How much do you know about acupuncture?

  Acupuncture is an important part of Chinese traditional medicine, which is a method of preventing and treating diseases by acupuncture and moxibustion under the guidance of Chinese medical theory. For many years, acupuncture has been widely used by Chinese around the world, and the first acupuncture anesthesia in China in the 1970s has aroused the interest of the international community in acupuncture and accelerated the development of acupuncture in the world, and now acupuncture has become an effective alternative therapy to modern medicine.  Acupuncture is a method of treating diseases by stimulating the meridian points of the body with needles; moxibustion is a method of treating diseases by igniting moxa made from Chinese herbal medicine and using the heat emitted from it to stimulate the meridian points of the body. According to the basic theory of Chinese medicine, there are numerous meridians in the human body that form a meridian system, which communicates with the internal organs and the body surface, linking the internal organs of the human body into an organic whole. There are 14 meridians in the meridian system with acupuncture points, which are the parts of the body where the qi and blood of the internal organs and meridians are infused on the body surface, and there are mainly 361 of them throughout the body. The role of the meridian system is to run the qi and blood through the meridians, adjust the yin and yang, so that the functional activities of the various parts of the body to maintain coordination and relative balance, so that the body is in a healthy state. Once a disease occurs in one of the organs, the relative balance of the body is disrupted, then we can use acupuncture or moxibustion to stimulate the acupuncture points on the surface of the body, through the meridians to adjust the internal qi and blood of the body, so that the balance of yin and yang again, so that the body is healthy again.  In recent years, modern medicine has studied acupuncture therapy from neural structure, physiology, biochemistry, medical electronics and other aspects, and researched the reasons why acupuncture has curative effects, and after years of efforts, we found that: acupuncture has good analgesic effect; acupuncture has adjustment effect on organ and tissue function; acupuncture has adjustment effect on blood composition; acupuncture can also improve immune function.  Acupuncture is not only for simple, painful diseases, as people think, but also for a wide range of diseases, not only for common ones, but also for difficult ones. In the early 1990s, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended 43 effective conditions for acupuncture, including frozen shoulder, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, osteoarthritis, tenosynovitis and other common orthopedic diseases; post-stroke, migraine, facial palsy, trigeminal neuralgia, insomnia, cough, asthma, stomach pain, diarrhea, constipation, impotence and other internal medicine, neurological diseases; enuresis, myopia, dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorders and other pediatric and gynecological diseases. The acupuncture is also used to treat pediatric and gynecological diseases such as enuresis, myopia, dysmenorrhea, menstrual disorders, etc., as well as diseases of the five tubes such as rhinitis, tinnitus and deafness. According to the latest literature, acupuncture can now treat more than 230 diseases, including attempts to alleviate the symptoms of AIDS and cancer patients, as well as using acupuncture for drug rehabilitation.  Modern acupuncture treatment methods have also developed into a variety of treatment methods based on traditional acupuncture and moxibustion, such as: electro-acupuncture, water acupuncture, ear acupuncture, head acupuncture, eye acupuncture, electro-moxibustion, meridian guidance, etc. The clinical use of multiple methods is often combined, thus improving the efficacy of acupuncture, especially for the treatment of difficult diseases.  Acupuncture is a natural treatment, which avoids the toxic side effects of drugs, is easy and effective, and is a good way to treat diseases.