Showing posts with label acupuncture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acupuncture. Show all posts

6/02/2009

Acupuncture with colors, Chromepuncture

The chromepuncture is a new technique that combines the principles of chromotherapy and acupuncture, in order to rebalance the body energy. With an instrument similar to a flashlight, the specialist applies a light color on certain points of the body.

Through the colors, it may interfere with the messages sent by cells and harmonize the functioning of the body. It is used to combat migraines, rheumatism, problems in the spine and depression.

4/02/2009

Therapy to remove pain and give welfare

There are hundreds of procedures to combat the pain, from progress to pharmacological stimulation of peripheral and central areas of the nervous system or the introduction of pumps for the administration of morphine. Also the alternative therapies, or rather complementary, form an important part of treatment, even in traditional hospitals, can reduce the consumption of drugs. It has been proven effective:

• Acupuncture: investigations in neuroscience have demonstrated the validity of the method and its mechanism of action neurofi-siológico, which is to enable different parts of the body's skin, which are full of receptors, which in turn lead information to the nervous system and can release neurotransmitters and other endogenous substances with specific effects, such as analgesics. WHO recommends its use in respiratory problems, disorders of eye and mouth, gastrointestinal, neurological and skeletal muscles.

• Risaterapia: humor experts say that laughter is good therapy, rather than taking any medicine: for every laugh, the brain releases catecholamines, neurotransmitters associated with pleasure and happiness: it strengthens the immune system, releasing endorphins. Natural painkillers that reduce the pain: it helps combat stress because they relax the muscles and provides a physical exercise to increase the activity of the diaphragm, chest and lungs. Laughter stimulates the lymphatic system, circulatory, muscular, you sweat and raises your mood. That leads to higher self-esteem, serenity, relaxation, tolerance and hope and pain, as if this were not enough, it contributes to the beauty

• Meditation: The Medline database which includes extensive work of the worldwide scientific community, there are registered more than 900 studies on the beneficial effects of meditation on psychological health, including increased endorphins anxiolytic effect , decreased blood pressure, bronchodilation in asthmatics, increased fine motor skills, a 50% improvement in the quality of life of patients with cancer and AIDS to help combat insomnia, stress, relieves fatigue and muscle tension is suitable for recovery and addiction prevention in disability rehabilitation in the treatment of depression, anxiety and panic disorders, irritable colon, epilepsy and psoriasis.

• Physical activity: causes the body to release endorphins that alleviate pain, and in many cases, are more powerful than morphine, it also helps to relieve anxiety and depression, conditions that cause the suffering is more difficult to control.

• Chiropractic: This practice requires a university degree in developed countries in health, such as USA, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand or Brazil. Their job is to mobilize the appropriate vertebrae allowing neuromuscular regain lost balance by poor posture and sedentary. These physiological and anatomical no-pain and joint disorders, muscle and organ.

3/16/2009

Benefits of Chinese acupuncture

Before talking about the reasons that make this technique effective, ENUM only some of its applications:

♦ It is especially beneficial in processes that involve all the nervous disorders that cause symptoms and functional. Constipation and constipation, muscle contractures, headaches, etc., Are a clear example.

♦ It is extremely useful in treating complications of the female menstrual cycle, such as amenorreas.

♦ It is used to assist women during childbirth. Not only for pain control but also in cases where dilation of the cervix is inadequate and does not allow the passage of the baby.

♦ Acupuncture provides pain invaluable. You do not have the undesirable effects of anesthetic drugs, contraindicated in many patients.

♦ It can also be applied to other invasive or practices that cause pain, such as reductions in serious fractures or dislocations.

♦ Provide quality of life for patients suffering from diseases that cause much pain, such as cancer and rheumatic processes.

♦ One of the benefits of which less has been said is economic, especially in countries with fewer resources.

5/17/2008

Acupuncture to reduce of the Obesity

History of the technique
The advém of the acupuncture of the culture of the traditional Chinese medicine that have your starts based on the cure of pathologies that were concerned of the cause of these, and not treating the consequences like the western person of the medicine. To speak of the acupuncture that we would have more deeply that in them to become joined the cultures and the poetic traditions in certain way that they observe the man and your comparative of the pathologies them with the nature and your transformations; succinctly this way well.

History of the illness
The obesity can have infinite reasons, nevertheless in them we will arrest only that type of obese Megafágico that I eat enormous quantity of energy with the caloric high text, because anxiety or contained desire.

Method
Alcoholatura the therapeutical start in the acupuncture is to reduce the hunger and the anxiety that diminish this way the ingestion of the caloric one. Suitable diets also to have to be prescribed.

The points used in the hearing are:
- Point of the hunger
- Point of the stomach
- Point of the lung
- Point of Shen - Men
- Point of S.NC.

The needles in the point of the hunger should be arranged bilateral, the points stomach and lung should put on in the left side, and Shen points out - Men and SNC in the right.
They should be sustained behind by 20 minutes. If to remove the íons of the needles of the silver needles or permanent you should be arranged in the place where the previous ones had been inserted. The patient should be sent to massage this place to stimulate it of half hour before the foods.

Interpretation of Lapsings
The point of the hunger is used in such a way of stimulating how much to diminish the appetite, employee in system with the point of the stomach and of the lung, decrease of the appetite is observed. Shen - Men of the points and SNC are parasympathetic and they diminish the happened symptoms of the hunger of the deep sinewy.

5/16/2008

Acupuncture - alternative to the needles

Classically, the pathologic points of the pavilion auricular - and the interior dysfunctions that your alteration denotes - they are by means of the insertion of needles of Acupuncture and, in some cases of extraordinary sensibility to the needles, by means of the employment of laser. But for two years it exists a more economic alternative that the laser and that specially sensitive people can use to the needles.

And in fact to speak of this third possibility we contacted Vicente Bagué, graduated in Traditional Medicine China and professor of the Higher Institute of Traditional Medicine of Barcelona that, also, ready your knowledge to a company from Barcelona that have developed a device reequilibrador of the biologically enabled points described by the Traditional Medicine China and for Auricular medicine. We speak of the prototype Protark BAP Harmonizer - that call this way you - and that you are about a recovered plain metallic pointer of plastic whose appearance resembles each other to a marker of those that are used for the underlined of texts.

-Do we have understood that Harmonizer acts on the points of the altered ear, but, how are these detected?
-The procedures that allow to detect the pathologic points on the pavilion auricular are varied. For example, the point is easily detectable as long as you don't behave as those that he/she have around.
And you are that during the pathologic processes he/she always shows up modifications neurovegetatives, physiologic or physical. In short, the case is that the reflective points of the pavilion auricular can be detected in different ways. In the first place, observing if in the ear there is some scaled field and you dry up: you happen this way in some cases of long-term illnesses or chronic. In second place, pressing the different fields of the ear to see if some concrete point hurts and in what measure. If you happen this way reflective the existence of a problem in the related organ. In third, using determined apparatuses that detect the electric reactivity of the points that, when they are altered, they vary your electric normal parameters. And, in room, by means of the alterations that can be perceived when registering the call stand-alone vascular signal.

-How is Harmonizer built?
-I should begin saying that all the elements that compose it were selected, designed and calculated so that they generate a current galvanic ultradébil that act as signal carrier of the pattern of frequencies that the same ones emit. This emitted signal has properties armonizadoras of the biophysical processes and you behave in way actual reequilibrando the points and fields biologically enabled auricular that are altered.

-And how are you used?
-In a very plain way. Once found the pathologic points to try in the pavilion headphone, the therapist - this device is designed so that experienced people and experts of the underlying technique use it - Harmonizer arranges to scarce millimeters of the skin on the altered point and you make small drafts toward the right on him between 30 seconds and one minute. And I will add that although the direct action is exercised on that certain point of the ear, in fact what are being is the interior area with which that point is related.

-And in what type of illnesses has your utility been demonstrated?
-Your effectiveness has been verified mainly in the treatment of functional dysfunctions as the digestive ones and the intestinal ones and in cases of stress, insomnia, anxiety, migraines and neuralgias as well as of muscle aches and articular.

-How many sessions are they necessary to complete a treatment?
-Habitually they are enough with 6 to obtain a good and durable, when not definitive result. Although from the first session it is already perceived improvement of the ailment.
Now then, when they are pains localized in the muscle-skeletal system you suit that the therapist reinforces the action of Auriculoterapia directly by means of the application of the device on the affected field or in the painful points that the patient indicates specifically. In that case you proceeds exactly same: once localised the most painful point to the pressure fair Harmonizer is arranged above, without playing the skin, and you are made turn around that point. That yes, in this case it will be made during between 1 and 3 minutes.

You differ between acupuncture and auricular teraphy

And what does Auricular teraphy of the traditional Acupuncture differ?
Because that in the conventional Chinese acupuncture the biologically enabled points are always detectables, independently of the scanned fellow's health status, while the points of acupuncture headphone are only it in illness status.
That is to say, only when an anatomic or functional structure of the organism aborts your physiologic balance some sensitive points they appear in the ear to the pressure that, at the same time, they manifest an alteration in your electric parameters.

In fact the fact that the points auricular only exist in status of pathologic alteration you facilitate that they cannot only be used with a therapeutical intention but also diagnostic sometimes allowing to clarify difficult cases in those that a dark and not very definable symptomatology exists. And if you are certain that "a good diagnostic is half of a cure" you are not room for doubt that auricular teraphy is an alternative that we will keep in mind.

Diagnostic auricular
As we said, when you exist an alteration or pathologic dysfunction in any part of the organism you take place in your corresponding point in the pavilion headphone a change as for sensibility and electric features. Because all organ is reflected in the ear.
The point becomes then painful to the palpation and the pressure and an alteration of your electric conductivity takes place being observed an increase or decrease of your potential regarding the fields located around the same one.
This allows a localization easy of the altered point and to be able to treat him mediating stimuli that correct the pathologic information thanks to the reflective established system from the ear until to the nervous central system and of this toward all the fields of the organism.

Acupuncture - On what is the auricular teraphy based?

The same as the conventional Chinese Acupuncture, auricular teraphy is based on the existence of the physiologic start of the reflection, that is to say, of an ordered answer of the organism to an external pulse or I confine that are processed by the nervous central system.

Because well, in the ear - like in the foot - reflective points that are related with each field, organ, system, apparatus, viscera, etc exist., of the body. And only when a corporal field aborts your physiologic balance they can be detected in the ear points and biologically enabled altered fields that are denoting a dysfunction in the organism. Once detected, what are made is to stimulate them for diverse means - massages, needles, electric, laser currents, etc. With that stimulation, and by means of reflective complicated mechanisms, you are possible to modify and to correct the dysfunctions observed in the organism.

How to cure illnesses with acupuncture auricular teraphy?

The Acupuncture auricular teraphy is a therapeutical method and diagnostic that it are based in the existence in the pavilion auricular of some points and biologically enabled fields that are only detected when some dysfunction exists in the organism and whose stimulation an effect that are translated in the improvement or disappearance of the nuisances that you/they suffer the diseased person takes place. You happen this way in cases of functional digestive and intestinal dysfunctions, stress, insomnia, anxiety, migraines and neuralgias as well as muscle aches and articulares. And thanks to a stimulative new apparatus you can already be able to make it without nailing needles and without the costs of a laser.

"The Acupuncture auricular teraphy is, at the same time, as a control panel where the alterations of the organism and a command board are appreciated where, pressing on determined keys, certain alterations" can be corrected. You define this way this discipline the book "The challenge of Auriculoterapia. The man reflected in your ear" written by the physician Victorino Martínez Figuereo.
You are about a technical reflexoteraphy of western origin that date of about 50 years ago and that you were structured, coded and setting to point for the French physician Paul Nogier. With her excellent results are obtaining in the treatment of multiple pathologies.

Acupuncture - features of the pulses

1.- Force
2.- Speed
3.- Localization
4.- Volume
5.- Location
6.- Form
7.- Rhythm

1 - FORCE I Clear - fullness

We see with what you force you press the energy the blood.

-Strong: You beat with force at the 3 levels and in the three areas, globally. You mean that the energy vital fight against the perverse one and you are a contribution bigger than energy you bleed.
SYNDROME FULLNESS

-Weak: You beat with little force in 3 areas and 3 levels. You mean that the vital energy has lost Qi-Xue in your fight against the perverse energy.
SYNDROME OF BLANK

2 - SPEED Cold. heat

-Quick: The heat accelerates the movement of the energy, blood. The heat can being of fullness or of blank.
SYNDROME HEAT
Quick strong: quick and strong pulse = S. Heat-fullness
Quick weak: quick weak pulse = S. Heat - hole

-Slow: The cold paralyzes, you stop, tight energy-blood.
SYNDROME OF COLD
Slow strong: slow strong pulse: S.de cold fullness
Slow weak: slow weak pulse: S. Of cold-blank

3 - External LOCALIZATION. intern

-Superficial: I pulse that are when pressing lightly. You disappear with moderate and strong resión. You mean that the perverse energy is external. The energy - you bleed they develop the fight at external-superficial level.
EXTERNAL SYNDROME

-Superficial, quick strong: S. External for heat fullness. Wind heat = you seize (acute)
-Superficial, quick, weak: S. Of blank external heat. (Acute illness). You are a step after the previous pulse.

-Superficial, slow (contracted apretado=parece), strong: S. Of external, cold fullness (cold wind = cold)
-Superficial, slow-tight, weak: S. External, blank. You are the cold that last, but you don't have you interiorizado.

-Deep: I pulse that are with strong pressure almost until playing the bone. You disappear, or you are not noted, with moderate or slight pressure. The blood energy fights inside the body.
SYNDROME OF INTERIOR

-Deep, quick, strong: : S. Deep heat fullness. Interior heat. The vital energy is strong and you fight.
-Deep, quick, weak: S. Blank interior heat = I Clear of Yin

-Deep, slow, strong: S. Interior cold fullness.
-Deep, slow, weak: S. Interior blank cold = I Clear of Yang.

4 - VOLUME Blank-fullness

-Big: You are detected by a voluminous pulse, you occupy great space. You also call you wave" "pulse. We imagine a wave that he/she come.
As the heat he/she dilates, the energy bleeds you find big spaces to move. You meet with quick pulse.

-Small: (or filiform): As a fine thread. Small, fine, but I specify. (S. Hole of Qi-Xue) Like you are little Qi - Xue, is not very contained and you reflect this way.

5 - Blank ENRAIZAMIENTO. fullness

-Long: P. You overflow the 3 levels, as if you were further on. The heat instead of giving + volume, gives + length. In tall people it would not be pathologic.
SYNDROME OF FULLNESS

-Short: P. You occupy less space in the 3 areas; you don't have head neither queue, alone you beat in H-B or you grieve you note.
SYNDROME OF BLANK of energy

The Hole of Qi can be
- strong = blank Qi and torpor of Xue
- weak = I clear of Qi-Xue

6 - FORM :
1 - glidant
2- Sensible .tensa (tense)
3- Tense (tight)
4- Soft
5- Hesitant

1-glidant: As that rotate, pearls in a plate that slip, escape, you cost a little. You take it and, sometimes, in the area CHI escapes a ball.
Typical pulse of dampness, characteristic of pregnant woman.
To search it with moderate pressure.

2-chord-tense (Chinese). Tense (here): Own in spring. Long, strong, right pulse, as a horizontal thread; you are not ripple, as the chord of a violin.
You indicate dysfunctions of H and VB
Typical of torpor of Qi of H.
In clinic: in old men with arteriosclerosis and hypertension.

3-tense (in China). Tight (here): Comprehensive, strong, tight. As a sensible but thicker that that of violin indicates cold and pain for cold.
-superficial tight = I fry external
-deep tight = interior cold

4-soft: You give when pressing, the fingers collapse in the pressure. You meet with the superficial pressure.
You Indicate Dampness.

5/11/2008

Acupuncture

You would have originated approximately for three thousand years of China, the acupuncture treats the illnesses inserting in having determined points of the body some sterilized very fine needles of steel. These needles, penetrate to a depth that vary in feature of the field to try, oscillating from some few millimeters until some centimeters.

The origin of the acupuncture portions of the idea that our body is crossed by a network of twelve channels, the meridians, through which the vital, called energy circulates Chi. This energy is formed by two forces in balance, Yin and Yang.

When you are a good balance, Chi the whole body you scan nurturing tissues and the different organs, using the different meridians by way of distribution channels. If Chi cannot flow regularly, an unbalance that make appear the illness take place.

The acupuncture uses determined points (that they are indicated with a number) located to the long of the whole itinerary that the meridians scan: the input of the needles in these points contributes to reequilibrar the flow of Chi, deleting the jam and rectifying the possible lacks or energy excesses.

As for the starts of the effectiveness, in the last years the acupuncture has been studio object on the part of the western medicine: by means of scientific experiments it has been tried to check if this therapy works and by means of what mechanisms.

You have been discovered that stimulating the points pointed out by the acupuncture is induced to the nervous system to segregate chemical (neurotransmisiones, hormones) substances that favor the correct operation of our organism.

According to the point that are stimulated, different areas of the brain are activated of where the signals that will induce to cure the diseased organs leave.

Acupuncture in the menopause

The conventional sofocones, next to the vaginal dryness and to the nervous excitation state that you/they characterize the transit of the fertile age toward the menopause (climaterio), when the ovaries diminish the hormonal production, they can also be treated with the acupuncture.

For it, the meridian of the kidney is used that control the whole endocrine system, integrated by those glands that segregate the hormones directly in the circulatory system.

During the menopause you the production of estrogens can increase stimulating the point number 2 (under the arch of the foot) or the 6 of the kidney (under the ankle): besides mitigating the sofocones, you improve the flow, the shade of the skin and that of the bones.

For the anxiety and the depression they can unite some such points as the 7 of the meridian of the heart (in the doll) and those that are on the forearm.

You remember that each acupuncture session half hard hour, approximately. However, the time invested in the treatment can vary in feature of the different types of problems: a cycle understands between six and twelve sessions, distributed weekly.

Acupuncture in delivery

In the acupuncture they are used around 400 different points. From among all them, only some are very suitable to treat the dysfunctions characteristic of the woman. The combinations can be different, according to the patient's symptoms.

In delivery, the acupuncture can regulate the contractions, you favor the dilation and to unload the effort. For they are used it two points: the 4 of the large intestine and (in the dorsum of the palm of the hand) the 6 of the Spleen-pancreas (four fingers above the ankle, in the interior part of the leg).

The same point is good to locate the fetus correctly in the event of presentation podálica. The needle is applied in the point that should be stimulated heating it with an artemisa cigarette. This treatment is applied among the week 31 and the 34: the percent of success is of 75%, being avoided this way the resource of the Caesarean.

To alleviate the pain you can puncture and electroestimular (applying an electric soft current) the point 60 of the Gall bladder, among the external part of the ankle and the tendon of Achilles that it produce a sedative great effect and pain reliever.

Benefits of the acupuncture in the gynecology

The acupuncture is a therapy without contradictions, being very advisable when you are not possible to take traditional drugs or you need to decrease the doses. Who are with acupuncture you will be able to solve your problems or, in the worst in the cases, the risk won't run of worsening or of having to face colateral effects of some drugs that are not tolerated by the organism.

On the other hand, the acupuncture is of great utility in the treatment of gynecological different problems. For example, in case alterations take place in the menstrual cycle: menstruation (amenorrhea) absence, menstruation with retardation (oligomenorrhea), frequent menstruation in excess (polimenorrea), blood losses between one and another cycle (metorrhagia) or painful (dismenorrea) menstruation.

You are also suitable to alleviate the premenstrual symptoms, retention of liquids in the tissues, mammary pressure, headache and sensation of edginess that precede to the menstruation.

Also, you are very useful to combat the syndrome climatérico, characterized by hot flash sensations, dryness vaginal, different sleep disorders, sensation of irritability and all those symptoms that, in general, the woman suffers in the hall of the menopause.

In obstetrics you can use to combat the nauseas and the vomits during the pregnancy, to alleviate the shoulder pain, swelling in the legs, hemorrhoidss and chronic cystitis.

After the childbirth it is very suitable in all the questions related with the nursing.

The points more used by your effectiveness from the gynecological point of view, they concentrate mainly throughout the kidney, the organ that, according to the Chinese medicine, you control the operation of the adrenal glands, the hypophysis, the ovaries and the uterus (the points are, mainly two, located around the interior ankle joint of the ankle).

You are also very important a point localized in the meridian of the Spleen and the Pancreas that he/she are four fingers above the ankle, in the interior part of the leg.

For the dysfunctions of the genital feminine apparatus, different points are used located in the meridian of the Gall bladder and (in the shoulder, next to the second lumbar vertebra) envelope the meridian Vessel Concepción (three fingers above the center of the pubis).

To these points they can associate other that intervene in a more direct way in feature of the field to try or of patient's class.