Acupuncture is a therapy that is used to treat health problems such as thesaurus, and extrapyramidal diseases,  sports injuries, headaches, stress-related disorders and so many other problems. Acupuncture is a  medical practice that stimulates many points on the body, needle penetrating helps to cure the pain and it will improve various health conditions. This therapy is effective in treating pain and nausea.

 

How does acupuncture works?

Acupuncture helps in improving body functions and to promote natural self-healing process that stimulates anatomic sites referred as points or acupoints. The best way is to stimulate acupoints with the help of insertion of sterile needles into the skin. The various other stimulation processes are heat therapy, physiotherapy, cupping and many different types of massages done by various machines in which medicines and gels are used.

After many kinds of research, we found that acupuncture can cause multiple biological responses in animals and humans. These biological responses occur at or close to the site of application, mediated mainly by sensory neurons to many structures within the central nervous system. It can help in leading the activation of pathways that affect various physiological systems in the brain.

Stimulation is the process by which acupuncture helps in activating the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland which results in a broad spectrum of systematic effects.

It regulates the flow of blood centrally and peripherally which alters the secretion of neurotransmitters and neurohormones. It is also proved that alterations in immune functions produced by acupuncture.

What happens during an acupuncture treatment?

When you go for a treatment for the first time acupuncturist will ask you about your health history after that acupuncturist will check your color and feel your pulse and some other test that depends according to your health needs. After recognizing you then acupuncturist will let u know the best or proper treatment plan. Before starting the treatment you lay comfortably on the treatment bed. Then the acupuncture starts doing the treatment by inserting the needles into the skin some people feel minimum or no discomfort. The needling process continued between 5 and 30 minutes. When the treatment completes then people feel relaxed.

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