FACTS
•Acupuncture is very safe and
has few-no side effects.
•Acupuncture is a Complementary Medicine.
•Acupuncture is a practical, Physical medicine.
•The first evidence of Acupuncture
dates to 1523 B.C.
•Little was known about Acupuncture in the U.S before 1971.
•Today
there are 20,000+ U.S. Acupuncturists.
•Acupuncturists receive complete Chinese Medicine training and must
also achieve a Master of Science degree.
•Acupuncture is part of a Medical practice that has served vast
populations for over 2000 years.
•Acu-points are found all over the body and are safe to use when
properly needled.
•Acu-Point selection is guided by Chinese Medical Theory.
The
FDA
1....Classified the 'acupuncture needle' as a Standard Medical Device in 1994.
2....Estimates
that over 12 Million treatments are administered every year.
3....Reports that Acupuncture and TCM drives a 0.5 Billion dollar
micro-economy annually.
How Does it Work?
Energy + Physiology
•Chinese Medicine speaks of Qi, Acu-points and Meridians
as a functional, conducting network within the Body.
•Emerging
research wisdom accepts that our endocrine, immune and nervous systems are a whole.
•Some evidence proposes that needles activates Neural pathways ~
•Some suggest that an inter-play of signals between neural and connective tissue
components, triggered by the needles, affects the cells surrounding the Acu-points (non-Neural)~
•Some describe the action of needling as 'modulating
an information carrying system' mediated by a neuro-fascial network.
Acupuncture + the Human Body
=
Therapeutic Effect
