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Acupuncture Treatment
Acupuncture Treatment – How Does Work?
Written by Peter Games
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Years ago, while working as an engineer in Boston, I received acupuncture treatments focused on reducing the high level of stress in my life. I had been on a very taxing project at work and after hearing a co-worker rave about an acupuncturist, I became curious enough to begin weekly acupuncture treatments. It was apparent to me that acupuncture treatments brought about a change, but as an engineer, I sought a logical explanation and became curious about how acupuncture could elicit such a response in a patient. The acupuncturist would state tersely that unbalanced energy was being balanced. I assumed that my acupuncturist was actually avoiding my questions. I just wanted an answer to my question.
Several years later, while living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I met a student who was studying at a local acupuncture college. Now, I could surely get an answer to my question. Again, I found this answer very unsatisfying. How could she be incapable of answering this question after two years of studying acupuncture?
After another year had passed, my continued interest in acupuncture led me to apply and enroll at Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the academic programs teaching traditional Chinese medicine in the United States today, there is little emphasis placed upon the subject of how acupuncture works from a scientific point of view. Rather, the educational programs focus upon helping the student understand the Eastern explanation of acupuncture, the one that I originally found so evasive and confusing.
This isn’t to say that research studies aren’t focused on determining how acupuncture treatment works from a modern scientific viewpoint. In many such studies, acupuncture treatment has been shown to trigger the brain to release endorphins and enkephalins, chemicals with pain relieving properties. Other theories propose that acupuncture needles jam the neuronal pathways and thereby prevent pain signals from reaching the brain. Additional studies have shown that acupuncture needle insertion activates the brain’s regulation of neurotransmitters and hormones, affecting many primary systems in the body, including the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems.
Yet during my acupuncture studies, I finally began to see the value of understanding the traditional Chinese explanation of acupuncture treatment, since that was the paradigm within which instructors and practitioners had worked for thousands of years. If we try to talk about Chinese medicine strictly from a scientific viewpoint, then we are not really talking about Chinese medicine. The energy flowing through these pathways can become blocked or obstructed due to emotional stress, unhealthy lifestyle choices, harmful environmental factors, poor diet, or physical injury.
An acupuncturist uses acupuncture needles (and other methods) to mildly stimulate certain specific points on the body to restore balance to the normal flow of that energy, relieving pain, and treating disease.
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