Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Get rid of Head Pain with Acupuncture


If you are frequently attacked headache but a doctor's examination revealed no abnormalities or infections, you probably suffer from primary headache. Data shows 95 percent of patients who came because of complaints of headache suffers primary headache, which means not caused tumor or serious medical problems.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, the main cause of head pain usually associated with psychological factors, such as emotional factors or excess physical workload. The wrong diet, excessive sexual activity, heredity and too often give birth in close proximity can also trigger headache.
"The pain that arises basically caused due to the flow of energy or chi that is not smooth. Because it is often found in people who still feel the pain even though the results of x-rays and medical examinations showed no problems. This occurs when the organ is a good material but function is poor, "said Michael Fang, acupuncturist from Tirtayu Healing Center Jakarta.
Healing-style acupuncture is not just the symptoms or "shoot straight" to the part that gives rise to pain or other complaints. "Handling the principle of balance of yin and yang. Techniques acupuncture aims to balance the circulation of chi," says Michael.
In view of acupuncture, each paired with each other organs, namely solid organs and hollow organs. For example, a paired organ liver with gall bladder, kidneys and bladder, the heart of the small intestine, lung with large intestine, and spleen with the stomach.
"Physical workload energy can injure the spleen and kidney yin. Kidney yin deficiency can cause headaches that eventually developed into a comprehensive migraine along Meridien gall bladder," explains Michael pointed out.
In case of excessive sexual activity, then the kidney is not enough energy and time to produce sperm that can cause liver organ (which is considered child kidneys) become exhausted and trigger a headache.
Therefore, according to the man who was also an expert of traditional chinese medicine (TCM), when treating patients suffering from headache in the forehead, acupuncture needles will not be inserted in the forehead but other parts of the foot. "Basically all the acupuncture point will pass through the head so that most of the acupuncture therapy is not inserted in the head," he added.
Treatment with acupuncture performed in a single series consisting of 12 times of arrival. Yet many patients who do not complete therapy because of the series feel the complaint has disappeared.
It was also felt Hani, women who suffer from vertigo is only half the series underwent therapy but stopped because of illness disappear. Previously he was regularly taking medicines from the doctor but did not show improvement. "After 2 weeks of acupuncture now I do not ever recurrent vertigo. A few other complaints also disappeared," said the mother of two children.
Michael explains, headache is usually not triggered by one thing, but accompanied by other symptoms. In the case of Hani, he found no interference with the internal organs, causing liver complaint menstrual pain or frequent choking.
To optimize healing, usually Michael also advise patients to take herbal medicine from China. "The combination of acupuncture and herbal medicine is very good," he explained. Even so Michael explained that not all headache disease can be treated with acupuncture.
"The disease tumors in the head, bleeding or infection can not be overcome with acupuncture, must still undergo medical treatment. Which can be cured is a disease caused more psychological or stress factors," said Fang owner Clinic in numbers this Cibubur.

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