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Acupuncture is an ancient way of healing over 5000 years old. The first written knowledge about Acupuncture is found in the Nei Jing, a book in which the Chinese Yellow Emperor Huang Ti interrogates his doctors about healing. Acupuncture is based on the yin/yang theory mentioned in Taoist philosophy. The energy everything possesses – The QI – is divided in Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang are each others opposite and one cannot exist without the other. Yin is female, static, passive, cold while Yang is male, dynamic, active and warm. Where there is balance between Yin and Yang the body is healthy, when there is no balance there is sickness. Acupuncture can restore the balance of QI and help the body to recover.
Acupuncture can treat almost every condition in the body, as long as the body is intact. We call that functional diseases. The body is intact, but it doesn’t function as it should. Examples are migraine, asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, PMS, indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, allergy, etc. Acupuncture is especially very effective in the treatment of pain, both chronic and acute. Our body produces it’s own pain killers (endorphins) and anti-inflammatories (steroids). These natural chemicals are up to 100 times stronger than their artificially produced and added equivalents, they have no side effects and are non addictive. A number of Acupuncture points are extremely effective in stimulating the production of these chemicals. This way Acupuncture helps building up the immune system of the body. That is also the reason why acupuncture can be beneficial to so many different conditions in the body. At the Okanagan Acupuncture Centre we combine the ancient vision of yin and yang with the modern insights of endorphin production. Here is a list of diseases, symptoms or conditions that has been compiled by the World Health Organisation for which acupuncture therapy has been tested in controlled clinical trials and has been proved to be an effective treatment:
The rule says: the longer the disease or injury exists the longer the treatment. Most cases require between 1 and 15 treatments. Vary chronic cases (20 years and longer) can go up to 50 treatments. Unfortunately it is not very well known among the public that acute cases react very quick on the treatment. The sooner people come in for treatment the better the results. Children react very fast on a treatment. A treatment takes about one hour.
We use very thin needles that will penetrate the skin very easily and the only thing you feel is a light mosquito bite and sometimes not even that. We can stimulate the needles with a low frequency current that will feel comfortable. Sometimes it is necessary to complement the treatment with herbal medication.
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