How to Treat Anemia With Acupuncture

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"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. We do treat other circulatory disorders as well. We can treat anemia and, as a matter of fact, anemia is a good illustration of a comparison between traditional Chinese medicine and Western Medicine. In Chinese medicine, there's a diagnosis that we used to called "blood deficiency," and blood deficiency doesn't mean that you're a quart low, it just means that the blood isn't as strong as it should be, isn't carrying the nutrients the way it should. And-- SARAH HAUER: It's more of the quality rather than... SIG HAUER: Right. SARAH HAUER: ...the quantity type diagnosis... SIG HAUER: Right. SARAH HAUER: ...of Chinese medicine. SIG HAUER: And in Chinese medicine, we see blood deficiency at its early stages. We start to recognize that and we can quite often head people off from having further problems. Blood deficiency, when it gets to an extreme, is recognized by Western medicine as anemia. At that point, the test that Western medicine uses, the numbers that they look at will say, "Hey, okay, now we have anemia." But again, we see blood starting to weaken long before things like that happen. SARAH HAUER: We also treat arteriosclerosis and we can really keep things moving."