The Power of Acupuncture: Five Major Benefits for Health Preservation

March 16, 2024
Now acupuncture is a popular new age health preservation method, and many people choose acupuncture for health preservation. But do you know? There are many acupoints in the human body, and massaging these acupoints is very helpful for the health of the body. Do you know the five major health-preserving and disease-treating effects of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture? Why does acupuncture cause pain? Let's take a look with the editor below! The health-preserving effect of acupuncture depends on finding the right acupoints. Otherwise, it will not promote health but harm the body! The 5 major acupoints for health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture 1. Gastrointestinal diseases: Acupuncture can regulate gastrointestinal function, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase blood flow under the gastric mucosa, and help with ulcer healing. Therefore, acupuncture can treat many diseases of the digestive system, including acute and chronic gastritis, functional dyspepsia, anorexia, irritable bowel syndrome, postoperative gastrointestinal dysfunction, diarrhea, gastric prolapse, gastric ulcers, etc. For example, the Zhi Gou and Zhao Hai acupoints can relieve constipation. 2. Oral diseases: As for acupuncture, there are special therapies (quick needle therapy) and general therapies. In clinical practice, when patients have oral diseases such as pharyngitis, tonsillitis, toothache, and gingivitis at the same time, quick needle therapy can be used. Treatment can be completed in just a few minutes, saving patients a lot of time and cost. 3. Respiratory diseases: Acupuncture treatment can relieve local pain and reduce symptoms of colds and rhinitis until recovery. It needs to be emphasized that traditional Chinese medicine is not as slow as people imagine. As long as the cause of the disease is identified and the acupoints are accurately located, symptoms such as sore throat and nasal congestion can be relieved or even disappear in a short time. 4. Ophthalmic diseases: Through acupuncture treatment in traditional Chinese medicine, meridians can be unblocked and organs can be regulated, which can prevent and treat eye diseases such as conjunctivitis and cataracts. For example, ear pressure therapy is one of the methods of acupuncture treatment for ophthalmic diseases. Ear pressure involves burying rapeseeds in relevant acupoints in the ear, so that the acupoints can receive benign stimulation for a long time, in order to achieve the purpose of treating eye diseases. 5. Diseases of the nervous-muscular-skeletal system: Modern medical research has shown that acupuncture can enhance immune function and produce analgesic effects by regulating the nervous and humoral systems. Acupuncture can also reduce the permeability of blood vessels in inflammatory lesions, inhibit the exudation of inflammatory substances, and achieve the purpose of treating diseases. Efficacy Moxibustion therapy is one of the unique health preservation methods in China. It can not only be used for strengthening the body, but also for the rehabilitation of people with chronic illness and physical weakness. The so-called moxibustion therapy is to apply moxibustion on certain specific acupoints of the body to regulate qi and blood, adjust meridians, nourish organs, and prolong life.
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