Acupuncture Benefits to Improve Your Health
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Acupuncture is a holistic technique taken from Traditional Chinese Medicine practices in which trained practitioners stimulate specific points on the body by inserting thin needles into the skin. The use of acupuncture and other Traditional Chinese Medicine techniques has risen steadily in the U.S. and other Western countries over the past few decades.
In this episode of Ancient Medicine Today, I share information on exactly what acupuncture is, acupuncture points, the major meridians and, lastly, acupuncture benefits to improve your health. Watch to learn more.
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I just started accupnture. Last week on session 4 and wow. Migranes gone. Insomnia gone.
I love the beach just started acupuncture yesterday hoping it helps me
Acupuncture got rid of my migraines, knee pain, plantar fasciitis, and carpal tunnel. Traditional Chinese Medicine is amazing!
Took acupuncture 6 years ago for getting migraines twice a month, haven't had one since
5:07 Acupuncture is of great help in 1) headache
2) Sleep
3) chronic pain
4) cancer
5) during labor & postpartum
6) Brain.
Digestive issues
Hormonal issues.
I have amazing results from acupuncture. It really save my life.
What did it help you with?
What did it do
I was treated for my allergies and anxiety. I will return this week for other issues
I personally have had *amazing* results from acupuncture. But, I must admit that not all Acupuncturists are the same. Some are definitely better than others.
That's right! Always best to do your research.
They are QUACKS!
Not a bad introduction to acupuncture but Qi flows in the entire body, not just the primary meridians but also the cutaneous channels/meridians, sinew channels, luo connecting channels, divergent meridians, extraordinary vessels and ashi points.
Also acupuncture is the primary technique of Traditional Chinese/East Asian medicine which provides the understanding of how to use it correctly and safely. Acupuncturists are trained at the masters/doctorate level in the US to obtain licensure. Thank you Dr Axe!
Thank you for this post, I have been thinking about this for some time.
Thanks Doc will try this out never had it before!
Where's a thousand year old Chinese doctor when you need one?
I'm a practitioner of Chinese medicine and I'm surprised myself at how many of my patients are helped by acupuncture when they are constant in getting treatments.
Lina126y where are you based in please I want to have a try
That is so great to hear, Lina! Keep it up.
Love your vids i'm going to accupunturist tomorrow for hormonal balance PCOS and stress relief. Have had benefits from seeing accupunturist !
That is great news! I hope you are able to find relief.
How is it working or how did it work for you?
I had my first acupuncture treatment today for an LPR symptom relief (globus sensation and throat discomfort). Guess what? I felt 10%-15% better after the treatment than when I came into the clinic. Not placebo, because I know--if I have no zest to do anything but watching YouTune videos and reading articles about LPR or acid reflux, then it means I am not feeling okay; if I can watch a movie, then it means I feel better enough...
Useful video
Hi Doctor, what's good for high cholesterol and macular degeneration? Ty
Pls.teach more about basic
hi dr..please tell me is this treatment for face firming? can we do it alone on face or whole body? what if we only do treatment on face and not on the body
Cool
How many sessions till i feel a difference you guys think? Im interesting because i have chronic back pain / back burning
I went to acupuncture for an ovarian cyst. Less than a month my cyst went away! I also noticed that my period pain from my endometriosis was almost nonexistent. I only did three sessions. Acupuncture was there relief for me that I could’ve used many years ago.
What about anxiety and depression?
Will it help in left side paralysis today is my second session
I had a bloodclot in 2018 I take blood thinners can I get this
WORKED FOR ME ON MY FROZEN SHOULDER 100%
How many session have you done ? If you don’t mind me asking
@@zeezee1880 3 15 minute with g
P.over 3 weeks
Hello can I know how to study acupuncture from Korean university?
Would this help appetite suppression or metabolism?
For sure! One of the reason one might always feel hungry is stomach fire ( TCM diagnostics term). TCM can help diagnosis excess and deficiencies by pulse taking and observating the tongue. If in this case a patient has stomach fire then acupunture and herbs can help drain out fire and helping with to balance always feeling hungry which is just an imbalance in the body.
Watching that clock countdown is making nervous
Yeah I don't like that
That's how I feel during my online exams and quizzes.
Can you suggest for pregnant and back and constipated issues been going on for years
Does it helps in diabetes?
Can someone recommend a good acupuncturist in Nashville Tennessee????
Debbie Hannah Yelp.com
How many times is ok sir in a month
Alhamdulillah
Please suggest remedy for gastric issues ....i cant eat pulses wheat milk egg etc .For years am going through this
Sounds like u have a issue with gluten, acids, and maybe the enzymes as well present in all three. I use Probiotics and herbs but u need to find what herbs are right for u, i think herbs to rebalance and clear out you gut will be good like peppermint oil, licorice, ginger, ginseng, garlic smashed/ not chopped, yogurt, mushrooms, meat, fat, oils, and green leafy vegetables. no processed sugar no bread no processed foods with preservatives like nitrates and your should be fine
good luck
You don't want to eat that garbage anyways those are mucus forming/ clogging "foods" it's not even human food...disease thrives in a acidic environment in the body which the foods you listed cause. If you ever want to heal Research the benefits of an alkaline diet or alkaline food and start applying the knowledge immediately. You're welcome
Karaw Ann thank you so much 🙏
Brett H thank you so much 🙏
can that work for strokes
Yes!
I wana do acupuncture diploma.plz help me how can i learn this.is this available as on line?
It takes 4 years to get a degree in acupuncture and oriental medicine
Can anyone recommend a good acupuncturist in Nashville
Yup, Google
Would acupuncture help acid reflux?
Definitely!
Yes .drink apple cider vinegar after the main meal you will be cured within few days
@@hamidabenzerfa5222 no not eveyone benefits from that
@@carolinewong5868 Please tell us more! I have LPR.
@@hamidabenzerfa5222 They say ACV doesn't help LPR.
I thought you were a Christian acupuncture?
Do Christians not believe in medicine or doctors?
It Originated from China. I have a dr who is a Christian who does it but it stemmed from ancient China
In the Bible it says not to do these kinds of things
@ Erin where in the Bible
Where is that in the Bible???
In layman’s terms, acupuncture does not work - for anything.
This has profound clinical, ethical, scientific, and practical implications. In my opinion humanity should not waste another penny, another moment, another patient - any further resources on this dead end. We should consider this a lesson learned, cut our losses, and move on.
I suspect, however, human nature being what it is, that this will not happen anytime soon.
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Full article reprinted from Anesthesia & Analgesia
Acupuncture Is Theatrical Placebo
David Colquhoun, PhD* and
Steven P. Novella, MD†
Introduction
Pain is a big problem. If you read about pain management centers, you might think it had been solved. It has not. And when no effective treatment exists for a medical problem, it leads to a tendency to clutch at straws. Research has shown that acupuncture is little more than such a straw.
Although it is commonly claimed that acupuncture has been around for thousands of years, it has not always been popular, even in China. For almost 1000 years, it was in decline, and in 1822, Emperor Dao Guang issued an imperial edict stating that acupuncture and moxibustion should be banned forever from the Imperial Medical Academy.1
Acupuncture continued as a minor fringe activity in the 1950s. After the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Communist Party ridiculed Traditional Chinese Medicine, including acupuncture, as superstitious. Chairman Mao Zedong later revived Traditional Chinese Medicine as part of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966.2 The revival was a convenient response to the dearth of medically trained people in postwar China and a useful way to increase Chinese nationalism. It is said that Chairman Mao himself preferred Western medicine. His personal physician quotes him as saying “Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I do not take Chinese medicine.”3
The political, or perhaps commercial, bias seems to still exist. It has been reported (by authors who are sympathetic to alternative medicine) that “all trials [of acupuncture] originating in China, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan were positive.”4
Acupuncture was essentially defunct in the West until President Nixon visited China in 1972. Its revival in the West was largely a result of a single anecdote promulgated by journalist James Reston in the New York Times5 after he had acupuncture in Beijing for postoperative pain in 1971. Despite his eminence as a political journalist, Reston had no scientific background and evidently did not appreciate the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, or the idea of regression to the mean.
After Reston’s report, acupuncture quickly became popular in the West. Stories circulated that patients in China had open heart surgery using only acupuncture.6The Medical Research Council (UK) sent a delegation, which included Alan Hodgkin, to China in 1972 to investigate these claims, about which they were skeptical. The claims were repeated in 2006 in a British Broadcasting Corporation TV program, but Simon Singh (author of Fermat’s Last Theorem) discovered that the patient had been given a combination of 3 very powerful sedatives (midazolam, droperidol, fentanyl) and large volumes of local anesthetic injected into the chest. The acupuncture needles were purely cosmetic.
Curiously, given that its alleged principles are as bizarre as those on any other sort of prescientific medicine, acupuncture seemed to gain somewhat more plausibility than other forms of alternative medicine. As a result, more research has been done on acupuncture than on just about any other fringe practice.
The outcome of this research, we propose, is that the benefits of acupuncture are likely nonexistent, or at best are too small and too transient to be of any clinical significance. It seems that acupuncture is little or no more than a theatrical placebo. The evidence for this conclusion will now be discussed.
THREE THINGS THAT ARE NOT RELEVANT TO THE ARGUMENT
We see no point in discussing surrogate outcomes, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging studies or endorphine release studies, until such time as it has been shown that patients get a useful degree of relief. It is now clear that they do not.
We also see little point in invoking individual studies. Inconsistency is a prominent characteristic of acupuncture research: the heterogeneity of results poses a problem for meta-analysis. Consequently, it is very easy to pick trials that show any outcome whatsoever. Therefore, we shall consider only meta-analyses.
The argument that acupuncture is somehow more holistic, or more patient-centered, than medicine seems to us to be a red herring. All good doctors are empathetic and patient-centered. The idea that empathy is restricted to those who practice unscientific medicine seems both condescending to doctors, and it verges on an admission that empathy is all that alternative treatments have to offer.
There is now unanimity that the benefits, if any, of acupuncture for analgesia, are too small to be helpful to patients.
Large multicenter clinical trials conducted in Germany7-10 and the United States11 consistently revealed that verum (or true) acupuncture and sham acupuncture treatments are no different in decreasing pain levels across multiple chronic pain disorders: migraine, tension headache, low back pain, and osteoarthritis of the knee.
If, indeed, sham acupuncture is no different from real acupuncture, the apparent improvement that may be seen after acupuncture is merely a placebo effect. Furthermore, it shows that the idea of meridians is purely imaginary. All that remains to be discussed is whether or not the placebo effect is big enough to be useful, and whether it is ethical to prescribe placebos.
Some meta-analyses have found that there may be a small difference between sham and real acupuncture. Madsen et al.12 looked at 13 trials with 3025 patients, in which acupuncture was used to treat a variety of painful conditions. There was a small difference between “real” and sham acupuncture (it did not matter which sort of sham was used), and a somewhat bigger difference between the acupuncture group and the no-acupuncture group. The crucial result was that even this bigger difference corresponded to only a 10-point improvement on a 100-point pain scale. A consensus report13 concluded that a change of this sort should be described as a “minimal” change or “little change.” It is not big enough for the patient to notice much effect.
The acupuncture and no-acupuncture groups were, of course, neither blind to the patients nor blind to the practitioner giving the treatment. It is not possible to say whether the observed difference is a real physiological action or whether it is a placebo effect of a rather dramatic intervention. Though it would be interesting to know this, it matters not a jot, because the effect just is not big enough to produce any tangible benefit.
Publication bias is likely to be an even greater problem for alternative medicine than it is for real medicine, so it is particularly interesting that the result just described has been confirmed by authors who practice, or sympathize with, acupuncture. Vickers et al.14 did a meta-analysis for 29 randomized controlled trials, with 17,922 patients. The patients were being treated for a variety of chronic pain conditions. The results were very similar to those of Madsen et al.12Real acupuncture was better than sham but by a tiny amount that lacked any clinical significance. Again there was a somewhat larger difference in the nonblind comparison of acupuncture and no-acupuncture, but again it was so small that patients would barely notice it.
Comparison of these 2 meta-analyses shows how important it is to read the results, not just the summaries. Although the outcomes were similar for both, the spin on the results in the abstracts (and consequently the tone of media reports) was very different
I guess western medicine has been so heloful nothing but placebos right ypu know that right?? Most western medicine is
The entire allopathic healthcare system is one big placebo. Whatever floats your boat!
Not a bad introduction to acupuncture but Qi flows in the entire body, not just the primary meridians but also the cutaneous channels/meridians, sinew channels, luo connecting channels, divergent meridians, extraordinary vessels and ashi points.
Also acupuncture is the primary technique of Traditional Chinese/East Asian medicine which provides the understanding of how to use it correctly and safely. Acupuncturists are trained at the masters/doctorate level in the US to obtain licensure. Thank you Dr Axe!