Summary: Learn what acupuncture points of the body are used to relieve pain in this free online video on healing & health through the alternative medical treatment of acupuncture.
Will Mitchell & Marlene Merritt are a husband and wife team who own their own acupuncture practice, Merritt Acupuncture. Learn from these experts and visit www.merrittacupuncture.com...read more
"So, also people ask like how does that point work. So going back to the energetic understand of Chinese medicine, maybe a Western way of being able to explain that is that we’re utilizing the body’s electromagnetic field which is something that’s actually understood in Western Medicine. And when we use the metal needles, which tend to be most commonly stainless steel, what we’re doing is shifting that electromagnetic field in certain situations. And over the five thousand years that Chinese medicine kind of established it’s medical model it figured out that there are apparently certain points that are more powerful than other points. So when we use a needle either in that point or above that point we can have a direct effect on that electromagnetic field. "
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