How does acupuncture work for pain?

How does acupuncture work for pain?

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        People ask me how does acupuncture work? How could inserting a needle stop the pain? What is the theory behind it? From western point of view, inserting a needle recreate a trauma. The body recognizes the trauma, then send the leukocytes to the site start the repairing process. From acupuncture point of view, we clear the blood stasis and move the Qi. What does that mean?

      

       In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) theory, we have meridians and channels run up and down connect inside and outside our body. They are some deeper, some superficial but they all connect to each other. You can think they are like the freeways connect the cities. So, when accident happens on the freeway, it courses the traffic jam. Then, because one freeway is jam up then other connecting freeway all effected. The accident is here could be you pulling the muscle one day when you doing the exercise or you have toxic accumulate or simply woman has a problem of their menses. All of that create stagnation and lead to pain. The stagnation starts from retardation of the Qi, in western you can explain as a weak vital energy not be able to de toxic.

       Acupuncture is act like police come the site to clear up the accident and redirect the traffic. And the herbal medicine will continue the make sure the flow to all site clear. In TCM break up the stasis, move the Qi and blood is the principle of treating excess type of pain cause by stagnation or stasis. In order to balance the body function properly first we have to remove the obstruction then balance yin and yang to maintained body function properly.

       Acupuncture also helping release the endorphin which are group of hormones secreted in the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological function. It caused analogical effect which stop feeling the pain or easy the pain.