AcuTreatment – Acupressure & Acupuncture: Cure Without Medicine – Page 6 – Acu Treatment. Acupressure and Acupuncture is a natural method of healing, achieved by pressing various specific points in our body. It requires no medicines and has no bad side effects.

Stroke

Posted by Acutreatment September 1st, 2015 12:02 AM on Acupuncture.

A 2014 overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses found that the evidence does not demonstrate acupuncture helps reduce the rates of death or disability after a stroke or improve other aspects of stroke recovery, such as poststroke motor dysfunction, butMore...

Rheumatological conditions

Posted by Acutreatment August 31st, 2015 12:02 AM on Acupuncture.

A 2013 Cochrane review found low to moderate evidence that acupuncture improves pain and stiffness in treating people with fibromyalgia compared with no treatment and standard care. A 2012 review found "there is insufficient evidence to recommend acupuncture for theMore...

Fertility and childbirth

Posted by Acutreatment August 30th, 2015 12:02 AM on Acupuncture.

A 2014 systematic review and meta-analysis found poor quality evidence for use of acupuncture in infertile men to improve sperm motility, sperm concentration, and the pregnancy rate; the evidence was rated as insufficient to draw any conclusion regarding efficacy. AMore...

Cancer-related conditions

Posted by Acutreatment August 29th, 2015 12:02 AM on Acupuncture.

Acupuncture is a component of the health care system of China that can be traced back at least 2,500 years. The general theory of acupuncture is based on the premise that there are patterns of energy flow through the body that are essential for health. Disruptions of this flow are believed to be responsible for disease. Acupuncture may, it has been theorized, correct imbalances of flow at identifiable points close to the skin. The practice of acupuncture to treat identifiable path physiological (disease) conditions in American medicine was rare until the visit of President Richard M. Nixon to China in 1972. Since that time, there has been an explosion of interest in the United States and Europe in the application of the technique of acupuncture to Western medicine. Acupuncture is a family of procedures involving stimulation of anatomical locations on or in the skin by a variety of techniques. There are a variety of approaches to diagnosis and treatment in American acupuncture that incorporates medical traditions from China, Japan, Korea, and other countries. The most thoroughly studied mechanism of stimulation of acupuncture points employs penetration of the skin by thin, solid, metallic needles, which are manipulated manually or by electrical stimulation.

A 2012 systematic review of randomised clinical trials (RCTs) using acupuncture in the treatment of cancer pain found that the number and quality of RCTs was too low to draw definite conclusions. A 2011 Cochrane review found that there isMore...

Allergies

Posted by Acutreatment August 28th, 2015 12:02 AM on Acupuncture.

Acupuncture is an unproven treatment for allergic-immunologic conditions. A 2015 meta-analysis suggests that acupuncture might be a good option for people with allergic rhinitis(AR), and a number of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) support the use of acupuncture for AR and itch. There is some evidence thatMore...

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