A Quick Fact About Acupuncture
An Interesting Spiritual Healing Fact
History of acupuncture
Acupuncture is an old medicine used to promote good health and maintain a healthy body. It is carried out by inserting hundreds of tiny needles into special acupuncture points in the body where "qi". Qi is reported as being the body's natural energy source, travels through channels around the body.
Acupuncture can be classed as the oldest, known medication still used today. Besides believing that acupuncture is a Chinese medicine, what else do we know?
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Treating the Side Effects of Chemotherapy with Acupunture
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Having to deal with cancer treatment can be a difficult process. There is not only the emotional stress of dealing with an illness that can be very serious but there is the difficulty of the body fighting not only the disease, but often the treatment as well. Acupuncture is known to have some very good success with the pain, nausea and swelling of the limbs that is associated with cancer and cancer treatments.
Often the answer to cancer is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is a mix of incredibly potent medications that are designed to poison the tumors and hopefully shrink or destroy them. The problem is that this same chemotherapy, which runs through the blood trying to reach all the cancer cells that it can get to, causes nausea and often vomiting that can be incapacitating to the person fighting cancer. There are few things that can ease this horrible feeling, doctors often give more drugs to counter it but they are now learning that one thing that does do a good job is acupuncture. The very act of acupuncture is believed to release endorphins, the body’s natural pain reliever which goes for in also relieving the stress of dealing with the illness. This in itself is believed by acupuncturists and western health care providers to help the patient fight their disease and the side effects from treatments.
Researchers have been looking into the results of acupuncture on chemotherapy patients and found that there are two ways to help. The standard acupuncture treatments lower the number of nauseous and vomiting episodes by throaty percent in an average day. But acupuncture with a little extra can lower the periods of this kind of discomfort by sixty percent. The little extra in this case is the slightest electric charge sent though two of the needles. This process is known as electroacupuncture. Those who were given a regular routine of medication to help fared the worst.
The teachings of Chinese medicine say that acupuncture stops the inactivity in the body that allows the tumor to grow. It replenishes the balance in the body and helps it to heal. The only caution with acupuncture and cancer patients is the recommendation of health care providers to avoid the insertion of needles in the tumor region. There is concern about inadvertently spread the tumor by scattering the cancerous cells if the needles should come too close. If the points used are at a distance there is no fear of this actually happening.
So, only now is acupuncture of any kind being recommended for use with this problem. Most times it is still being suggested by health care providers as an answer to the problem only if nothing else will work. Many people who have used it successfully say that perhaps the health care providers should have more faith in this procedure and not wait until it is that last alternative. That is would be better if it were suggested as a treatment right away since it is such a successful one.
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Discoveries in Acupuncture
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05/14/2012
Acupuncture May Help Ease Symptoms of COPD
MONDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), acupuncture may help relieve shortness of breath during activity, Japanese researchers suggest.
Acupuncture May Help Ease Symptoms of COPD
05/15/2012
Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Three months of acupuncture improved breathing problems in people with chronic lung disease, in a new study from Japan. According to one researcher, the benefits seen with the alternative treatment were on par with, or better than, what's been shown for conventional drugs and exercises used to treat the disease. But the study was small, he added, and more research ...
Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study
05/14/2012
Acupuncture May Help Ease Symptoms of COPD
MONDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), acupuncture may help relieve shortness of breath during activity, Japanese researchers suggest.
Acupuncture May Help Ease Symptoms of COPD
05/15/2012
Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Three months of acupuncture improved breathing problems in people with chronic lung disease, in a new study from Japan. According to one researcher, the benefits seen with the alternative treatment were on par with, or better than, what's been shown for conventional drugs and exercises used to treat the disease. But the study was small, he added, and more research ...
Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study
05/15/2012
More Americans using acupuncture for common ailments
Americans are using acupuncture more to provide relief from pain and common ailments, according to a new survey
More Americans using acupuncture for common ailments
05/14/2012
Acupuncture appears linked with improvement in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
According to a small clinical trial reported by investigators from Japan, acupuncture appears to be associated with improvement of dyspnea (labored breathing) on exertion, in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Acupuncture appears linked with improvement in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
05/14/2012
Acupuncture May Help Ease Symptoms of COPD
MONDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), acupuncture may help relieve shortness of breath during activity, Japanese researchers suggest.
Acupuncture May Help Ease Symptoms of COPD
05/15/2012
Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Three months of acupuncture improved breathing problems in people with chronic lung disease, in a new study from Japan. According to one researcher, the benefits seen with the alternative treatment were on par with, or better than, what's been shown for conventional drugs and exercises used to treat the disease. But the study was small, he added, and more research ...
Acupuncture may help some people with COPD: study
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