A conversation about acupuncture shouldn’t begin with talk of the hair-thin needles or stimulation of the energy within us referred to as Qi, but rather should start with observation and balance.
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More than 2500 years ago healers observed that patients’ complaints were almost always linked to the environments they lived and worked in and the season’s gradual changes. An illness, they reasoned, was the result of an emotional or physical disharmony or imbalance within a patient that made him or her suceptible to attack. In this view a woman working in a cold field all day or a man sleeping in a hot, dry room each night were anticipated to show different signs and symptoms even if they complained of the same illness.
Because of this understanding of the causes of illness acupuncture patients are asked many specific questions about the nature of their condition. For instance, is your headache or backache pain dull, stabbing, or empty? Does your insomnia mean trouble initially falling asleep or is the problem an inability to sleep the whole night? Is an ache or illness worse with changes in the weather? With this information an acupuncturist determines how an illness uniquely affects each patient and then tailors treatment to that person’s needs.
Sterile, one-use needles are inserted at specific acupuncture points and manipulated according to a treatment plan that may call for warming or cooling a patient, building up energy to fight a disease, or soothing anxiety that causes panic attacks without warning. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) the true indication of good health is adaptability; to the seasons, to the weather, to the physical and emotional bumps we all encounter on the road through life. Balance and harmony combine to assure us of adaptability and this, in turn, provides a much smoother ride.