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Acupuncture relieves pain, improves circulation, and boosts immunity.  Acupuncture relieves stress and anxiety.  It is a safe, painless and effective way to treat a wide variety of medical problems.

Acupuncture restores health naturally by stimulating your body’s own recuperative power. By stimulating acupuncture points, your body improves the regulation between the brain and body.  This allows the body to relieve pain, respond to inflammation, and improve circulation.  

Today’s Science Shows Acupuncture Can Also Be Used Effectively In:

• Pain Relief From Muscular Pain- Skeletal Pain -Nerve Pain

• Adverse Reactions To Radiation And Chemotherapy

• Allergies

• Infertility

• Rheumatoid Arthritis

Acupuncture is recognized in the use for a wide variety of ailments, such as:

• Persistent Painful Conditions Including Low Back Pain And Pain Related To Arthritis

• Headaches

• Post Operative Pain

• Adverse Reactions To Chemotherapy And Radiation Therapy

• Addiction

• Hot Flashes And Other Menopausal Symptoms

It can be used as a stand alone treatment, or alongside more traditional medical treatments like prescription medication or surgery.

What Is Acupuncture?

Originally published by Harvard Health.

Acupuncture is a technique that involves inserting very thin metal needles into the skin at precise points on the body to clear energy channels, with the aim of restoring and maintaining health. The spots of insertion are picked based on a complex network of lines of energy, termed meridians. Meridians are thought to encircle the body like global lines of longitude and latitude.

Acupuncture is a mainstay of traditional Chinese medicine, which has been practiced for thousands of years. The Chinese healing tradition sees the body as a delicate balance of yin and yang. These are two opposing, but inseparable forces. According to traditional Chinese medicine, disease occurs when the forces of yin and yang are out of balance.

Imbalance, it is believed, blocks the flow of qi, a vital energy that regulates spiritual, emotional, mental and physical balance, along meridians. By inserting needles at specific points on the body that connect with these meridians, acupuncture is believed to unblock the flow of qi, restoring health to the body and mind.

Western medicine explains acupuncture’s effects within a different framework. Some Western scientists believe that acupuncture stimulates the central nervous system, signaling the body to release various substances including endorphins, immune system cells, opioids, neurotransmitters, and neurohormones. These may help control pain, change how the body experiences pain, and promote physical and emotional well-being. Some research also indicates that acupuncture influences involuntary central nervous functions, such as blood pressure, blood flow, and body temperature regulation.

Acupuncture Does Not Hurt

No, believe it or not Acupuncture does not hurt.   Acupuncture needles are hair-thin, which makes insertion painless. Once all the acupuncture needles are in place, you will then feel a unique sensation. Many have described the sensation as tingling, heaviness, a dull ache, warmth or nothing at all.   Each person’s experience is different. Many people become so relaxed during the treatment that they fall asleep. When you fall asleep during an acupuncture treatment.