Released on = May 11, 2006, 9:58 pm

Press Release Author = AcupunctureGold.com

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = Anxiety, that feeling of terrible nagging worry, can make
your life truly miserable. Instead of using tranquilizers, alcohol, or street drugs
to relieve anxiety, now acupuncture has shown it can offer real help for anxiety.

Press Release Body = Traditional medicine primarily uses relatively strong drugs to
bring relief to those who have a great degree of anxiety. While the drugs do provide
a degree of relief, some of the complications make one wonder if it is really
worthwhile.

There is another way, however, and this article will show you how acupuncture can
help anxiety.

Acupuncture In The United States

The Food and Drug Administration in 1996 officially welcomed acupuncture into the
United States. Since that time, many have found it to be beneficial in quite a
variety of ways, including for anxiety.

Many who practice the use of acupuncture are medical doctors who now combine it, or
some of it, into their medical practice. There are now over 20,000 certified
practitioners in the United States.

While it has been tested both in the United States and England, it still remains a
little on the outside - partly because people don\'t like needles. Alternatives to
the needles now use more hi-tech methods - acupressure and mild lasers, which they
say has about the same effect.

How Does It Work?

The basic idea of how it works is a little foreign to the minds of those of us who
live in the West. Still, the idea is interesting. They believe that the body, when
healthy, allows the free flow of energy, called qi (chi) throughout the body.

The energy, they say, flows through 12 channels, called meridians, where the streams
of chi come together and intersect. When there is a restriction of chi, the result
are symptoms, and health problems.

Acupuncture, through the use of the needles, works on those points where the
channels intersect, to unblock the flow of chi.

Those of us that live over on this side of the ocean might replace chi with the
words life-force. With that restoration of the proper flow of the life force, the
body can then begin to use its natural self-healing mechanisms. Acupuncture
specialists often also use herbal remedies as part of a treatment program.

Treating Anxiety

Many of the treatments for anxiety largely involve the acupuncture points found on
the ear. However, studies have shown, with various control groups, that only
particular areas of the ear bring any noticeable difference.

But the differences were rather amazing.

While medical doctors still do not exactly know why it works, they do know that
acupuncture produces measurable benefits.

The patients that had the correct areas of the ear needled, were those that had a
significant reduction in anxiety and stress-levels.

Acupuncture works on both the physical body and the emotions to bring about a
general state of well-being.

Acupuncture Treatments

A couple of nice things about acupuncture are:

· Many insurance companies now cover it
· It is drug free
· It is a form of natural healing

The average treatment can last anywhere from a couple of minutes, up to about an
hour - with no negative after-effects.


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