Acupuncture has for decades, been a growing and popular program for weight loss in the United States. It is part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practice and together with Chinese herbal medicine, has been the most popular form of TCM in the world.
Traditional Chinese medicine is a holistic science. This means it treats not only the physical sickness of the human being but aims to treat the emotional, psychological, physiological and spiritual dimensions of … Continue reading
Chakra acupuncture in West Orange is a rare combination of ancient Indian and ancient Chinese medical tradition practiced for holistic treatment of the person’s spiritual, emotional, psychological and physiological dimensions. Traditional Indian medicine states that there are seven energy points of chakra. Chakra is Sanskrit word for wheel of light. These two medical approaches are some of the oriental holistic alternatives for healing people.
The seven important chakra areas are vertically oriented in the body … Continue reading
A healthy lifestyle is always the right way to take care of one’s body. Avoidance of cigarette smoking makes for very good advice on how to keep away from sickness and disease. The smoke one inhales from cigarette smoking goes to the bronchial airways and clogs them up. Try playing basketball or any physically demanding activity and one will see how hard it is to breathe after only a few minutes into the activity.
Ancient Chinese medicine for thousands of years have known of pathways or distribution networks for the force of chi. Though similar to the body systems of the blood and neural networks, meridian systems cannot be seen physically and thus have no tangible anatomic map in western biological science.
These distribution networks are called meridian systems and they look more like electronic circuits in a motherboard or a huge spider web. Meridian lines connect different areas … Continue reading
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), yin and yang are two opposite principles in nature that oppose and complement each other at the same time. Generally, anything that moves, ascends, gives brilliance, evolves and is hyperactive relates to yang. The state of quietness, descent, darkness, devolution or degeneration and hypoactivity, relates to yin.
In short, the principles of yin and yang relate to the duality existing in the universe, most lucidly seen in the duality of … Continue reading
One of the fundamental differences between traditional Chinese medicine in Palm Harbor and western medicine is their perspective towards the organs of the human body. Whereas western medicine sees a body organ with a clearly delineated and specific function, such as the kidney used for blood filtration or the heart used for blood circulation, etc., TCM sees the kidney as not only an organ for excreting waste materials but an integral part of the reproductive … Continue reading
Acupuncture for infertility in Palm Harbor is growing in popularity for the simple reason that it works. Acupuncture is a form of treatment where reed-thin needles are inserted in specific parts of the body. These needles work threefold: First, they remove the blockages in the networks where vital energy, called chi flow freely throughout the body. These blockages cause imbalance, illness and poor health in the body. Chi is the force the keeps the body … Continue reading
Acupuncture is widely used to treat depression, not only in China but in the Western countries such as the U.S. and the U.K. as well. To treat depression through acupuncture, the points of the pericardium and the heart are focused on. For acupuncture to be more effective, a the Chinese medicine practitioner would have to evaluate the patient first so that he’ll know the main root of the depression and perform the right techniques.
There are a lot of people who are overweight and for those who are obese, perhaps surgery is the best option but for those who can’t, they can try to see if acupuncture can help take out the excess weight. Acupuncture is a form of holistic medicine that uses needles to help treat a patient. Unlike the cartoon where the balloon will pop and all the air will go out, the needles that are inserted … Continue reading
For many years, Western doctors eschewed the use of acupuncture for pain control, believing that its benefits (if any) derived from a “placebo effect.” Now, some American physicians are acquiring skills in this ancient practice because recent scientific evidence supports what traditional acupuncturists have claimed for centuries.
Over a decade ago, the National Institutes of Health conceded that acupuncture was effective for treating postoperative dental pain, but the NIH consensus panel failed to extend its … Continue reading