Acupressure is an ancient Chinese healing method, which involves applying pressure to certain meridian points on the body to relieve pain. The human body has fourteen meridians that carry energy throughout the body. These meridians start at the fingertips and connect to the brain and then connect to the organ associated with the specific meridian. ...
An Electric Under Blanket provides a constant and gentle heat from the shoulders to feet. The stiff and painful joints, affected by arthritis, are relieved. Heat is useful to decrease pain, ease muscle spasm, increase stretching capability of muscles and enhance blood circulation at the joint. The application of heat expands the blood vessels and r...
Arthritis is a very old disease. In an effort to overcome it, many ancient remedies have been in existence.
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The Romans, French and the British used paraffin wax as a heat-inducing introduction to massage. Paraffin therapy provides lubrication and removes the excess fluid from surrounding tissue. In this way it reduces p...
Acupuncture has become one of the most popular and accepted as unconventional therapies. An estimated 15 million people have tried this needle therapy. It is offered in many chronic pain clinics and is covered by some insurers and managed heath organizations too. The World Health Organization recommends it for more than 40 conditions as diverse as ...
We all know something about biorhythms. Basically, a biorhythm is an internal clock that regulates our bodies in relation to the daily positions of the sun, and the monthly positions of the moon. This can be seen in the time it takes our bodies to adjust to small changes, such as the changes of daylight savings time, or in large changes, such as je...
Nearly all of us have grown up with the same kind of medical treatments, and go to the doctor when we have a sore throat or a sore foot. American doctors, and in general, western medicine, have always been interested in the structure of the body, and how each individual organ structure should look when it is healthy. The tools western medicine have...
The ancient Chinese considered harmony to be the goal of our lives as individuals, and also as a society. When harmony is disturbed in our physical or emotional lives, it is restored by the use of acupuncture. Harmony is a continual balancing act between opposites: opposites in color, in energy, in actions, etc. This idea of opposites is seen even ...
It is surprising to many people that a large and growing number of traditional physicians support the use of and practice of acupuncture techniques. The American Academy of Medical Acupuncture was organized by physicians who want to further the use of acupuncture in regular medical treatment. The Academy was founded nearly twenty years ago by a gro...
When you visit an acupuncture clinic, you may get treatment and feel much better without ever knowing anything about the philosophy behind acupuncture, and that is fine. However, your acupuncture practitioner knows a vast amount of information that is not only interesting, but will help you maintain your health. One area that is particularly intere...
Chinese medicine is thousands of years old. The earliest recorded use of acupuncture is from the reign of the Yellow Emperor, and is supposed to be from about 2600 BC. The ancient Chinese noticed that certain areas of the skin became more sensitive when a person had a certain health problem. Over time, the Chinese started recording the location of ...