Acupuncture

This therapy makes use of needles to re-establish the correct energy flows in the body. These needles act on certain points (meridians) which relate to the organ being treated.

This is a natural remedy to stimulate the immune system to combat pain, depression and high blood pressure.
The principles and methods of acupuncture originate in ancient Chinese medicine.
 

I principi e i metodi dell’agopuntura risalgono all'antica medicina cinese.

In the ancient Chinese world they believed that the body contained a vital energy, which ran along thirteen channels. The human body could therefore be sub-divided and studied using an anatomical map which charted these presumed energy flows. The human organism was thought to reproduce the entire universe inside itself, regulated according to the laws of ancient cosmology. This proposed the existence of two opposing, yet balanced forces, the yang, representing the masculine energy of heat, light and the solar system, and the yin, which corresponded to inactivity, femininity, coldness, night, the moon cycle and the dark.

According to whether one or other of these was predominant in the organism an illness could occur: in other words a situation of disequilibrium between the forces. In the course of the development of Chinese medical practice it was found that by applying instruments such as needles to certain points on the skin which corresponded to these channels, one could either generate the missing energy in the body or take away the excess.

Recent recognition of this branch of medicine by the World Health Organization has resolved some of the concerns of the medical world and nowadays, even in Italy, acupuncture is taught at university and practised in public hospitals. Neurological observations and statistics on results from treatment are now accorded a recognition which was lacking in the past. There is new interest regarding the part that neuro-stimulation of the skin can play in pain therapy.

Acupuncture appears to be effective in combating certain allergic conditions such as rhynitis, asthma, and dermatosis, and certain inflammatory illnesses such as sinusitis, gastritis and bronchitis. There have also been good results in treating certain disturbances of the nervous system, including insomnia, cephalea, anorexia, amenorrhea, depression, impotence and tabagism.