A recent small clinical experiment shows that acupuncture may provide important health benefits for people suffering from COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Acupuncture is usually used as an adjunct treatment to help offset labored breathing after exertion. This is the biggest problem facing patients with COPD. COPD is actually a comprehensive term that includes all lung conditions that obstruct the respiratory tract.
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Besides relieving pain in some patients, acupuncture has also shown to ameliorate itchy eyes and sneezing based on the findings of recent studies.
The sniffles caused by seasonal allergies can plague a lot of people. For relief, most of them turn to antihistamines. But when these medications do not work, some will try alternative forms of treatment such as acupuncture. This Eastern healing modality uses … Continue reading
Acupuncture is an effective treatment for Crohn’s disease, a recent study has found out. This conclusion was reached by researchers from the Shanghai Research Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion and the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The results of their study were printed in the Journal of Acupuncture and Tuina Science. The aim of the study was to see if acupuncture was aviable treatment … Continue reading