You Asked: I suffer from bad migraines with aura and anxiety. My doctor advised me to try acupuncture to relieve the pain. For what aliments the doctor would consider acupuncture and does it have a long lasting effect? PAPA Answers: Acupuncture is the stimulation of specific acupoints along the skin of the body involving various methods such as the application of heat, pressure, or laser or penetration of thin needles. Specific acupuncture points corrects imbalances in the flow of qi through channels known as meridians. Acupuncture aims to treat a range of conditions, though is most commonly used for pain relief. Acupuncture is supposed to work through mechanisms that are inconsistent with what we know about physiology and anatomy today. But because people have reported benefits from them, attempts have been made to see if these methods work anyway, and do so beyond the placebo. It turns out, that acupuncture cant do anything that a placebo cant do. So you have a system that looks like placebo and works like placebo. In short science tells you that acupuncture does not have effects of its own.Many diseases waxes and wanes, so if an acupuncturist says it can take some time to work he will be correct in many instances, but not because of the acupuncture. Part of the effect some people experience from getting acupuncture is attributable to the placebo effect. But according to the traditions it does have a cumulative effect. As the qi (energy) channels start to flow more freely each time it allows the body to heal itself, and symptoms ease or disappear. And over time, the treatments are needed less and less. We dont know of an ailment that they are unable to treat or mitigate, even terminal cancer can be eased a bit.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 06:16:49 +0000
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