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Losing Weight Effectively with Bellevue Acupuncture
Bellevue Acupuncture is truly effective for weight loss. However, many people think that it is some kind of a miracle treatment where potentially several kilos of weight can be lost with just a few treatment sessions. This is not how acupuncture works. Acupuncture helps you lose weight in many ways. One of the primary reasons for weight gain is eating more food than you can burn. Oftentimes, when you are offered or see a delicious meal, you crave for it. Acupuncture helps you control cravings. In fact, acupuncture is powerful enough to help control chemical and behavioral addiction and food craving can also be called food addiction. Acupuncture can help control our desire for foods such as ice cream, hamburgers, pizza, cheesecake, French fries, doughnuts and basically all kinds of foods.
Another way in which acupuncture can be your best support for weight loss is it decreases stress. Stress induces depression and anxiety and when people are stressed out they seek relief and comfort from foods such as chocolate, ice cream, etc. When one feels relaxed and comfortable, states which acupuncture provides a person, the mind and body would not feel the urge to find comfort from foods and anything else.
The last way acupuncture aids you to lose weight is its power to improve your digestive function. A better digestive function means better and more efficient absorption of nutrients. Food is better digested and nutrients are absorbed much better. This satisfies the body with less food intake and therefore fewer calories to burn. Acupuncture belongs to a collection of modalities called Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and TCM sees excess fat as damp tissue. This means that the body is not efficient enough to metabolize moisture and food very well. The damp tissue also metaphorically means that it dampens your desire to exercise.
To address dampness, acupuncture first improves your digestion. Oftentimes the acupuncturist combines Chinese herbs and dietary advice along with acupuncture to improve the digestive process. With the improvement of digestion comes also the lessening of the tissue dampness.
Here are some tips to improve your digestion:
-Foods that are cooked are easier to digest than raw ones. Therefore eat foods that are cooked because they can be easily digested and their nutrients absorbed faster. It is good to eat lots of stir fried dishes, stews and soups.
-As much as possible try not to eat frozen or cold foods or drink ice cold liquids. Try to also limit your drinking when you eat your meals.
-Choose lighter foods such as complex carbohydrates, a little protein, fruits and vegetables.
-Do not eat foods or drink fluids that promote dampening. Examples of these foods and drinks are alcohol, artificial sweeteners, sugar, saturated fats concentrated juices and very greasy foods.
Acupuncture Jacksonville Treatment for Hypertension and Constipation
Acupuncture Jacksonville is a globally known natural treatment for pain. Its origin dates back over 2,500 years ago in China. Practitioners of acupuncture believe that the body has several acupuncture points scattered all around it and these points are where the acupuncture needles are inserted to address certain kinds of illnesses. These practitioners also believe that vital energy and blood flows in the body to give energy and nutrition to the whole body. If a blockage of energy occurs, this creates an imbalance and energy deficiency in the affected areas which leads to certain types of diseases. Acupuncture is then applied to correct the imbalance and/or blockage in energy flow by inserting needles into acupuncture points that stimulate biochemical reactions which correct the problems and treat the disease.
The needles’ main task is to stimulate the points. Sometimes to optimize and facilitate the treatment, electromagnetic energy, friction or heat is used along with the needles. Acupuncture was introduced in the United States during the 1970’s as a type of pain reliever but since then people have discovered its beneficial power in treating many kinds of disorders. One particular and common disease that acupuncture can treat is high blood pressure or hypertension. Some acupuncture studies using hypertensive rats as test subjects showed that with electroacupuncture given on acupuncture points on the legs of the rats, the rats’ high blood pressure significantly lowered to a normal rate. More studies revealed that acupuncture truly lowers the blood pressure of patients who suffer from hypertension and this is good news for people with cardiovascular problems.
Other health problems which acupuncture has proven to be effective are gastrointestinal problems particularly constipation. People who have normal bowel movement twice or three times a day have normal bowel habits, anything less than that means they suffer from constipation. With acupuncture the normal rate of bowel movement is restored. Acupuncture also helps in the improvement of blood circulation. If blood flow to the digestive system is deficient, the system can dysfunction and can cause problems like constipation. So improving the blood flow to the digestive system is one way where acupuncture can treat constipation.
Traditional Chinese medicine, which acupuncture is a part of believes that constipation is caused by the intestine being too dry and energy shortage in the stomach and spleen. Acupuncture for the treatment of gastrointestinal problems enables gastric motility, releases stress in the digestive organs and improves blood and energy flow to the stomach, spleen, colon, etc. Acupuncture can also treat stomachache and backache, aches that usually come with constipation.
If you want to be treated of your high blood or constipation problems, be sure to see a licensed acupuncturist in Jacksonville to be guaranteed a safe and effective treatment. Know more about acupuncture by doing some research online to see how this ancient treatment can be of service to you.