East West Medicine

Acupuncture is an ancient Eastern traditional practice that has survived for thousands of years, and still offers a great deal of benefit today for those who suffer from a variety of conditions. While some of the conditions that acupuncture has been found to be the most beneficial include allergies, lung disorders such as asthma, migraines, back pain, and arthritis, acupuncture has helped a large number of people to eliminate pain, reduce symptoms, alleviate stress and anxiety, and lead healthier, more balanced lives. Even though acupuncture as an art and science was first introduced in Eastern civilizations, its modern day influence has spanned the globe, and is now a widely accepted from of medicine even in the Western world. Those who seek the help of a certified acupuncture provider and those who become certified in the field of acupuncture continue to rise in number annually in the US. While a lot of people may cringe at the very thought of it, acup...

You have probably heard of fractals—geometric forms that defy our usual definition of shape and size—as a fractal shape possesses infinite detail which repeats itself at every size or scale of magnitude. The human body possesses "fractal-ness" in its physical structure, movement, stages of development, and in the system of points used in acupuncture. In mathematics and information science, the property of "fractal-ness" inherent in living forms is referred to as "self-similarity". Just as the twigs of a tree are similar to the tree's branches, "microsystems" of acupuncture points "mirror" the whole system of acupoints found in the body. In a "microsystem", the whole body is reflected in just one of its organs, such as the ear or the hand. Conditions of the body, wherever they might be, from head to toe, can be treated by using points in one microsystem. Nature likes to re-use its finest designs over and over, ...

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When there is the two-theorys, and both try to explain something, then the paradoxes arise, and is the light of the paradoxes that illuminates our minds to a new approach to a problem. But you only get a new approach if you are navigating through the various knowledge, for while beliefs are rooted in unique consiguirá you hardly see any light at the end of the tunnel. Before anything else is good to make clear that the scientific method we have today is still the best tool we have to study nature and its interaction with things. And it is the light that many researchers try to explain acupuncture. WHO recognizes scientific evidence in various pathologies that can be treated by acupuncture, but even so, there always appear more scientific studies trying to prove whether or not there is effective with the use of needles. Unfortunately these studies are full of bias, there are so many interests wanting to prove or disprove the use of needles, which is no longer possible to b...