sickness
Nausea and vomiting
Neck pain
Pain in dentistry
(including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
Periarthritis of
shoulder
Postoperative pain
Renal colic
Rheumatoid
arthritis
Sciatica
Sprain
Stroke
Tennis elbow



2. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of
acupuncture has been shown but for which further proof is needed:



Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal
spasm)
Acne vulgaris
Alcohol dependence and detoxification
Bell’s
palsy
Bronchial asthma
Cancer pain
Cardiac neurosis
Cholecystitis,
chronic, with acute exacerbation
Cholelithiasis
Competition stress
syndrome
Craniocerebral injury, closed
Diabetes mellitus,
non-insulin-dependent
Earache
Epidemic haemorrhagic fever
Epistaxis,
simple (without generalized or local disease)
Eye pain due to subconjunctival
injection
Female infertility
Facial spasm
Female urethral
syndrome
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Gastrokinetic disturbance
Gouty
arthritis
Hepatitis B virus carrier status
Herpes zoster (human (alpha)
herpesvirus 3)
Hyperlipaemia
Hypo-ovarianism
Insomnia
Labour
pain
Lactation, deficiency
Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic
Ménière
disease
Neuralgia, post-herpetic
Neurodermatitis
Obesity
Opium,
cocaine and heroin dependence
Osteoarthritis
Pain due to endoscopic
examination
Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans
Polycystic ovary syndrome
(Stein-Leventhal syndrome)
Postextubation in children
Postoperative
convalescence
Premenstrual syndrome
Prostatitis,
chronic
Pruritus
Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome
Raynaud
syndrome, primary
Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection
Reflex
sympathetic dystrophy
Retention of urine,
traumatic
Schizophrenia
Sialism, drug-induced
Sjögren syndrome
Sore
throat (including tonsillitis)
Spine pain, acute
Stiff
neck
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
Tietze syndrome
Tobacco
dependence
Tourette syndrome
Ulcerative colitis,
chronic
Urolithiasis
Vascular dementia
Whooping cough
(pertussis)




 Above is a list of conditions that the WHO (World Health Organization) recommend to

React Positively to Acupuncture Treatments. 








 

 

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