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Keeping the Chi Energy Flowing with Acupuncture & Healthy Living


Acupuncture has a long history of helping people live their lives with high energy while enjoying an excellent level of health. People working with a professional acupuncturist become very familiar with how the body and the mind work in harmony as well as how chi (also called qi), the universal life energy, affects the body.
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A Positive Attitude Brings a Better Chance of Acupuncture Success!


High hopes and great expectations when going into any endeavor probably offers the best potential to bring about the most positive results. According to a recent study published in the journal called Pain, this is certainly true in the case of Acupuncture.
Actual Acupuncture was compared to sham (minimal Acupuncture) treatment in the cases of 864 [...]

Autism, Acupuncture, and Traditional Chinese Medicine


Autism is characterized by profound disturbance in the emergence of social relations, apparent as early as the first months of life and almost always by age three years (1). Disturbances in brain maturation appear to be a cause of this syndrome, which may be exacerbated by deficiencies in certain nutrients (e.g., vitamin B6, magnesium, [...]

Reduce Fatigue with Acupuncture and Acupressure


Blockages of energy flows in the body have long been recognized by practitioners of Chinese medicine as the cause of reduced health and disease. This “life energy” that flows through the body, known as Qi (pronounced chee) is responsible for illness when it is not flowing properly. Restoring the natural flow of Qi returns the [...]

Blood Pressure Reacts Favorably to Regular Acupuncture Treatments


People who have concerns about their blood pressure, but who are adverse to the use of drugs to alter their condition may wish to consider a regular schedule of Acupuncture treat­ments to help handle hypertension.
A new study involving 160 people was recently conducted by researchers from the University of Erlangen in Germany and Nanjing University [...]