Acupuncture: List of Treatments

06/12/2012

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What are the benefits of acupuncture? What are the different treatments we can get from it?

Traditional Chinese medicine is efficient and effective for a lot of circumstances, while proof indicates it may have an efficient healing value for many more.

Here is a list of Treatments from Acupuncture

 I. PAIN

•           Pain after surgery

•           Painful prominent scars

 II. SKIN 

•           Wrinkles or bagginess of face and eye lids

•           Acne, pimples, blackhead,

•           Psoriasis

•           Boils and Eczema

•           Pigmentosa

•           Excessive Perspiration

•           Itchiness

•           And other various skin diseases and disorders

 III. ALLERGIES 

•           Hay Fever and Rhinitis

•           Sinusitis

•           Asthma

•           And other types of allergies

 IV. INFECTION 

•           Bronchitis and Emphysema

•           Recurring tonsillitis

•           Mouth ulcers

 V. BLADDER 

•           Cystitis

•           Early prostate enlargement

•           Non-specific urethritis

•           Bedwetting

 VI. BOWEL

•           Collitis

•           Gastric and stomach ulcer

•           Stomach inflammations

•           Constipation

•           Diarrhea

 VII. VASCULAR 

•           Aching varicose veins

•           Cramps and Restless legs

•           Intermittent claudication or pain when walking and running

•           Internal and External Hemorrhoids

 VIII.   NEUROLOGIC – The Nervous System 

•           Migraine and headaches

•           Trigeminal neuralgia and other face pains

•           Bell's palsy or paralysis on the face

•           Anxiety and depression

•           Fears and claustrophobia

•           Meniere's disorder

•           Post herpetic or Shingles

•           Neuralgia

•           Carpal tunnel syndrome

•           Sciatica

•           Travel sickness or dizziness

•           Tiredness

•           Phantom limb pain

•           Cerebral thrombosis or Paralysis of leg or arm after a stroke

 IX. MUSCULO – The Skeletal System 

•           Neck and lower back pains

•           Frozen shoulder

•           Tennis elbow

•           Painful joints of rheumatoid

•           Arthritis and Osteoarthritis of knees, hips and other joints

•           Heel spurs

•           Acute sports injuries

•           Wound healing

 X. GYNECOLOGICAL 

•           Menstruation and pelvic pains

•           Flushes especially menopausal

•           Painful nodular breasts

•           Endometriosis Preparation for childbirth

•           Irregular or excessive menstruation

•           Vaginal Pain

 XI. A LOT MORE 

•           Persisting weakness after a severe illness or operation

•           Smoking

•           Tired eyes

•           Pterygium Retinitis

•           High blood pressure

•           tinnitus

•           palpitations

•           obesity

•           impotence

•           infertility

•           other illnesses

Knowing the list of treatment can be very helpful in identifying what this type medicine can do for you. It really helps a lot with reducing pain and varieties of diseases.


By Brian Musial


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Good Bye Acne,  Hello Acupuncture

05/31/2012

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What is Acne?

Acne and pimples are a common skin condition, especially for women and young adolescence. Women get to have pimples before they start their monthly period, during their menopausal stage and others get it from too much use of aesthetics. While in teen adolescence, they start having pimples because of the different changes in their hormonal levels. 

Disadvantages of Acne

One of the disadvantages of Acne in our daily lives is that it breaks down our self confidence as an individual. When left untreated, it causes personal and emotional disturbances and therefore affects our social life. It destroys a part of our ambitions like getting to know different people, being active in different occasions and getting to parties we would like to attend. Physical impression would then be an obstacle and causes you to have a different notion of yourself when you get to know new people. Acne is a big problem to the society and only those who are experiencing these types of skin problems really know what it means.

How is Acupuncture and Acne related?

Acupuncture is also available and offered for the treatment of acne and other skin problems with no difficulties. It provides therapy and allows the removal of unwanted skin disorders. Acupuncture can definitely make your skin younger. It also helps with wrinkles and other sorts of blemishes. This procedure helps in stimulating your skin cells to give new collagen fibers under your wrinkles by filling them in. Acupuncture can treat all types of acne, pimples, cysts, blackheads and whiteheads. The treatment gives a lot of advantages as it stops new pimples from forming back to its position and it helps in the healing process. It also prevents scarring and minimizes the embarrassment of having skin disorders.

Is The Procedure Painful While Treating Acne?

You should know that the acupuncture needles used for treatment and therapy are a lot more different than that of the conventional and injection needles used by doctors in hospitals. The acupuncture needles are specially designed for the pressure points of our skin which includes our skin cell tissues and epidermis. As long as you had a consultation and obeyed your practitioner’s advice then everything will turn out perfectly fine. You shouldn’t worry for there wouldn’t be any pain in treating your acne with acupuncture. You will notice the contact and the touch of the pin to your skin while the acupuncturist does the procedure but it won’t cause you any discomfort at all.

Acupuncture helps you boost back your self confidence. Try it now!

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