Acupuncture Chinese Medicine

Acupuncture is one of the oldest and most commonly used medical practices in the world. Its popularity and use has been growing exponentially in the United States ever since a reporter for the New York Times, traveling with President Nixon during his historic visit to China in 1971, had acupuncture anesthesia during emergency surgery.Acupuncture and Chinese medicine involve much more than the insertion of hair-thin needles into specific points of the body to bring about healing. This medicine also includes diet & nutritional counseling, herbal prescriptions and exercise, when used properly. This is because acupuncture as well as Traditional Chinese Medicine is about living in harmony and balance.Even if you have never been to an acupuncturist yourself, you probably know at least one person who has. While the majority of people in the U.S. go for the relief of some sort of pain, the conditions which can be treated are as vast as we are different. This is because Traditional Chinese Medicine evaluates and differentiates disease on a very different, although complementary, system than Western medicine.In 1979, the World Health Organization (WHO) - the health branch of the United Nations - found acupuncture to be effective in the treatment of over 40 common problems. Some of the more common include:

Addictions (Alcohol, Drugs, Tobacco)	Anxiety
Arthritis	Asthma
Bronchitis	Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue	Colitis
Common Cold (Yes, a cure does exist!)	Constipation
Dental Pain	Depression, including SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
Diarrhea	Digestive Trouble
Dizziness	Dysentery
Emotional Problems	Eye Problems
Facial Palsy / Tics	Fatigue
Fertility	Fibromyalgia
Frozen Shoulder	Headache / Migraine
Hiccups	Incontinence
Indigestion	Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Low Back Pain	Menopause
Menstrual Irregularities	Nausea
Numbness or Tingling	Osteoarthritis
Pain	Pre-Menstrual Syndrome (PMS)
Pneumonia	Rhinitis
Sciatica	Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Shoulder Pain	Sinusitis
Sleep Disturbances	Sore Throat
Stress	Tennis Elbow
Tonsillitis	Trigeminal Neuralgia
Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)	Vomiting

The National Institute of Health (NIH) conducted its own extensive research in November, 1997, primarily focusing on the biological basis and efficacy of acupuncture. While they concur with WHO on many conditions and additionally recommend acupuncture as an effective treatment for asthma, the 1997 NIH panel concluded: “There is sufficient evidence of acupuncture’s value to expand its use into conventional medicine and to encourage further studies of its physiology and clinical value.” NIH, 1997.

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