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Acupuncture - Your health in Your Hands
What is acupuncture?
Acupuncture is the practice of treating people using needles and the Chinese system of medicine that governs which points are used.
People have been treated for thousands of years using acupuncture. Ancient texts describe a complex but fascinating insight into how the human body works. Acupuncturists use this tried and tested theory and apply it to modern complaints.
A traditional acupuncturist views the body as a reflection of the greater world. As such, the body is in constant, dynamic interaction with the environment. Health in this system is not static, but rather the ability to adapt gracefully to all the changes and challenges that life sends ones way. Anything from environmental conditions (for example living in a damp house) to dietary choices and the emotional stresses that work/life throws up can upset this delicate balance and create illness. A healthy person can manage these changes while maintaining their health.
What does acupuncture do?
Acupuncture rebalances the body to positively affect health. The effects can be subtle, giving you a calm relaxed feeling while at the same time being able to help with real physical and emotional issues that many people experience day to day.
Treatment is aimed at the root of your condition as well as your main symptoms. This approach helps with resolving your problem and enhancing your feeling of wellbeing. You may notice other niggling problems resolve as your main health complaint improves.
Acupuncture originated in China and other far eastern cultures where it still features in mainstream healthcare, both as a stand-alone therapy and in combination with conventional western medicine. Acupuncture is now widely used and accepted all over the world. In the UK more and more people are finding out what acupuncture can do for them.
Acupuncture for...
Some people turn to acupuncture for help with a specific symptom or condition. Others choose to have treatment to help maintain good health, as a preventive measure, or simply to improve their general sense of wellbeing. Because traditional acupuncture aims to treat the whole person rather than specific symptoms in isolation, it can be effective for a range of conditions.
Remember that acupuncturists treat the person, not just the condition they have, so each patient’s treatment plan will be different. However, you can always ask your practitioner about other patients’ experiences, to give you an idea of what to expect. Many people return to acupuncture again and again because they find it so beneficial and relaxing.
There are many health complaints that acupuncture can assist with, if you are reading this chances are you have spoken to someone or read an article which has led to you seeking out a practitioner. Please call on the above number (or email) for a ‘no obligation’ chat about how acupuncture can help you.
Erik Pietzka is a full member of the British Acupuncture Council, the largest professional body of acupuncturists in the UK.
Diseases, conditions or symptoms listed by the World Health Organisation where acupuncture treatment has been shown to be of benefit:
Abdominal pain
Acne
Cancer - Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
Alcohol dependence
Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
Bell’s palsy
Biliary colic
Bronchial asthma
Cancer pain
Cholecystitis
Craniocerebral injury
Depression
Diabetes
Earache
Eye pain
Facial pain
Fibromyalgia and fasciitis
Gastrointestinal disturbance
Gout
Headache
Herpes zoster
Hyperlipaemia | Hypertension
Hypotension
IBS
Insomnia
Knee pain
Low back pain
Ménière disease
Nausea
Neck pain
Neuralgia,
Neurodermatitis
Obesity
Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence
Osteoarthritis
Pain in dentistry
Periarthritis of shoulder
Postoperative convalescence
Postoperative pain
Pruritus
Radicular pain syndrome
Raynaud syndrome | Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
Renal colic
Retention of urine
Rheumatoid arthritis
Schizophrenia
Sciatica
Sore throat (including tonsillitis)
Spine pain
Sprain
Stiff neck
Stomach ulcer
Stress symptoms
Stroke
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
Tennis elbow
Tietze syndrome
Tobacco dependence
Tourette syndrome
Ulcerative colitis
Vascular dementia
Whooping cough
Abdominal pain |
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