| Oriental therapeutic devices like acupuncture have | | | | functioning is smooth. Of course twenty years |
| long been in practice in the east. With the advent of | | | | before people in the west thought that this was |
| globalization and heightened disorders amongst | | | | impossibility. But with the widespread success of this |
| populations all over the world, western science is | | | | curative measure, the westerners have sat up and |
| making space for eastern curative measures as they | | | | taken notice and themselves become big fans of this |
| are often proving to be effective enough to be tried | | | | technique. Insurance companies too are ready to |
| regularly. The additional advantage of something like, | | | | cover this treatment and provide it with due |
| let's say, acupuncture is that it does not require | | | | recognition. |
| intake of chemicals and can treat a wide variety of | | | | The clear successes that one could associate with |
| things ranging from stress to emotional duress. | | | | acupuncture are, a better immunity system, |
| This process of acupuncture requires particular | | | | improved and boosted, a steep fall in the levels of |
| regions of the body being pierced gently with long | | | | stress experienced, pain reduction like never before, |
| needles. The process can be executed in different | | | | huge enhancement of strength and energy, qualified |
| ways depending on the angle of the insertion and the | | | | complement to other medications and so no side |
| type of needle used. This way it can yield positive | | | | effects. Others also take help of acupuncture to cut |
| results in the treatment of many an ailment. The idea | | | | down on weight and cellulite. The technique can act |
| is to cleanse one's body and inscribe some positive | | | | as prevention too and thus need not be used only |
| energy in it. | | | | when ill. |
| What do the Chinese have to say with this ingenious | | | | An HIV+ person has a certain problem where the |
| procedure? Very simply that given the passive yin | | | | Candida grows out of control in the body's intestinal |
| and the active yang force in the body, there is a | | | | flora where in turn thus the balance has to be |
| need to balance the both of them. There is also the | | | | brought back. Acupuncture can intervene in such a |
| Qi energy passing through meridians in the body, | | | | problem and be used to restore the lost balance by |
| meridians describing presence of one or more organs. | | | | reducing overgrowth of yeast. Combined with a |
| When Qi is disturbed then the balance between yin | | | | Candida diet it has thus been known to be very |
| and yang is disrupted too causing disorders in the | | | | effective for AIDS victims as well. |
| body. Thus an avenue to Qi is south via the 400 | | | | The idea here is to gear up the positive energy flow |
| different acupuncture points in the body that could | | | | in the body. Though this has no clear counterpart in |
| be pierced to access the flows of energy through | | | | western scientific vocabularies, it is nonetheless |
| the meridians. Thus, they are brought back on track | | | | effective and gaining trust of people all around the |
| ensuring the restoration of the proper functioning of | | | | world. Acupuncture is here to stay. |
| the body. | | | | Whether or not you believe in the ying and yan and |
| What is done in acupuncture is that the energy flow | | | | positive life forces that may exist within the body, |
| is restored to the meridians respectively. When the | | | | you cannot discount the thousands of people who |
| needle is placed at a particular point of the body, it is | | | | have been treated successfully with acupuncture and |
| to deflect the energy flow in some way to the illness | | | | now swear by it for relief of ailments. |
| center so that the stress there is relaxed and | | | | |