Acupuncture Points

Hey guys! How are you doing? I hope you´re doing well, for me this week has been kind of hard because I had a congress, and I was so busy, and next week would be harder because exams are starting, so I will be even busier, but anyways here I am, glad to write to you about the acupuncture points.

First of all I want to tell you what an acupuncture point is. An acupuncture point is a location in the body where the needle is inserting, and this point treats and different thing, I mean, each acupuncture point is use for a different problem.

Like I told you in the past post, the Chinese medicine is based in the energy of the ying, yang so the acupuncture points are insert in a certain points to relief the tension, and this system is called the meridian system. The Chinese medicine uses a measurement called cun, and is this measurement the one that locates each one of the points.

“Points tend to be located where peripheral nerves enter a muscle, the midpoint of the muscle, or at the enthuses where the muscle joins with the bone.^[6] Location by palpation for tenderness is also a common way of locating acupoints. Points may also be located by feeling for subtle differences in temperature on the skin surface or over the skin surface, as well as changes in the tension or "stickiness" of the skin and tissue.” (Wikipedia)

I am going to present you a picture of all the acupuncture points in the body, so you can know each one of them.

Well guys thank you so much for your attention and I hope you enjoy my post and have a great weekend!

Bibliography

Wikipedia. Acupunture points. 29 de September de 2011 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture_point>.

Mental Disorders

Hello to everyone! Today´s topic is about acupuncture and mental disorders. I have pick this topic, because a friend of mine, read my last post and he was very interested in what I wrote, so he propose to me that if a can talk about this topic, because he want it to know if acupuncture was able to cure mental or mood disorders, so here I am.

China´s religion is base in the power of the yin yan, that is based on your mood and the vibes you transmit, so in the Chinese religion there is not an actual mental disorder, because what make you feel bad is the imbalance of your energy.

What acupuncture does to cure this “diseases”, is that they treat the symptoms of the illness, like for example, if you feel depressed, your symptoms will be, that you don´t want to eat, you don´t want to go out, you have too many stress, and all your body hurts, you should go to the acupuncturist and they will insert the needless in the right places so all of the symptoms go away and you feel renew, but I insist they don´t treat the illness, they treat the symptoms.

Well guys that’s all for now, I hope you understand really what the acupuncture does with this kind of problems, and I am already thinking that my next post (next week) will be about the points were the needless are insert and what do they treat, so stay tune for next week, thank you all for your encouraging comments, I really appreciate them.

Bibliography

Acupuncture America. Acupuncture for Mental Illness. 21 de September de 2011 <http://www.acupunctureamerica.com/acupuncture_mentalillness.html>.

Traditional Chinese Medicine. Mental Disorders. 21 de September de 2011 <http://tcm.health-info.org/Common%20Diseases/Bipolar.htm>.

Infertility + Acupuncture = Baby!

Hi everyone! How you been? I hope everyone is good because partials are gone! These past days have been death, really I mean it, I´ve been having so much homework and projects, and studying for exams, week of death, but I am alive now. This time I am going to talk about how acupuncture can help with parents that want to have children, but unfortunately they can´t.

It´s have been proved that the practice of acupuncture to help get pregnant has been successful because what acupuncture does, is that it increases the blood flow to the endometrium, making possible the development of the zygote. (Berkely)

Researchers have found out that infertility symptoms like, unbalanced menstrual cycle and the early miscarriages, can be cure by the practice of acupuncture and by oriental herbs, because they regulate or balanced you menstrual cycle so you can know when it is appropriate to conceive and while you are pregnant it helps to maturate the egg, so the baby is in good conditions. (Ovulation- Calculator.com)

            What Chinese doctors recommend is that you should start going to therapy, 3 to 4 months before the insemination o the natural conceive, so the mom´s body is already adapt to these medicines, and is also prepare for the sperm to get to the egg.

           

Bibliography

Berkely, Mike. American Pregnancy Association. 8 de September de 2011 <http://www.americanpregnancy.org/infertility/acupuncture.htm>.

Ovulation- Calculator.com. Fertility Acupuncture for Ovulation and Cycle Regularity. 8 de September de 2011 <http://www.ovulation-calculator.com/acupuncture.htm>.