Acupuncture Treatment
Acupuncture treatment has been developed since then and was first developed in China. Acupuncture is an alternative treatment with a simple technique to treat various diseases by using a needle inserted into the center of the body in accordance with the symptoms of the disease found in, for example, people with symptoms of kidney disease can be treated with acupuncture in the palm.
Acupuncture not only inhibit the pain, but also directly affect blood circulation, blood pressure, and the immune system, digestion, respiration, reproduction, and nervous system.
Therefore, the wider use in treating conditions such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, digestive disorders, fatigue, acne, arthritis, asthma, anxiety, depression and insomnia. Clinical recent research using acupuncture in the treatment of alcohol, drug and tobacco addiction shows that stimulate the ear points decreased cravings and withdrawal reactions.
Rather than diagnose and treat specific diseases such as in allopathic medicine, Chinese medicine focuses on the type of imbalance in the body, but does not cure the disease but the whole community through the harmonization of. Disease is a disturbance in the balance as a whole.
This holistic view can be expressed in the maxim: “People are not sick because he has the disease but the disease because he was sick.”
Acupuncture Treat Patients According to Diagnosis, History of Medicine
An acupuncture practitioner makes the diagnosis by observing the patient’s past and present symptoms and complaints, a family health history, social and natural environment, lifestyle, and thoughts, emotions and relationships as well as observations of color face and tongue, and physical assessment of the body and pulse. Patients may need additional treatment such as herbal therapy or diet and exercise to improve the results of acupuncture.