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Acupuncture
It
is an ancient system of healing developed over thousands of years
in China, Japan and other eastern countries. It has evolved into a
system of medicine that restores and maintains health by the insertion
of very fine needles into acupuncture points just below the surface
of the body. These points lie in specific locations on channels of
energy. Moxibustion, the warming of acupuncture points through the
use of smouldering herbs is often used as a supplement. Acupressure,
massage and dietary advice may also be part of the treatment.
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Treating
the whole person
Western medicine and Chinese medicine approach disease in fundamentally
different ways. Western medicine looks for an external cause
for a specific disease, which it isolates and controls with
drugs and surgery. Chinese medicine takes into account not only
the disease symptoms but also the constitution, age, habits,
physical and emotional traits and all other aspects of the individual
and attempts to put together an overall picture of the patient
in order to evaluate any patterns of disharmony that have arisen.
Health is a state of total harmony between spiritual, physical
and emotional aspects of the individual. Illness, on the other
hand, is a disharmony that manifests itself as certain symptoms.
The symptoms on their own are often unimportant; they are merely
part of the syndrome of harmony or disharmony, which makes up
the whole person. |
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Cause
of disease
Many things can upset the flow of qi or energy. Chinese medicine
lays great stress on the importance of emotional states such
as stress, worry, anger, fear and grief. Each of these can have
particular effect upon the energy balance of the body. A person's
dietary habits, levels of exercise, working conditions, climatic
factors are also seen to intimately affect the flow of QI.
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What
can acupuncture help?
Acupuncture can be effective for a wide variety of conditions.
The following list is just a few of the common conditions that
can benefit from acupuncture treatment.
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Muscular
aches, pains and stiffness, arthritis, sciatica - |
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PMS,
menopausal syndrome, fibroids, absence of periods, infertility
and other gynaecological conditions- |
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M.E.,
MS |
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Irritable
bowel syndrome, constipation, diarrhoea and other digestive
problems |
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Asthma,
hay-fever, frequent colds and low resistance to infection,
bronchitis and other respiratory problems |
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Headaches,
tinnitus, dizziness, trigeminal neuralgia |
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Anxiety,
depression, stress etc. |
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ONLY STERILE DISPOSABLE NEEDLES ARE USED
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