Is regular acupuncture good for your health?

Generally speaking, long-term acupuncture is not good. Generally speaking, it is its health care function, and it can be done once or twice a year. Doing acupuncture for a long time is harmful to human body. Usually, exercise and diet conditioning often have better effects. If it is sub-health, acupuncture conditioning is still possible.

Therapeutic effect of acupuncture and moxibustion

1, dredge meridians

The function of dredging meridians is to make blocked meridians unobstructed and exert their normal physiological functions, which is the most basic and direct therapeutic effect of acupuncture. Meridian "belongs to viscera in the interior and collaterals in the limbs in the exterior", and it is one of its main physiological functions to run qi and blood. The meridians are blocked, and the circulation of qi and blood is blocked. The clinical manifestations are pain, numbness, swelling, ecchymosis and other symptoms. Acupuncture selects corresponding acupoints, acupuncture techniques and pricking blood with triangular needles, so that the meridians are unobstructed and the qi and blood run normally.

2. Reconcile Yin and Yang

The role of acupuncture and moxibustion in harmonizing yin and yang is to change the body from an unbalanced state of yin and yang to a balanced state, which is the ultimate goal of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment. The mechanism of the disease is very complicated, but it can be summarized as yin-yang imbalance. The function of acupuncture to reconcile yin and yang is realized through the yin and yang properties of meridians, the compatibility of meridians and acupoints and acupuncture techniques.

3. Strengthen the body and eliminate evil spirits

The function of acupuncture and moxibustion is to help the human body maintain healthy qi and eliminate evil spirits. The process of disease occurrence, development and outcome is essentially a process of struggle between good and evil. Acupuncture treatment is to play its role in strengthening the body resistance and eliminating pathogenic factors.

Several points for attention in acupuncture and moxibustion;

1, people who are too tired, nervous and hungry are not suitable for acupuncture; The elderly and infirm should try to lie down, choose less suitable acupoints and use methods lightly.

2, pregnant women should not be too fierce acupuncture, abdomen, lumbosacral and parts that can cause uterine contraction, such as Hegu, Sanyinjiao, Kunlun and Yin Zhi. Acupuncture is prohibited.

3, patients with hemorrhagic diseases, or often spontaneous bleeding, not easy to stop bleeding after injury, not acupuncture.

4. Due to non-cooperation, needles are generally not kept. It is forbidden to stick needles at fontanel, Fengfu and Tumen points of infants.

5. Skin infections, ulcers, scars and tumors are not acupuncture.

6, patients with gastric ulcer eye area, chest and back, kidney area, neck and back, stomach, intestinal adhesion, intestinal obstruction, pubic joint urinary retention patients should master the depth and angle of acupuncture, direct acupuncture is prohibited, in order to prevent accidental damage to important organs.