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Using acupuncture to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)

by | Sep 17, 2016 | Acupuncture

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) treatment with acupuncture

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a disorder that affects the gastrointestinal system. It is also referred to as mucus colitis or spastic colon with symptoms including abdominal pain, cramping, and constant cycles of constipation and diarrhea. Symptoms of IBS usually reduce after a bowel movement but recur after eating. The symptoms may vary depending on the each individual although, stress is a major factor that directly affects the syndrome. Lesser symptoms include bloating, flatulence and nausea. There is no known cause for IBS but people suffering from the syndrome are helped by medication and diet regulation.

What is acupuncture?

Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine where the energy flow of the body (referred to as Chi) is restored to it’s original state. This is said to improve the functionality of organs and get rid of ailments. In traditional Chinese perspectives, disease is thought to be a result of imbalanced energy flow within the body. To rectify this, acupuncture practitioners work with patients to amend the energy flow and return it to its natural state.

Can it help IBS?

The short answer is yes, acupuncture can help relieve the symptoms of IBS effectively, Acupuncture is known to relieve many of the most common IBS symptoms including abdominal pain, cramping, constipation, and diarrhea. Since stress levels play a major role in the persistence of IBS, acupuncture can greatly reduce stress and other problems such as anxiety, insomnia, PMS and menstrual cramps. IBS is 3 times more common among women than men.

Is it acupuncture effective?

Recent studies have compared more modern methods of treating IBS, like relaxation therapy, against acupuncture. Although both studies did show a significant relief in pain for the patient, acupuncture had long lasting effects. Additionally, patients that had undergone acupuncture had significant reduction in stress levels for a long period of time. This wasn’t the case with the patients that underwent relaxation therapy.

How it works

This is the strange part about acupuncture – no one knows how it works. Western scientists theorize that the insertion of needles at certain points, releases more endorphins and thus, dulls the pain. To back this theory, various research studies have been conducted and their results are quite intriguing. The research revealed that acupuncture had made major changes to the brain. It had changed the blood flow to the brain along with the conduction of electromagnetic signals. The blood flow was redirected to the thalamus,  which is responsible for relaying sensory signals like pain. Acupuncture also changed the way the brain released neurotransmitters like norepinephrine and serotonin.

Those who do not believe in Chinese medicine have yet to find a reason for the success of acupuncture. Strangely, many of IBS’s main curing methods like meditation, acupuncture and tai chi have no] underlying explanations as to why they work so well. Western medicine does not offer a solid treatment plan for IBS at all. Just know that the main aim is to solve the problem and acupuncture does that.

Contact Us For More Information

For more information about how acupuncture, massage therapy and other alternative healing treatments can help you, please contact the Urban Acupuncture Center Board Certified Licensed Acupuncturist’s team at Indianola Ave, Clintonville (614) 725-2488    |    Main St, Westerville (614) 426-4406 or  click here. Taking new patients in and around greater Columbus, Ohio.

Relationship Problems Helped With Acupuncture

by | Sep 1, 2016 | Acupuncture

Relationship Problems?

Having problems in relationships is quite common. Fights, disagreements and arguments are bound to happen in any kind of a relationship – be it a marriage or a partnership or between members in the immediate or extended family or in friendships. The longer the relationship, the bigger the problems are.

But according to Chinese study, relationship problems are very similar to health problems. Health problems such as pain occur when Qi (energy) gets stagnated and cannot flow properly through your body. The place Qi gets stagnated in, pain occurs there. Emotional stagnation of energy causes emotional pain such as those experienced because of relationship problems.

Acupuncture Treatment

Acupuncture is the best treatment for Qi or energy stagnation of all kinds. If you and your sister or partner are having long lasting relationship problems, you can take the help of treatment with acupuncture to heal the pain that you are feeling emotionally. Both of you will be treated individually. An intake exam will be conducted to determine what emotional problems or imbalances you are suffering from.

Both your Qi’s would be made to start flowing again. The movement this time will be better and freer. After the session of acupuncture, you go home and discuss the actual reasons behind problems troubling your relationship. You are calm and controlled and in more balance after the treatment with acupuncture. It is because of this that you and your sister or partner can now work towards effectively resolving your issues. When your Qi moves forward, your relationship moves forward.

What if the other person refuses?

It is possible that the other person will refuse to go for acupuncture because they do not believe in the success of acupuncture ‘treating’ or resolving emotional problems. It does not matter if they do not want to. You can come on your own for the treatment. Your treatment will ensure that your Qi is flowing again and that you are in balance emotionally and physically. You will feel a lot more positive after the treatment after the treatment and be ale to handle the situation better.

So when you go back and talk to the other person, you will realize that you now have the ability to handle the problems in a better way and are also successful in effectively resolving them. The effects of only one person taking the help of acupuncture in resolving relationship problems would definitely be less effectual than it would have been had both of you taken the help of acupuncture and emotional healing.

Obviously, the effect would not be that strong. But it is a lot better than none of you going for the acupuncture treatment. Always remember that any amount of help will make your relationship stronger and healthier than it currently is. Give your relationship a chance and try acupuncture. You deserve to be out of pain, even if it is the pain of an unresolved conflict.

Acupuncture has been in practice for ages now. It was a traditional practice in China but has now established itself as an important part of modern medicine.

For more information about how acupuncture and other treatments can help you, please contact the Urban Acupuncture Center Board Certified Licensed Acupuncturist’s team at Indianola Ave, Clintonville (614) 725-2488    |    Main St, Westerville (614) 426-4406 or  click here. Taking new patients in and around greater Columbus, Ohio.