Cannington Acupuncture

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Cannington Acupuncture Methods Of Healing

• Acupuncture is derived from two Latin words
  acus which means needle and punctura meaning
  to penetrate. Acupuncture is one of the most
  popular alternative medicines used worldwide. The
  therapy aims to normalise or regulate the flow of
  energy or chi throughout the body.
• The needles used in Acupuncture are just slightly
  thicker than the human hair. Equilibrium is
  achieved through inserting needles into
  acupuncture points. Cannington acupuncture
  alleviates the diseases symptom by removing the
  fundamental cause.
• An acupuncturist can only determine the cause of
  an illness through a thorough assessment. The
  first step is to diagnose the problem by
  observation and probing questions. Traditional
  Chinese Medicine also follows four diagnostic
  methods.
• 1. Inspection
• Inspection uses visual observation and focuses
  more on the face particularly the tongue of a
  patient. Tongue diagnosis is an essential
  procedure in traditional diagnosis. The process
  includes assessment of a persons tongue size,
  texture, shape, colour, tension and coating.
• Alternative medicine also believes that different
  areas of the tongue correspond to a certain
  internal organ. A tongue is normal when its
  soft, has a proper size, pale red in colour, has
  a thin layer of white coating and free in
  mention.
• 2. Auscultation and Olfaction
• Auscultation refers to actively listening to
  particular health signs patients voice,
  respiration and cough. Olfaction attends to the
  sense of smell particularly the body odour of a
  patient. Foul breath is believed to be caused by
  pathogenic heat from the stomach.
• 3. Questioning
• Questioning diagnosis is also known as history
  taking. It follows a system of ten inquiries
  which originated from a song. An acupuncturist
  will ask about chills and fever, perspiration,
  appetite, thirst and taste, defecation and
  urination, pain, sleep, sex and reproductive
  system.
• 4. Palpation
• Palpation diagnosis involves the sense of touch
  for feeling tenderness and chi points.
  Acupuncture in Perth uses the pulse to determine
  balance of blood, yin and yang, condition of
  internal organs and the state of the body as a
  whole.