How Acupuncture Makes your Body Stronger

Video Transcript

"SARAH HAUER: Hi. I'm Sarah Hauer. SIG HAUER: And I'm Sig Hauer, and we're professional practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine. SARAH HAUER: We're here on behalf of Expert Village. SIG HAUER: And welcome to our video. SARAH HAUER: [PH] Ellen is now experiencing her acupuncture needles and what happens when acupuncture needles are in the body is a deep relaxation occurs. Most people think that relaxation is a luxury, but the body's greatest ability to heal happens when we're deeply relaxed; so much healing can occur when we're deeply relaxed. So it's very therapeutic and very important that our patients are comfortable and pain-free on the table for the most part. So, what we're doing in this treatment is we are calming and relaxing the mind and we're tonifying what we call the middle jiao or the digestion in that digestion is so central to health in traditional Chinese medicine. So, we're moving the large intestine too, keeping the large intestine very healthy by helping it to eliminate and helping the tone there and we're also strengthening the spleen and the stomach, which are the organs in Chinese medicine for digestion and kind of like a metabolism. It's a little bit different, we talk about it a little bit differently in Chinese medicine, but it's how we get energy or chi every day through our food. So, it's very essential to optimal health. If your digestion is strong, then your whole constitution is going to improve. And we're also strengthening her kidneys which, as Sig was explaining, is similar to a "pilot light." If you think of a pilot light, it's the flame, the fire that you really want to protect so that it is not damaged and it doesn't go out. And we always strengthen the root in a treatment; this is a constitutional treatment as well as a treatment for digestion."