Acupuncture

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is an alternative medicine that treats patients by the practice of inserting thin needles into specific body points to improve health and well-being.  Its proponents variously claim that it relieves pain, treats infertility, treats disease, prevents disease, or promotes general health. The earliest written record of acupuncture is found in the Huangdi Neijing, dated approximately more than 2,000 years ago. It plays an essential role in Chinese history.

In ancient times, people was accidentally crashed by some sharp or hard objects to a part of the body, such as stones, thorns, and it will reduce the of pain. The ancients began to consciously use some sharp stones to stab some parts of the body or artificially punctured so that the bleeding body to relieve pain. At that time, people have mastered the digging and grinding skills, and they could also produce some of the stone that were more sophisticated and suitable for piercing the body to treat. This kind of stones was the oldest medical tools, which is called stone needle.

The most popular treatment for acupuncture is moxibustion, which uses cones or sticks of plants to burn the points of the body, or let the point expose to smoke. This kind of plants can be willow, mulberry or moxa, but people use moxa usually. The character of acupuncture is that it is not rely on medication, but using a needle into the certain parts of the body to stab trough nerve and cause reactions, to achieve the purpose of medical treatment. When it is in clinical practice, mainly on the basis of traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods to diagnose the reason，identify the key of the disease and the nature of the disease. Then make an appropriate prescription for treatment and achieve the purpose of disease control by smoothing the meridians and collaterals, Promoting the circulation of qi and blood, and regulating the yin and yang in the internal organs. Human body consists of cells. Whether a human lives healthily, the most fundamental is normal cell metabolism. A human is sick because the physiological function of cells change, and acupuncture can work because it excites the points of the body to change the the qi of the nerve in order to restore normal physiological function. 

Acupuncture has many other benefits. For example, you can correct the abnormal appetite by regulating the nervous system, can inhibit gastric acid hyper secretion, achieve the purpose by not be fatigue and hunger any more. After acupuncture, slowing gastric emptying, the stomach is not empty, so there will be the feeling of satiety. Second, currently there are many ways to lose weight, but acupuncture has a unique affection, and it is safe and convenient. In addition, losing weight by acupuncture will not rebound. Today, acupuncture has been paid attention by many scholars; it is the most effective method for people to lose weight healthily.

Since acupuncture has unique advantages and broad indications, and because it is not only has a rapid and remarkable effect, a simple operation method, but also economic and health care costs, and very few side effects，in the Tang Dynasty, Chinese acupuncture had been spread to Japan, Korea, India, Arabia and other countries and regions, and it has been created to some acupuncture with exotic features. In conclusion, acupuncture has spread to more than 140 countries and regions in the world so far, and it plays an essential role on protecting the life and health of people all over the world.

When not delivered properly, acupuncture can cause serious adverse effects, including infections and punctured organs. Broken needle refers to the broken needle in the human body. In order to prevent the broken needle, it should be carefully checked before start. Check the quality of the needles; do not be too fast, too strong when using a needle; ask the patient not to arbitrarily change position like talking to people or answering a phone call; do not prick the whole needle into the body, remain a part of the needle in order to take the needle out; if the needle is completely thorough deep subcutaneous or intramuscular, the patient should be sent to emergency treatment quickly.

In conclusion, acupuncture typically incorporates traditional Chinese medicine as an integral part of its practice and theory, and it is now influencing more and more people all over the world.