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Acupuncture – How Was It All Started?

Posted by admin on June 9, 2011 in Acupuncture with No Comments


Acupuncture is one of the ancient methods approached in the world for healing a person out of any disease. This system of healing is mainly followed in China. It is a customary medical practice to cure diseases with the use of acupuncture for a typical person who is born and brought up in China. It is believed that, by stimulating the particular spots in the body, acupuncture brings back the health and preserves it in the body. Having originated in ancient China, the acupuncture is spreading into the other areas of the world. In recent days, medical experts in United States are making the use of acupuncture as a substitute for English medicine.

Besides China, acupuncture has been used for healing by many Asian countries for eons. Japan and Korea are the other countries which practiced this system of treatment, next to China. Recently there are many studies conducted to know the effectiveness of the acupuncture in many hazardous conditions of the health. There are very high chances for side effects, if it is not effectively practiced by a skilled and expert professional in the field. Before undergoing acupuncture therapy, patient has to give a clear cut picture of his or her health and other systems of medical practice he used, to avoid any serious damages to his or her health.

In this procedure of treatment, some spotted areas in the body of a patient, are pricked with sterilized needles as a therapy which alleviates their ailments and produces local anesthesia. In the system of acupuncture practice, professionals of this medical practice, classify body into two parts Yin and Yang. The Yin part of the body stands for cold and the Yang corresponds to hot. These are also known as passive principle and active principle respectively. By maintaining balance in both the principles, perfect health can be sustained.

When the disparity arises in the Yin and Yang internally, then it leads to disease, as the imbalance blocks the essential energy which also known as qi in China, from flowing in the body. With the effective treatment with acupuncture techniques, the balance in the Yin and Yang can be restored. The straits, which connect the body, are called as meridians.
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The number of these meridians could be from 14 to 20. These meridians are interlinked in the like a web. These connections hold the 20000 spots of acupuncture. It was in 1971, when acupuncture became very popular in the United States.

As per the reports of National Institute of Health or NIH in 1997, it is clearly affirmed that, a good many of health professional in different fields such as, dentists, EN&T specialists, physicians, and many other specialists have extensively been practicing the techniques of acupuncture in their therapeutic treatments. Most of the patients take acupuncture therapy, to get rid of their body pains. As per the records in 2007 of National Institute of Health, more than 3 million adults and 150,000 children were given the treatment of acupuncture therapy for different health problems in 2006 in United States.

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