This Acupuncture Directory Page will direct you to all relevant acupuncture information, starting with pages where you can find an acupuncturist to treat your health concerns.
Acupuncture, being a Traditional Chinese Medicine can not be compared with a Western approach to Health and Diseases. Traditionally, Acupuncture is a much more holistic type of medicine. Your acupuncture practitioner will see you as a whole person and treat you accordingly, whereas a western trained Doctor will concentrate mainly on one or two presenting symptoms.
This tunnel vision approach of the mediacal system is causing more and more longstanding health problems.
This is easily explained by an example.
For a moment, imagine you visit a Medical Doctor, a General Practitioner, with a pain in your wrist joint. The Doctor will treat just your wrist, nothing else, there seems to be no concern, why someone is presenting with such a problem. It is, as if the Doctor has forgotten the rest of the person. Don't get me wrong, I am not blaming the Doctor, he or she may be a fantastic person, with amazing medical and diagnostic skills and know how, however, a Doctor has been trained a certain way, which unfortunately is not considering deeper causative factors, and treatment will most likely consist of a prescribed drug for this particular symptom, which at it's best, is a very general treatment, and unfortunately will not lead to a cure.
Why would this lead to the above mentioned long standing health problems?
The medical system treats only what is apparently important at this very moment. A painful wrist, is not a problem from lack of painkillers. Treating it with painkillers or anti-inflammatory drugs, may suppress the pain for a while, but the real problem will most likely get worse. If it does, the drugs will be increased .. till nothing can be done anymore.. but maybe a surgical intervention.
With other words, the medical system waits till the disease has manifested, before any type of treatment can be applied, and treatments are usually for maintenance not a cure. With other words, most diseases are maintained with prescription drugs.
Is that a good thing?
Drug companies would think it is. People which chronic diseases find it beneficial as well, not out of choice, but simply because within the medical system there is nothing else available. Obviously this type of treatment has to catch up with us sooner or later. Hospitals are crowded, and certainly not because medical treatment has improved, but because it hasn't, it has create more chronic sick people.
The message is surprisingly simple, it is not enough to treat a symptom, and it is not enough to cut out a cancer, something has to be done to the persons health, not just against a persons disease.
An Acupuncturist sees you as a whole person, you are not presenting just your sore wrist, you present yourself as a person who has a sore wrist, and there will be causative factors which the Acupuncturist may well be able to balance, with the end result being, that the pain in the wrist has disappeared.
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