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How Bellevue Acupuncture Can Address Obesity
For the obese person, the best way to lose weight is with acupuncture therapy. Acupuncture Bellevue is an ancient Chinese medical practice where needles are inserted in the skin around areas known as meridian points or acupuncture or just acu points. These points are known in ancient traditional Chinese medicine as areas connecting the skin to the various organs in the body.
Meridians are networks that are spread throughout the body like veins, arteries and capillaries but instead of blood, meridians are the infrastructure systems used by chi, the Chinese word for vital energy or vital life, the life force energy that is responsible for the person’s growth, reproduction and vitality, to transport this energy all over the body. Without chi, there is no life.
Traditional Chinese medicine is a holistic science and it looks at the whole dimension of a person, the spiritual, emotional, psychological and physiological aspects when treating diseases, sicknesses or ailments. Acupuncture is one of the more popular forms of TCM and also the most effective for treating obesity.
Obesity can be caused by a number of factors; genetic predisposition, food addiction or emotional stress. Acupuncture not only aims to treat the symptom of over weight but also the cause of the disorder.
Acupuncture works on obesity by first knowing the etiology of the disease. Once known the acupuncturist determines the best treatment for the specific cause. Usually, herbal medicine is also given to aid in the facilitation of treatment. The organs which TCM usually indicates for eating disorders are in the kidney, liver and spleen.
The liver is usually the primary organ with chi stagnation because of emotional and other factors that cause overeating and the other aforementioned organs are affect by the chi imbalance in the liver. The acupuncturist then locates the meridians that connect to the liver, kidneys and spleen. Acupuncture needles are inserted into these areas to remove blockages of chi caused by environmental and psycho-emotional factors.
The ear is usually the area where the meridians connecting the 3 organs and the nervous system are located. A needle is also introduced in the ear for the central nervous system to help release endorphins to fight the addiction or craving towards food.
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Chinese Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture New York Treatment for Seasonal Allergies
Acupuncture New York is a very old medicinal procedure that is still widely used by a large number of people all over the world to treat many kinds of pain illnesses and disease. This treatment enables the free flow of energy called chi by the Chinese throughout the body using energy vessels called meridians. This free flow of energy is very similar to the flow of blood through the circulatory system albeit instead of the meridians convey chi.
The meridians and chi are intangible forces that neither have any visible anatomical structure nor any obvious manifestations that they exist. The ancient Chinese though have been able to construct a map indicating the location of the acupuncture points in the body. These points are very important and acupuncturists used them to help a specific health condition. the right acupuncture points treated will result in the rebalancing of energy in the body, the removal of chi blockages and the treatment of the health condition including its symptoms.
The Chinese also believe in the yin and yang principle that are elements that comprise chi more like the negative and positive energy of electricity. This duality often is in harmonic balance when a person is healthy and all his aspects, physical, emotional, psychological and even spiritual. Yin and yang are the cold and hot principles of nature. There are organs that are categorized as yin organs and these organs are responsible for the cold, water passive principles. The yang organs control the heat, fire, aggressive and dry aspects of the boy. The yin organs comprise the kidneys, lungs, spleen, liver and heart; the yang organs are composed of the stomach urinary bladder gall bladder and small and large intestines.
The way the yin and yang organs work in harmony with each other determine the balance of health of the body. A relative harmony and the right amount of yin and yang energy in the body means that the person is in a good state of health.
When infections occur, the bacteria or virus often have a yang or heat orientation. The infiltration of these microorganisms leads to an imbalance in yin and yang with yang becoming excessive which yin is unable to balance. Furthermore these foreign infiltrates generate toxins in the body which also causes sickness in the body.
Acupuncture combined with Chinese herbal medicine helps address the heat and cold imbalance of heat by lessening the heat produced by the bacteria or virus. The blockages caused by the infection are also unblocked and enabling chi and blood flow to improve once again in the body. The balance of yin and yang as well as the removal of energy blockages that allow the free flow of blood and chi in the affected organs all lead to a strong immune function that helps the body resist the pathogens and allergens that cause seasonal allergies