The biggest treatment acknowledged by western medicine is acupuncture’s role in helping to treat pain, but it can also promote digestion, sleep and a general sense of well-being. It helps with the endocrine, nervous, immune and cardiovascular systems, bringing healing energy to those areas that are blocked and in some distress.
Here are six conditions that clinical studies have shown acupuncture can help:
1. Cancer treatment effects – Many chemotherapy and radiation patients suffer from nausea as a result of treatments. Acupuncture can help with that imbalance, energize a washed-out and listless reaction, help with nausea, and increase the immune system’s battle to right itself.
2. Headache – Many migraine sufferers have turned to acupuncture treatments for relief. It is believed that acupuncture can help lengthen the time period between attacks and help make them less severe when they do strike
3. Chronic pain – Back pain, neck pain and other achy sections of the body are a constant source of anxiety and suffering for the afflicted. Acupuncture can ease symptoms and bring blessed relief to those who have something wrong in sensitive areas.
4. Women’s reproductive issues – Many women have premenstrual syndrome problems that can cause wild mood swings. Acupuncture can help calm those conditions and can also aid with fertility problems and such menopause issues as insomnia and hot flashes.
5. Chronic fatigue – This mysterious ailment has perplexed western medicine for decades. Treatments by acupuncturists help chronic fatigue sufferers gain energy to combat the debilitating problems caused by extreme fatigue. It also improves stamina and deals with flu-like symptoms that occur in some patients. Because the traditional Chinese medicine holds that weakened organs are the source of fatigue, it is believed the treatments aid in restoring their vigor.