East Asian Medicine - Acupuncture
"Disrupted movement in the acupuncture channels indicates disease."
Acupuncture has been practiced in China, Japan, and Korea for thousands of years as an integral part of various East Asian medical traditions. It has spread throughout the world and is now used in more than 130 countries.
According to East Asian medical philosophies, the state of our health is dependent on the unhindered movement and transformation of qi within our bodies. This can become disordered by different factors, amongst them emotional stress, anger, fear or grief, hereditary dispositions, or outside influences such as poor nutrition, infection or trauma. The insertion of very fine needles into the channels that transmit qi throughout the body seeks to remedy such disorders by restoring a smooth and unhindered flow. In this way an acupuncturist aims to stimulate the body's own healing power and restore the innate equilibrium and harmonious state of balance of the physical and emotional aspects that constitute health and well-being.
Acupuncture is one of the safest system of healing, both conventional and orthodox, on offer in the UK. Two surveys conducted independently of each other and published in the British Medical Journal in 2001 concluded that the risk of a serious adverse reaction to acupuncture is less than 1 in 10,000. This is far less than many orthodox medical treatments. One survey was of traditional acupuncturists and the other of doctors who practise acupuncture. A total of 66,000 treatments were reviewed altogether, with only a handful of minor and transient side effects recorded. A 2003 survey of 6,000 patients of acupuncture produced almost identical figures. There are very few side effects from acupuncture when practised by a fully qualified practitioner of traditional acupuncture. Any minor side effects that do occur, such as dizziness or bruising around needle points, are mild and self-correcting.
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