What is the difference between acupuncture and electro-acupuncture, and what is the difference between them? Ladies and gentlemen, to solve this problem, we first have to explain what is called acupuncture and what is called electro-acupuncture. According to experts, acupuncture should be divided into acupuncture and moxibustion. And what most people generally think of as acupuncture is needling. It is the use of acupuncture needles in accordance with a certain angle into the patient's body, acupuncture process doctors use twisting and lifting and insertion and other acupuncture techniques to stimulate the body's acupuncture points, so as to achieve the purpose of the treatment of disease. Clinical medicine has proved that it can dredge the meridians and channels, harmonize yin and yang, and help correct and dispel evil.
As for electroacupuncture, it is a therapeutic method that appeared only in recent decades. To put it simply, it is the use of electro-acupuncture therapeutic apparatus, clamped on acupuncture needles, through a specific frequency, to play a corresponding role. Electroacupuncture therapy is a combination of acupuncture and electricity, the role of the human body meridian acupoints, in order to treat a variety of diseases of the therapeutic method, is a distinctive independent branch of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy.
According to experts, its main effects are: adjusting the body's physiological functions, pain relief, sedation, promoting qi and blood circulation, adjusting muscle tone and other effects. Its scope of application is: clinically commonly used in a variety of pain, paralysis and dysfunction of the heart, stomach, intestines, bladder, uterus and other organs, as well as epilepsy and injurious diseases of muscles, ligaments and joints, etc., and can be used for acupuncture anesthesia.
Their difference is: electro-acupuncture must need acupuncture needles into the human body acupuncture points to work, so electro-acupuncture and acupuncture are combined together in clinical use, electro-acupuncture can enhance the feeling of needles, enhance the therapeutic effect of acupuncture, especially for stroke, painful diseases, such as lumbago, arthralgia, acupuncture combined with electro-acupuncture effect is even better. Therefore, nowadays, acupuncture and electro-acupuncture are mostly used together in the acupuncture department. There are also some diseases that need to be regulated without electro-acupuncture, just use acupuncture alone, this situation is also in the clinic. To put it bluntly, acupuncture is purely manual, purely artificial, electro-acupuncture rely on machines, rely on electricity.