Acupuncture – How can it help you?
Of all the traditional treatment systems available in Australia, Acupuncture is by far the most respected and has achieved wide-spread acceptance as a natural form of health care, including formal recognition by the World Health Organization.
At the basis of Chinese Medicine is thousands of years of observation and study of functional relationships within the body with emphasis on both prevention and treatment of disease.
Functional Medicine is a personalized holistic medicine that attempts to understand the underlying causes of acute and chronic disease and places more emphasis on the knowledge of the interplay of dynamic organ systems to form a treatment plan, rather than just our western symptom approach to illness.
Acupuncture may help with the following conditions
Acupuncture – drug-free therapy
- acupuncture is a drug-free treatment:
- has very few side-effects when provided by a qualified practitioner:
- helps to treats the underlying cause of disease and illness as well as the symptoms:
- provides an wholistic approach to the treatment of disease and illness, linking body, mind and emotions:
- assists in the prevention against disease and illness as well as the maintenance of general well-being.
Natural health care
Acupuncture is based on a coherent and substantial body of knowledge developed over thousands of years of clinical practice and intellectual endeavour. Clinical research adds to this traditional knowledge. Qualified practitioners draw on these traditional and modern sources to arrive at individually tailored acupuncture treatments.
Holistic health care
This system of health care, in which acupuncture treatments are tailored to your individual health condition, developed from the philosophy that restoring balance and normal functioning will both treat ailments and prevent other illnesses from developing.
Time-honoured medicine
Acupuncture is part of an integrated system of primary health care. known as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), that has an uninterrupted history of development dating back thousands of years in China and other parts of East Asia. The origins of acupuncture in China can be traced hack at least five thousand years, making it one of the oldest and most long-standing health care systems in the world, Today, acupuncture is a natural and increasingly popular form of health care that is being used by people from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds.
Acupuncture practitioners
In Australia, AACMA acupuncture practitioners are qualified primary-contact health care professionals. Most practitioners operate in private practice, however there are increasing numbers working from community health centres and hospitals or in academic/clinical research.
Qualified practitioners are educated in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TOM) theory, diagnosis and assessment as well as the Western bio-medical sciences. They are professionally trained in the use of acupuncture therapy as a natural form of heath care.
In addition to practitioners whose primary focus is acupuncture, many qualified AACMA acupuncturists also use herbs and massage and may provide supplements and dietary/lifestyle advice as an adjunct to their acupuncture treatment. Acupuncture is a natural healing therapy that works by gently stimulating points on the body with needle techniques and/or heat (moxibustion) which affect the physiological functioning of the body, The aim is to promote metabolic functions and restore homeostasis or balance. This translates to an increased feeling of vitality and mental clarity.
Find out what the latest research has identified with relation to Acupuncture efficacy: Acupuncture Evidence Project.
Full list of therapies
Acupuncture / Herbal Medicine /Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
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