Disease Symptoms

Acupuncture is an ancient art of Chinese medicine. Is a technique of inserting and manipulating fine needles into specific body points in order to relieve pain and for therapeutic purposes. There are many approaches to learning and practicing it. Medical acupuncture is the term used to describe acupuncture performed by a physician trained and licensed in Western medicine, which has also been through training in acupuncture as a specialty practice. This doctor or health care professional can use either approach, or a combination thereof, to treat a dysfunction or disease.

How has medical acupuncture

Study of traditional Chinese medicine has a long time. That is why acupuncture was established Western medical professionals who want to use acupuncture techniques along with the medical approach. Medical acupuncture was created for medical doctors, physiotherapists, chiropractors and osteopaths. The person learns about acupuncture is known as acupuncturists. The term alternative medicine is generally used in the modern Western world encompasses any healing practice that is not within the scope of conventional medicine. Acupuncture is considered as one such alternative medical technique. Medical acupuncture is an attempt by the evidence-based medicine to understand the effects of acupuncture from a Western perspective, scientific and not in the paradigm of traditional Chinese medicine.

How different doctors classical acupuncture acupuncture

Medical acupuncture is a modern form of acupuncture that has been developed by physicians in the Western world. Medical acupuncture in the traditional theory of meridians and points are ignored altogether or is radically reinterpreted because supposedly no physical basis verifiable anatomical or histological diagnosis of the existence of acupuncture points or meridians. Also in the case of medical acupuncture the concept of disease arising from the modern Western disease instead of Chinese medical theory which predates the use of scientific method. Finally, medical acupuncture means work through the Western biomedical understanding.

World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation

The following are the conditions for which acupuncture is recommended by WHO
# Respiratory diseases such as acute sinusitis, acute rhinitis, tonsillitis, common cold, acute.

# Bronchopulmonary diseases such as acute bronchitis, bronchial asthma.

# Eye disorders such as acute conjunctivitis, myopia, cataract (without complications), central retinitis.

# Disorders of the oral cavity, such as toothache, pain after tooth extraction, gingivitis, pharyngitis.

# Orthopedic disorders such as Humeroscapularis periathritis, tennis elbow, sciatica, low back pain, rheumatoid arthristis.

# Gastrointestinal disorders such as spasms of the esophagus and cardia, hiccups, gastrophosis, acute and chronic gastritis, gastric hyperacidity, chronic duodenal ulcer, acute and chronic colitis, acute bacterial dysentery, diarrhea, paralytic ileus.

# Neurological disorders such as headache, migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, facial paralysis, paralysis after stroke, peripheral neuropathy, paralysis caused by poliomyelitis, Meniere’s syndrome, neurogenic bladder dysfunction, nocturnal enuresis, neuralgia intercostal.

Modern explanation

Two attempts of Western medical explanation on the mechanism of acupuncture.
# The gate theory of pain, Melzack and Patrick Wall, Robert, which postulates the existence of gates or filters in the spinal cord that can modulate the transmission of pain information in the nervous system.

# The second explanation is based on the existence of natural opiatus in the central nervous system and other body parts. Is the pain relief substances such as endorphins and enkephalins.