Importance of Practicing Acupuncture

Acupuncture is an alternative therapy that comes from China and has been used for more than 2,000 years. This discipline It consists of placing needles on the surface of the skin in different parts of the body. Each ailment corresponds to a type of needle and a specific placement site.

An internationally recognized branch of medicine

The World Health Organization and other prestigious organizations recognize the validity of this discipline. Thus, there are more than forty diseases that can be treated through acupuncture.

The objective of this technique is not to calm the symptoms of a pathology but to restore health. According to specialists in this field, the human body presents a flow of energy that can be rebalanced through the correct use of needles. Each of the strategic points of the body are resonators, which means that each point fulfills a specific energetic function.

According to acupuncture approaches, a disease is the result of an energy imbalance. In this way, when an organ does not have adequate energy, the needles are intended to recover or enhance the necessary energy.

The human body works like nature itself as a whole.

In Chinese acupuncture there are five elements of nature: water, wood, fire, earth and metal. This implies that where there is abundant water it is possible to find wood, where there is wood it is possible to obtain fire, from fire fertile land is produced and, finally, if the land is fertile, some type of deposit of metal.

Our body works in a similar way, since each organ corresponds to one of the five elements of nature. Thus, water is related to the bones and bone marrow, wood represents the muscles and tendons in their function of contraction, fire is equivalent to to the blood vessels, the earth corresponds to the lymphatic and subcutaneous tissue and, finally, the metal represents the skin and hair of the human body.

Apart from the physical and functional functions, acupuncture also incorporates the emotional and psychic dimension of the individual.

In summary, this ancient technique addresses the health of people from a holistic vision in which body and mind are closely linked. It can be affirmed that acupuncture restores and repairs the system of communication energy of our organism.

Lastly, it should be mentioned that specialists in this technique recommend that patients complement the treatment with a balance diet.

Fotolia. Chombosan / Milos Vymazal