The Benefits of Acupuncture: Free Online Guide to Alternative Medical Treatment

Video Transcript

"So the benefits of acupuncture are pretty wide and varied. Acupunctures are really general practitioners that treat just about anything you can imagine, outside of things you need to go to the emergency room for; like trauma or acute psychiatric disorders. Everything else we treat really well. One of the things that is very different between acupuncture vs. western medicine is acupuncture helps increase the function of things in the body. So as oppose to worrying about the physical structure, like if you break a bone it’s good to have the surgery to put it back together, if you have trouble with allergies or asthma, your immune system or your lungs aren’t functioning as well as they should. If you have digestive problems, your stomach isn’t functioning as well as it should, and that intends to decline with age. As people get older they have things like heartburn. Acupuncture helps the body increase its function, and relieves any blockages that are stopping proper functioning of the body. For instance, if you cut your finger you’d expect it to heal in a week or so. If a month later you still had a cut on your finger that would really upset you. Basically people put up with things all the time that they don’t realize aren’t functioning. People have inflation of the wrist, called carpal tunnel, and it doesn’t heal on its own. Acupuncture can be used to restore the flow of meridians, and get the healing mechanism working again and then the rest will heal itself. "