A Quick Fact About Acupuncture
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Acupuncture Chat Rooms a Place to Exchange Ideas
Very often a new treatment possibility can be a scary thing. A recommendation by your health care provider to begin an acupuncture treatment plan can be a worrisome thing to a patient who knows nothing about acupuncture. Many people like to research their treatment possibilities so that they understand exactly what options are open to them. Sometimes the best way to do this is by getting involved in chat rooms. With acupuncture there are many chat rooms that you can visit. They are a doorway to...
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Acupuncture is Highly Successful for Stopping Smoking
What do you do if you want to quit smoking but no matter what you have done you are not successful? Many people feel that the best way to quit is to slowly reduce the number of cigarettes smoked. But really this almost never works. Others believe that the way to do it is to go cold turkey, just finish that package of cigarettes sitting on your desk and do not buy any more. Most times that can work. Still others use the patch, but even that is not one hundred percent full proof. With so many people trying to quit smoking a method that is gaining acceptance is the use of acupuncture to help a person quit.
Acupuncture is the method by which a trained specialist inserts very thin needles in specific places to have very specific outcomes. The practice of using acupuncture to help with addictions goes back to the 1970s. The important part of this program is that those who come for treatment must truly want to give up smoking. They will not be successful if they are attending sessions to please a partner, parent or employer. Quitting smoking must be a strong desire not simply a passing whim.
It is more difficult to cure those who began smoking young. It is a known fact that eighty percent of Americans begin to smoke before they see their eighteenth birthday. Nonetheless with acupuncture the success rate is high. One study reported results that said that after the first week of daily treatments sixty percent of those who choose to stop smoking did. A further twenty five percent of those who remained also stopped. Follow-up a year later claimed that ninety percent of those who quit smoking with the help of acupuncture did not start smoking again. This is a good outcome.
The treatment is commonly done on points of the ear. The needles are gently inserted and then left in between fifteen and twenty minutes. As well, there are some body points that can be used but they are more often used when dealing with a person who wants to cut down slowly. The treatments seem to become effective quickly with it often taking only a few days before the taste of the cigarette becomes unpleasant to the person who at one time was a heavy smoker. Ear acupuncture is so beneficial that only ten percent of people do not respond favorably to this treatment.
In one study of three hundred smokers, two hundred and seventy quit smoking. Of them thirty complained that the cigarettes tasted awful, thirty others complained of nausea when smoking and another group of thirty said it made them feel hot. Of the two hundred and seventy treated by acupuncture only twenty five percent started smoking again.
Acupuncture is a non-intrusive inexpensive method of quitting smoking with a high success rate. Given that and the difficulty that so many people have even when they want to stop smoking it seems that it is an option worth trying.
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Discoveries in Acupuncture
01/09/2012
Acupuncture little better than "sham" for migraine
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Traditional Chinese acupuncture seems little better than a "sham" version of the procedure when it comes to preventing migraines, a study published Monday suggests. The findings, reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, add to a pattern commonly seen in studies on acupuncture and migraines. Many have found that people with migraines can get relief from ...
Acupuncture little better than "sham" for migraine
01/09/2012
Acupuncture little better than "sham" for migraine
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Traditional Chinese acupuncture seems little better than a "sham" version of the procedure when it comes to preventing migraines, a study published Monday suggests. The findings, reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, add to a pattern commonly seen in studies on acupuncture and migraines. Many have found that people with migraines can get relief from ...
Acupuncture little better than "sham" for migraine
02/07/2012
Acupuncture proves to be useful in treating pain
DEAR DOCTOR K: A friend keeps telling me to try acupuncture for my low back pain. But I don’t understand how a bunch of needles will help. Can you explain how acupuncture works?
Acupuncture proves to be useful in treating pain
01/30/2012
Does acupuncture boost IVF success?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Acupuncture may help some women conceive through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a new analysis of past research concludes. But the true benefit in the real world, if any, remains unclear. The technique has been used for millennia in traditional Chinese medicine, for a whole range of ills. Ten years ago, a study in Germany was the first clinical trial to report that ...
Does acupuncture boost IVF success?
01/30/2012
Does acupuncture boost IVF success?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Acupuncture may help some women conceive through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a new analysis of past research concludes. But the true benefit in the real world, if any, remains unclear. The technique has been used for millennia in traditional Chinese medicine, for a whole range of ills. Ten years ago, a study in Germany was the first clinical trial to report that ...
Does acupuncture boost IVF success?
01/30/2012
Acupuncture-enhanced treatment performs better than standard therapies alone
pain relief Benefits of acupuncture Good Housekeeping , February If the idea of being poked with needles sounds less than appealing, acupuncture may not be for you. But according to Good Housekeeping, new research shows that the needles help with pain relief in some cases. “German studies have shown that something is definitely going on, neurologically speaking, when acupuncture needles are in ...
Acupuncture-enhanced treatment performs better than standard therapies alone
02/07/2012
Acupuncture proves to be useful in treating pain
DEAR DOCTOR K: A friend keeps telling me to try acupuncture for my low back pain. But I don’t understand how a bunch of needles will help. Can you explain how acupuncture works?
Acupuncture proves to be useful in treating pain
01/30/2012
Does acupuncture boost IVF success?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Acupuncture may help some women conceive through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a new analysis of past research concludes. But the true benefit in the real world, if any, remains unclear. The technique has been used for millennia in traditional Chinese medicine, for a whole range of ills. Ten years ago, a study in Germany was the first clinical trial to report that ...
Does acupuncture boost IVF success?
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