Why is acupuncture, a national treasure, so “magical”?
Acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medicine treatment method. Acupuncture has good preventive and therapeutic effects on many diseases, such as stroke, gout, back pain, etc., and acupuncture has almost no side effects. The following will introduce to you what acupuncture is and why acupuncture is so "magical".
1. What is acupuncture?
Acupuncture refers to the general term for acupuncture and moxibustion.
Acupuncture refers to inserting filiform needles into the patient's body at a certain angle under the guidance of traditional Chinese medicine theory, and using acupuncture techniques such as twisting and lifting to stimulate acupoints and dredge meridians on specific parts of the human body. achieve the effect of treating diseases. The insertion points are called human body acupoints, or acupoints for short.
Moxibustion uses pre-made moxibustion grass or moxibustion sticks to burn, smoke and iron acupuncture points on the body surface to cause slight burns, and uses thermal stimulation to prevent and treat diseases. Mugwort is usually used, so it is generally called moxibustion.
Acupuncture consists of "needle" and "moxibustion" and is one of the important components of Oriental medicine. Its content includes acupuncture theory, acupuncture points, acupuncture technology and related equipment. In the process of formation, application and development It has distinctive Chinese national culture and regional characteristics and is a valuable heritage based on the Chinese national culture and scientific tradition.
2. The principle of acupuncture
Acupuncture is to stimulate the acupuncture points to dredge the meridians, improve the self-healing ability of the human body, and mobilize the body's own It uses immunity and the body's own repair power to treat, prevent diseases and adjust imbalances in the human body. Locally dredges the meridians, relieves muscle spasms, makes Qi and blood flow smoothly, and metabolizes local edema and metabolites in a timely manner to achieve a general and pain-free effect.
3. Which diseases are suitable for acupuncture therapy?
1. Orthopedic diseases
Lumbar disc herniation, ankylosing spondylitis, cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, waist and leg pain, etc. Acupuncture can improve the blood flow rate to quickly eliminate edema, reduce inflammation and relieve pain, relieve muscle spasms, and reduce blood vessel compression. Therefore, it has an immediate effect on improving symptoms such as pain and numbness.
2. Endocrine disorders
Acupuncture can regulate imbalances in the human body, adjust endocrine abnormalities, or obesity and other problems caused by hormonal problems. The goal of healthy weight loss can be achieved.
3. Sub-health conditioning
Bronchitis, rhinitis, chronic fatigue, kidney deficiency and other problems.
Sub-health is mainly divided into two types. One is that the patient feels nothing, but suffers from a long-term chronic disease and does not experience any discomfort when not having an attack. The other is when the patient feels unwell, but no disease is found after examination. These two conditions are treated with acupuncture, which has good therapeutic effects.
4. Advantages of acupuncture therapy
1. Dredge the meridians
The function of dredging the meridians is to clear the blocked meridians. , exerting its normal physiological effects, is the most basic therapeutic effect of acupuncture.
2. Reconciling Yin and Yang
The function of acupuncture to reconcile Yin and Yang is to adjust the body from an imbalance of Yin and Yang to a balanced state, which is also the ultimate goal of acupuncture therapy.
In short, acupuncture has many effects on the body. The main functions of acupuncture are "benign two-way adjustment effect", "analgesic effect" and "enhancing the body's resistance".
The above is the reason why acupuncture can cure diseases, and it is also the "magic" part of acupuncture.