Renaud, 44, has been a licensed New York state acupuncturist since 2000. His office is at 485 Western Ave. inside the Acupuncture Balancing building, previously called Albany Classical Acupuncture. Nearby landmarks include the Mobil station and Citizen’s Bank.
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“Chinese medicine is a very hard thing for Westerners to understand,” Glenn said. “This is a practice that is more than 5,000 years old – based on the vital energy in the body.”
Glenn said the Chinese were meticulous record keepers that began with the cause and effect in the body. It is not magic or mystical, but rather a physiological response to the body. It is all about balance – the yin and the yang.
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Charleston chiropractor Paul Casingal added acupuncture to his medical toolbox because he believed it could help the terrible migraine headaches his 14-year-old daughter suffered. Indeed, the very first treatment in which Casingal gently inserted a half-dozen needles in his daughter’s head – needles she didn’t even feel – resulted in her pain decreasing by half in about 30 minutes. Subsequent treatments have actually eliminated her headaches. She hasn’t suffered a migraine in a year. “That’s when I had my ‘aha’ moment,” Casingal said. His chiropractic work had been helping patients with chronic pain, back and neck problems. By adding acupuncture, Casingal believed he could do more. “Everything I did before then helped them, but not as fast as acupuncture,” Casingal said. “Doing both together has been incredible in terms of helping my patients.”
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While plenty of people who receive acupuncture for the relief of chronic pain swear by its effectiveness, the western medical community has long remained skeptical of this increasingly popular alternative treatment. More and more research studies, however, are confirming the idea that acupuncture has its place in western medicine. The latest, a study out of the University Hospital in Essen, Germany, suggests that acupuncture transforms the way the brain processes pain.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers led by Dr. Nina Theysohn from the University Hospital’s department of diagnostic and interventional radiology and neuroradiology were able to observe the areas of the brain that typically deal with pain perception and response. By studying 18 healthy volunteers who received an electronic pain stimulus to their left ankles, radiologists discovered that when acupuncture needles were placed on the right side of the subjects’ bodies, the activation of the brain’s pain processing areas was substantially reduced.
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And it will provide food for thought for detractors of the ancient Chinese art, including many scientists. They claim the benefits of the practice are all in the mind and that patients benefit from the ‘placebo effect’ in which care, attention and the simple belief that the treatment will work lead to improvements in health.
The research team from the University Hospital in Essen, Germany, studied whether giving acupuncture affected how the brain reacted to electric shocks.
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It’s potentially hard to find any place where there is no arguing. Usually it’s the hostility within families that has given way to different forms of depression. When we dwell in the depth of its reasons, they are mainly insignificant. The Las Vegas domestic abuse attorney or the Las Vegas domestic violence attorney hears the similar stories everyday that results from this disturbance. Even when the problems of such people are lessened, they still require mental relaxation.
For that purpose, a growing practice is that of acupuncture. Though modern science is not still able to understand why actually acupuncture works, it has been proven to have significant healing effects. Once the acupuncture pins are inserted on the body, energy will start to circulate in a better way. Since the body is interconnected, so the acupuncture spots cannot be limited to little spots on the body, it casts its effects throughout the body.
You know quite well that acupuncture has its origin from the Chinese culture. They are people who have their own practices and beliefs which they happen to preserve and pass down from generation to generation. Acupuncture is also one such practice that has been maintained over the centuries. It happens to be one of their holistic practices that they practice in today’s world just as they used to in older times. The main idea of the Chinese acupuncture rests in the fact that balancing the whole energy inside the body is essential for establishing complete harmony within the body, mind and soul. You may be aware that some medical practitioners apply medical acupuncture to help in their surgeries however, the practices vary slightly from the ancient Chinese ones.
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GRIFFITH University School of Medicine study is hoping to help hay-fever sufferers with the prick of a needle.
John McDonald, a Southport acupuncturist of 40 years, and his research team are planning to reveal how acupuncture can treat irritating and chronic allergies via changes to the immune system.
Hay fever was more prevalent on the Gold Coast, where the allergy season was up to five times longer than the average two-month period of Melbourne, he said. This was because the Coast’s pollen season was longer.
About 15 per cent of Australians suffer from hay fever, commonly caused by grass pollen and dust mite.
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With acupuncture and moxibustion last week included on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list, their lesser-known compliments that don’t involve needles or breaking the skin and form the practice of zhenjiu, are also attracting attention.
“Although using needles is most common, there are other ways of zhenjiu to stimulate the points and meridians that work equally effective,” said Guo Changqing, professor of acupuncture and moxibustion at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.
During nearly three decades of teaching and treating patients using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) techniques, Guo, who is also a TCM doctor at Beijing’s Hong Yitang Hospital, said that alternatives such as ear acupressure, cupping and scrap-ing are methods of zhenjiu that were first recorded over 2,000 years ago in the ancient Chinese medical text Huangdi Neijing, also known as The Inner Canon of Huangdi.
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Atsuki Maeda pokes and needles his patients to health.
Literally. Maeda runs Maeda Acupuncture & Medical Therapy Group in Torrance, where he performs both Japanese and Chinese acupuncture.
While treating such symptoms as aches and pains, Maeda, 46, also uses acupuncture for stroke and dementia patients.
The Rolling Hills Estates resident has practiced acupuncture for 23 years, having trained in his native Japan as well as China.
What does your job entail?
I like to help people. I think the reason I became an acupuncturist and came to the U.S. is to use my knowledge to help people.
What do you use Chinese acupuncture for?
To treat stroke and dementia patients. It requires the Chinese way to manipulate the needle to stimulate the brain by activating blood flow to the brain to revive the damaged brain cells.
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A Griffith Health Institute research project is investigating how acupuncture helps to treat irritating and chronic allergies to potentially develop novel medicine for hay fever.
School of Medicine researcher John McDonald said previous research had shown that acupuncture helped to treat allergy and hay fever symptoms, but had not studied how it did this.
“As a practicing acupuncturist for 40 years, I have seen how effectively acupuncture can improve allergic conditions,” Mr McDonald said.
“However there is little understanding about acupuncture’s effects on our immune and nervous systems.”
More than 3.17 million Australians or 15.1 per cent of the population suffer from hay fever, commonly caused by grass pollen and dust mite.
Mr McDonald said current medication included antihistamines, which were only effective in treating early stages of the allergic response.
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