L’acupuncture it is a wellness therapy. This year, in particular, we heard about it as a complementary solution to treat long covid side effects. It is a therapeutic approach that originates in traditional Chinese medicine and which can be used in many areas, fromoncology to mitigate the pain caused by the treatments, to the aesthetic medicine with regenerative purposes for the skin.
«Acupuncture is a method that through the placement of metal needles modulates the Qi energy flow that passes through the meridians.
The acupoints are precise areas of the skin in correspondence with the meridians, identified through precise anatomical references “, explains Dr. Cosetta Ugolini, physiatrist and acupuncturist, medical director in a public hospital in Milan. «We can imagine the meridians as“ virtual vessels ”that overlap the venous, lymphatic and arterial ones. They represent a communication network that passes over the entire surface of the body. Their function is to connect organs and viscera with the rest of the body, creating an energy network. Through the positioning of the needles in the superficial acupoints we obtain the stimulation of the structures that are found in depth. The meridians have never been identified from an anatomical point of view, but a French study dating back to the late 1990s was able to outline a path starting from the injection of a contrast liquid near an acupoint “, says doctor Ugolini.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, the Qi represents the life energy of the individual. The general well-being of the organism depends on the correct flow of this energy, while the disturbances are caused by the block. Through acupuncture correct flow can be restored.
THE BENEFITS OF ACUPUNCTURE
«L’acupuncture is a method that only doctors can do and its most interesting aspect is theholistic approach to the patient, a global approach that takes into consideration the person as a whole, also keeping in mind the variables that depend on the external environment. In this sense, it responds to the definition that WHO has given of health as a state of general psycho-physical well-being. Acupuncture was born as a form of prevention to make people feel good and not induce a state of disease, today it is also a therapeutic tool».
L’acupuncture it integrates with Western medicine because it manages to treat in a functional scope the ailments that Western medicine considers to be due to stress. «Chinese medicine identifies the nature of some disorders, which would not be detected by traditional instrumental examinations, through medical history data and the analysis of symptoms. An acupuncture therapy always includes the treatment ofPower supply which has an important therapeutic value in traditional Chinese medicine, with the aim of improving the lifestyle as a whole ”, explains the expert.
WHEN TO DO ACUPUNCTURE
It is recommended for the treatment of pain; for example in the case of premenstrual syndrome, or to control the symptoms of menopause. For i osteoarticular pain, in case of breech fetus in pregnancy, in the neurological field to solve DISORDERS, ed migraine, always associated with food indications. It is therapeutic in case of fire of saint Anthony, from gonalgia, sciatica, shoulder pain: «L’acupuncture it works if the indication for which it is used is correct. If not, it’s a useful diagnostic tool that suggests taking a step back and finding the real cause of the problem. ‘
HOW THE THERAPEUTIC PATH WORKS
“On the first visit, if I think there is one functional problem and not specific anatomical damage, I propose to the patient an acupuncture course, painless because the needles are coated with silicone and do not hurt, and without side effects. Usually the treatment is performed once a week and takes from five to ten sessions and I also suggest some dietary precautions. L’acupuncture it is a natural method, does not require drugs, allows pain control and can be decisive. It allows you to treat the person globally, inducing general well-being if there are no pathologies that require traditional treatments ”, concludes Dr. Ugolini.
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