Acupuncture for “health traffic jams”
Acupuncture helps open up the meridians and get your Qi flowing, which can improve your health:
“In an era when diagnostic medical tests can run into the thousands of dollars, her tools are fingers on a pulse. The body can reveal what ails it by its pulse, explains traditional Chinese medicine practitioner Kimberly Halsey.
This 2,000-year-old system, which includes acupuncture and other forms of treatment, can offer relief for some of 2008’s common health problems such as quitting smoking and weight loss.
According to the Web site of the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, an NIH Consensus statement noted acupuncture has shown promising results in certain conditions and might be useful in a number of others.
Traditional Chinese medicine works on the principle of getting chi, the body’s invisible life force, to flow smoothly in the body’s 12 meridians, chi’s primary pathways. Points representing different organs are believed to be along the pathways.
“When chi gets blocked, it’s a big traffic jam,” explains Halsey.
Practitioners activate the flow by means of sterile disposable needles that are inserted into crucial body energy centers, herbs and other methods.
Those include moxabustion and cupping. In moxabustion, the herb mugwort is heated in a tube and held close to crucial energy centers. In cupping, suction cups are applied on energy points.
Her methods and herbs are safe, having been tried and proven for thousands of years, Halsey says.
For smokers, acupuncture can take away withdrawal symptoms by working with points on the ear, Halsey says, including those controlling hand and mouth to cut down on the urge to pick up a cigarette and put it in the mouth.”
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