Acupuncture and Acupuncturist

Acupuncture comes in many forms including Chinese, Japanese, electro stimulated, laser and medical.  Medical acupuncture is non meridian taking an approach similar to trigger point therapy.  If you don't like needles you may prefer the Japanese style of acupuncture as the needles are finer or try laser as there is no needles at all.  Acupuncture varies with the practitioner with some putting the needles lightly into the skin with others using a deeper approach and twisting the needles for extra stimulation.

Acupuncture involves the process of having needles inserted into your skin at set acupuncture points. There are many forms of acupuncture including Chinese, Japanese, electro and medical.  Acupuncture is particularly good at maintaining health.  Traditional Chinese Medicine acupuncture theory has for thousands of years shown effective in assisting with restoring or maintaining health by rectifying the energy flow in someone.

Points in the body that are important to a person/s healing are the basis of acupuncture. Needles are inserted at these points to stimulate healing. Although many see acupuncture as only needles, other techniques are also used, including herbs, burning and electric stimulation, but the use of needles is the chief means of reconnecting the energy flow in the body.

An acupuncture practitioner or acupuncturist begins by examining the body where the flows of energy circulate.  These are generally identified as meridians or conduits in the body.  Pathways of Qi (pronounced chi) energy should flow easily through channels in a healthy individual and any signs of illness will illustrate any barriers to this movement.

By improving the way the energy flows helps to restore and revitalise the energy levels in the body leading to better or optimum health. Symptoms of any illness will occur if Qi is blocked at any level.

There are twelve principal channels or meridians in the body. When the meridians develop blockages at their interconnecting points illness or disease may become evident.   Stimulating these precise points quickens the recovery to wellbeing. The meridian points are mainly correlated to the five elements that are conceived to be the basis to the laws of the universe.

The Chinese believe in preventative medicine so a good practice is to get acupuncture regularly to prevent disease.