Pain Management

Acupuncture Provides Pain Relief for Many Patients

Acupuncture is an ancient practice in which very fine sterile needles are inserted into the skin at strategic points on the body to relieve pain and treat disease. The Chinese developed acupuncture over 2500 years ago with the belief that energy flows through channels between the surface of the body and internal organs.

Chinese medicine maintains that the more than 2,000 acupuncture points on the human body connect with 12 main and eight secondary “meridians” or channels. Pain and disease are the result of these channels becoming blocked. By placing needles at various points on the channels, energy balance can be restored. When balance is restored health is achieved.

Western medicine’s view is that the placement of acupuncture needles at specific pain points releases endorphins and opioids, the body’s natural painkillers. It is believed that immune system cells as well as neurotransmitters and neurohormones in the brain are also stimulated. Research has shown that glucose and other bloodstream chemicals become elevated after acupuncture.

NAET , Nambudripad's Allergy Ellimination Technique

Whether you're allergic to peanuts or shellfish, ragweed or dog dander doesn't matter. Asan acupuncturist I treat the individual, not the symptoms. I understand that allergy symptoms are a way of expressing a deeper imbalance in a person's system.

How acupuncture works to control allergies isn't exactly known. However, instead of using chemicals like an antihistamine to control an allergic reaction, acupuncture works with the person's internal pharmacy.

Stimulation of acupuncture point with or without needles act like switches in the energy circuits of the body. Imagine the body as the computer and the energy system as the software program. NAET can "re-program" the body so it doesn't react to pollen or dog dander or peanuts as if they were harmful substances.

How long someone receives treatment for allergies depends again on the individual. Typically, allergy sufferers go twice weekly for the first several treatments. Allergens are treated one at a time. Often a single treatment is enough to desensitize one allergen. Someone with a mild to moderate number of allergies might require 15-20 visits.

Common allergies successfully treated with this approach include egg, milk, peanuts, penicillin, aspirin, mushrooms, shellfish, latex, grass, ragweed, flowers, perfume, animal dander, animal epithelial, make-up, chemicals, cigarette smoke, pathogens, heat, cold, and other environmental agents.