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Acupuncture is one of the most powerful ways to naturally stimulate your body’s innate self-healing. Your body makes millions of healing substances and knows exactly how to use them. Acupuncture modulates the nervous system and the nervous system controls and coordinates every function of the body, directing balance throughout your natural self-healing systems.
A very important phrase within traditional Chinese medicine is Yi Dao Qi Dao (意到氣到); 'mind intent leads, and then qi arrives’. Now if all disease; pain, weakness, poor mobility, digestive disease, emotional disease is a dysfunctional movement regulation of qi and blood on some very fundamental level, what we need to do is normalize the movement of qi and blood, that’s the basic concept of Guiding Needle Acupuncture.
When treating pain, weakness, poor mobility; moving the part of the body affected, moves qi and blood to that affected area of the body, restoring circulation and function.
For internal medicine concerns such as digestive disorders for example, swallowing during treatment promotes the downward movement of stomach function.
If there is poor lung capacity and shallow breathing concerns, patients can take deep, slow breaths during treatment.
For anxiety and depression concerns, deep, slow breathing while focusing on the bottoms of the feet consolidates scattered qi and promotes grounding. Acupuncture also regulates serotonin in the brain. This is why depression is often treated with acupuncture.
Some of the physiological effects observed throughout the body include increased circulation, decreased inflammation, relief from pain, relief of muscle spasms and increased T-cell count which stimulates the immune system. Acupuncture is used worldwide both as a primary and complementary form of medical treatment. The list of conditions that acupuncture may help is essentially limitless.
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