Acupuncture is best known for the treatment of painful conditions such as headaches, back pain, sciatica, stiff shoulder, whiplash, tendinitis etc. Acupuncture is also used successfully for a wide range of physical or mental disorders such as arthritis, TMJ, facial palsy, paralysis, allergy, asthma, acne, gastritis, colitis, menstrual or sexual problems, PMS, infertility, anxiety, fatigue, depression, insomnia, running ear, and other ailments which have not responded to the medical and even surgical therapies, or for conditions for which the patient is sensitive to or does not want various medications. Acupuncture for smoking cessation has become popular because of its effectiveness.
Health is a matter of balance.
Human being are complex bioelectric and automatic control systems. Unbalance of the body can reflect on the definite areas or points of the body surface such as changes of sensitivity or electric resistance of the skin. So-called meridians are essentially the connecting pathways between different parts of the body, the upper and the lower, the left and the right, the internal organs and the body surface. In Western medicine, similar phenomenon is recognized as the referred pain areas and used to help make diagnosis. The meridian system not only has more recognition about the internal connection of the body than the referred pain areas, but also works through bi-direction.