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About Acupuncture
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Introduction
The term "acupuncture" describes a family of procedures involving
the stimulation of anatomical points on the body using a variety of techniques.
The acupuncture technique that has been most often studied scientifically
involves penetrating the skin with thin, solid, metallic needles that are
manipulated by the hands or by electrical stimulation.
Practiced in China and other Asian countries for thousands of years,
acupuncture is one of the key components of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
In TCM, the body is seen as a delicate balance of two opposing and
inseparable forces: yin and yang. Yin represents cold, slow, or passive
aspects of the person, while yang represents hot, excited, or active aspects.
A major theory is that health is achieved through balancing yin and yang
and disease is caused by an imbalance leading to a blockage in the flow of qi.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the vital energy or life force proposed
to regulate a person's spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical health
and to be influenced by the opposing forces of yin and yang (vital energy)
along pathways known as meridians. Qi can be unblocked, according to TCM,
by using acupuncture at certain points on the body that connect with these
meridians. Sources vary on the number of meridians, with numbers ranging
from 14 to 20. One commonly cited source describes meridians as 14 main
channels "connecting the body in a weblike interconnecting matrix" of
at least 2,000 acupuncture points.
Acupuncture became better known in the United States in 1971,
when New York Times reporter James Reston wrote about how doctors
in China used needles to ease his pain after surgery. American practices
of acupuncture incorporate medical traditions from China, Japan,
Korea, and other countries.
WHO Acupuncture and the NIH Consensus Study
In 2003, the World Health Organization published a landmark study,
titled "Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled
Clinical Trials." Acupuncture has been proven (through controlled trials)
to be an effective treatment for the following diseases, symptoms, or conditions:
- Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy
- Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)
- Biliary colic
- Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)
- Dysentery, acute bacillary
- Dysmenorrhoea, primary
- Epigastralgia, acute (in peptic ulcer, acute and chronic gastritis, and gastrospasm)
- Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)
- Headache
- Hypertension, essential
- Hypotension, primary
- Induction of labour
- Knee pain
- Leukopenia
- Low back pain
- Malposition of fetus, correction of
- Morning sickness
- Nausea and vomiting
- Neck pain
- Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)
- Periarthritis of shoulder
- Postoperative pain
- Renal colic
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sciatica
- Sprain
- Stroke
- Tennis elbow
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