Acupuncture is one of the world’s oldest thriving healing professions. It is used to treat illness, recovery from injury, and prevent disease. The Western focus bio-mechanics of the human body are served well through the additional assessment and treatment protocol that acupuncture provides. The treatment in the quality of interaction between the body, mind and emotions is an example. Specific concentration of points along channels of life sustaining energy in our anatomy correspond to systems and regions of the body. They may be activated through gentle, medically sterilized ultra thin needles, heat, laser, digits, or other means.
These points are in relationship to a flow of a finer metabolic energy the Chinese call Qi –‘chee’ concentrated along channels networking throughout the body. The acupuncture meridians [think lighter expression of metabolic energy channeling throughout the body], like the mind are invisible to our present development of technology and just as real. Mapped throughout the body over millenniums of time such points and channels serves to regulate the healing powers of homeostasis and balance the flow of our finer metabolic energy that underlines our physiological process. The results are a positive effect on our health and the reduction of pain.
More prevalent in other nations than in the U.S., Chinese acupuncture is a major provider of health care in the world community recognized by the World Health Organization. It is an excellent compliment to western medicine. Adverse effects are substantially lower than common pharmaceutical and technological medicines used for the same conditions. Unlike some drug oriented medicine it does not foster a dependency.