Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese procedure in which points on the body are stimulated using a number of very fine needles.
Here are conditions and symptoms that may benefit from acupuncture, courtesy of the U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine:
• Nausea triggered by chemotherapy or surgery
• Menstrual cramps, low back pain or headaches
• Fibromyalgia or osteoarthritis
• Asthma
• Carpal tunnel syndrome or tennis elbow
• Stroke rehabilitation
• Addiction
The above information was copied from HealthDay News on Sunday, September 23, 2007.
For thousands of years, acupuncture has been based on the premise that specific points along the meridians correspond to specific organs (such as heart, lung, liver, kidney and stomach…) and functions (such as motor control, emotion change and hormones rebalance…). For example, inserting a needle at a point inside the forearm known as P6 is intended to treat nausea, needling Liv3, which is an acupuncture point on the top of foot, is meant to help with motor function.
Today most Western researchers agree that acupuncture’s stimulation of endorphins plays a big part in explaining how the practice works. Some medical acupuncture researchers maintain that this can’t be the whole picture. They remain unclear as to how acupuncture is able to provide long-lasting pain relief. But acupuncture has become very popular in recent years among conventional doctors in the West, some of whom now use it to treat symptoms of disease as if it were just another part of Western medicine.
Our regular treatment procedures are as follows: First the Chinese meridians massage would be performed for 30 minutes to allow the blood and energy to flow more effectively, relax the muscles, improve circulation and then the body is prepared for acupuncture. Second, acupuncture would be done by placing the needles in the specific acupuncture points and pain points. We believe that Chinese meridians massage would reach a wider surface area and acupuncture would reach the deeper specific points. If both methods are combined, the effective results are much greater than just one single treatment.
For more information, please call Dr. Lu of Ping’s Acupuncture & Herb Center at 661-513-9265.