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Welcome to Acupuncture Infocenter in Holisticonline.com!

Acupuncture has been a major part of primary healthcare in China for the last 5,000 years. It is used extensively for a variety of medical purposes ranging from the prevention and treatment of disease, to relieving pain and anesthetizing patients for surgery. As in many oriental medicine practices, the emphasis of acupuncture is on prevention. In traditional Chinese medicine, the highest form of acupuncture was given to enable you to live a long, healthy life.

The earliest written account of acupuncture is found in the Nei Jing (The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine). This document is believed to be from around 200 BC and is one of the oldest comprehensive medical text book. Pien Chueh, a famous physician of the fourth century BC, used stone acupuncture needles, moxibustion and herbs to bring a prince out of a coma. The Chinese still celebrate his birthday every year on April 28th.


Acupuncture - Table of Contents

What is Acupuncture?

The Philosophy of the Dao

Yin and Yang

The Five Elements

How the Imbalance of the Elements Affect Us?

Healing Applications of Acupuncture

Channels or Meridians - The invisible Pathways of Qi

How Does Acupuncture Work?

Effects of Acupuncture

The Gate Control Theory of Pain

Electrical Theory

Clinical Trials
 

Articles and Resources of Interest
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From Health News

Acupuncture Effective for Neck Pain
Researchers from McMaster University in Canada concluded that acupuncture is moderately effective for treating neck pain. It is more effective than massage therapy and has no side effects.

Acupuncture Relieves Pain and Improves Function in Knee Osteoarthritis
Acupuncture provides pain relief and improves function for people with osteoarthritis of the knee and serves as an effective complement to standard care. This NIH funded study found that those who received acupuncture had a 40 percent decrease in pain and a nearly 40 percent improvement in function compared to baseline assessments.

In-depth Assessment Report

Acupuncture for Fibromyalgia: Technology Assessment
A detailed report assessing the usefulness of acupuncture in treating fibromyalgia. Excerpted from a report from NHS.

Guest Articles

Acupuncture

What Disorders Can Acupuncture Treat And How Does It Work?
Today, in China and Taiwan there are over 232,000 traditional Chinese medical doctors practicing acupuncture. In America there are more than 8000 qualified acupuncturists, 16 acupuncture schools and 2 medical schools teaching acupuncture. As a treatment it's accepted and practiced worldwide.
 
Lowering the blood pressure with the help of acupuncture
Doctors and scientists from the Irvine university of California have recently discovered a new method of lowering blood pressure. This method is based on electroacupuncture, which seems to have a significant effect in lowering blood pressure.
 
Acupuncture Treatment for Acne
Many studies have shown their highest success of acupuncture treatment for acne to be in those patients who also made lifestyle and diet changes, as well.
 
The Health Benefits of Acupuncture
The proponents of acupuncture rave about the benefits and efficacy of receiving acupuncture treatment sessions. There are also many studies that have substantiated some of the positive effects of acupuncture treatments on patients.
 
Acupuncture Eases Tension Headache Pain
The ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture has proven to be an effective treatment for tension headache. It not only relieves pain, but also cuts rates of recurrence by almost half, a recent study indicates.

Weight Loss With Acupuncture - Can Acupuncture Help You Lose Weight?
Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners or TCM physicians claim that acupuncture can help you to lose body fat by making you feel full and so will eat less. This curbs excess caloric consumption in the patient treated with acupuncture and is a great help in the patient’s weight loss program.

How Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture) Enhances Fertility
TCM practitioner will carefully determine the state of your imbalances and prescribe an individualized program of herbs, acupuncture and diet to help you create the correct environment for fertility and pregnancy.

Can Acupuncture Help you Stop, and Eventually Quit Smoking?
Acupuncture is a highly effective method for treating all manner of addictions including nicotine. The application of acupuncture to help you stop and eventually quit altogether, involves the insertion of very fine needles into special points on the skin.

Acupuncture: A Benefit to the Well Individual?
Acupuncture has been shown to be effective in many areas of health care. Areas such as postoperative nausea, chemotherapy side effects, osteoarthritis, low-back pain, headache, menstrual cramps, addiction, carpal tunnel syndrome, and asthma, just to name a few.

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