Acupuncture Therapy : Acupuncture Moxibustion

The acupunture in our contry

In Venezuela the acupuncture is an uncommon practice, but there are several locations where this activity takes place as the school of acupuncture nei-Jing located in the urbanization Valle Abajo on the avenue Caroni and there is also the association of acupuncture in Venezuela named Sovam the Spanish acronym of it. Here you got some links of this places:

• http://www.neijingcaracas.org.ve/2009/09/consultas-medicas-de-acupuntura-en.html
• http://investigacion.unefm.edu.ve/sovam/sovam.htm

Acupuncture

The acupuncture is a traditional Chinese medicine that consist in inserting and manipulating needles into various points on the body to relieve pain or for therapeutic purposes

Acupuncture is among the oldest healing practices in the world. As part of traditional Chinese medicine

According to the beliefs of Chinese medicine the body is seen as a delicate balance of two opposing and inseparable forces the yin and yang, yin represents cold, slow, or passive aspects of the person, while yang represents hot, excited, or active aspects. A major theory is that health is achieved through balancing yin and yang and disease is caused by an imbalance leading to a blockage in the flow of qi.. Yin represents the cold, slow, or passive principle, while yang represents the hot, excited, or active principie; for Chinese health is achieved by maintaining the body in a "balanced state”

Alternative medicine

The alternative medicine is a term that involves other practices that doesn't belong to the realm of conventional medicine, and the effectiveness of this medicine haven't been fully tested, because it's based on notions: superstitious, religious or pseudoscientific, this reason is too the anwenser of why it opposes to the conventional medicine (that it's based on evidence and scientific procedures).

 

 Although this medicine hasn't proof it effectiveness it provides  a lot of benefits for the patient, because it offers many more options, including treatments that are not available in clinical medicine.

However, those critical of the methods of alternative medicine argue that there aren't any statistics to mark how many studies have been performed and when they have been experienced, resulting in positive results that warrant the consideration of it as part of conventional medicine. All the foundations of the critique of alternative medicine are based on the effectiveness of it has not been proven scientifically