WHAT IS ACUPUNCTURE AND WHAT DOES IT DO?!


Question: WHAT IS ACUPUNCTURE AND WHAT DOES IT DO.?
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Acupuncture can treat a huge range of medical ailments. it uses pins placed in to your skin at pacific points of your body. it helps things like back pain etc etc etc.Health Question & Answer

Not a lot to be perfectly honest. Just to add onto what my love Dr Frank has said;

Acupuncture is based on a metaphysical concept of which there is no plausible scientific rationale. Acupuncture is a pseudoscience. Blind over studies have been carried out and have shown acupuncture, in clinical trials to be no more than a placebo effect.

In answer to your question. Acupuncture is one of China's traditional medicines. Basically the objective is to restore the balance of the universal energy Qi in the body. This is done through the application of fine needles into various strategic points on the body to balance the Yin and Yang, which is supposed to restore harmony. Some acupuncturists claim they can cure certain illnesses and come claim it aids pain management.

Most evidence has dismissed the idea of acupuncture aiding pain relief as anecdotal. In blind over studies it was again proven to be no more beneficial than a placebo. There are small scale studies that seem to show acupuncture aiding pain management, but it has been vastly over exaggerated and the effects were shown to be little more than a basic analgesic, this also was not proven.

Pain is always a subjective experience unique to the individual. It's always hard to measure. With regards to the small scale studies, one also has to take into account the 'experimental effect' which is similar to the placebo.Health Question & Answer

Acupanture is a treatment that uses needles inserted in meridian points (that don't exist) to direct your che (which doesn't exist) and unblocks energy flows through your body.... they don't exist either.

so what does it do.? well it makes you feel like you've taken a positive step towards curing your condition. therefore you report better symptoms. you go again because you feel good and then when your condition goes away eventually you attribute it to the Acupunture. you also tell your friends about how it worked wonders and spread the myth that it's an effective cure. this in my opinion is the main reason Alternative medicines exist.Health Question & Answer

hahaha, pacific points.? jesus, it's hard knowing there are people out there that talk like that.

here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture

come on, do some research.Health Question & Answer

It is an ineffective oriental technique involving insertion of needles. It has a dramatic placebo effect, but is no more effective than random needle insertions when tested in blind trials.Health Question & Answer



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