Acupuncture: A Complementary Medical Practice

An acupuncture is a complementary medical practice that entails stimulating certain points on the body, most often with a needle penetrating the skin, to alleviate pain or to help treat various health conditions. Acupuncture is used to treat other musculoskeletal conditions and pain conditions, including knee pain, low back pain, neck pain, morning sickness, headache, sprain…etc.

The origin of acupuncture is, a long time ago, a Chinese soldier was wounded in a war. This soldier was wounded in his arm with an arduous and brittle effect. He went to his doctor, who couldn’t seem to find a cure at all. In conclusion, he was told he had, what became known as a frozen shoulder. Many years later, there was another battle and this same soldier was wounded once again, except this time he was wounded in the leg with an arrow. For some peculiar reason, this arrow that had been shot in his leg cured his frozen shoulder. As this soldier told his doctor, another wounded soldier who had the same problem, overheard and was anxious to endeavor this conjecture. The doctor had been treating this patient for months now and thought it wouldn’t hurt to try. So, he took an arrow at a comparatively same expanse and guardedly jabbed it into his leg. Exceptionally, this worked so the doctor analyzed this theory with other patients and so it was

There are two serious adverse effects to consider, which are the first is an infection. The infection could be a contracting disease such as hepatitis, which could be caused by re-using needles that weren’t properly sterilized. The second is that needles could puncture nerve or organ. An example, needling at the base of the skull has a possibility of leading to brain damage, and there are several reported cases on punctured lungs. Overall, needling at this point is widely safe due to the sternum protects the