Acupuncture

ACUPUNCTURE

 

A treatment with a well-tested reputation for safety, acupuncture uses hair-fine needles to stimulate specific points on the body to affect change. In CM this process is thought to encourage a healing response, with points chosen according to the practitioner's diagnosis of the blockages or imbalances that might underlie a patient's symptoms.

In some cases acupuncture is used in combination with Chinese herbal medicine.

* Traditional acupuncture differs from Western medical acupuncture (including dry needling), an adaptation of the Chinese tradition. This modern interpretation of acupuncture, however, lacks the sophisticated Traditional Chinese Medicine understanding of disease and the treatment of the whole individual, instead relying on the anatomical understanding of the body.