“If you are interested in success stories regarding acupuncture treatment, then I would be interested in sharing my remarkable story,” begins a testimonial from Maria of Southington, Connecticut. “I was a person who tried traditional medicine first, was a suicidal, walking pharmacy, there wasn’t a part of my body that didn’t suffer from pain, had trouble with muscles working, and had such fluid retention, I thought the acupuncture doctor was going to turn me down. That was in Nov. 2005. Today I am drug free, emotionally better than I have been in years, and I am able to control pain when not in a session. Traditional medicine still hasn’t found out what is wrong with me, but if it wasn’t for acupuncture, I wouldn’t be here today.” Like many other Americans, Maria found that acupuncture and Chinese medicine has an inexplicable healing power that succeeded where traditional medicines had failed.

Over time, we naturally lose some of our “Jing” (or genetics/youthful vigor) from things like excess sexual precariousness, alcoholism, working too hard or emotional drainage. By undergoing Chinese acupuncture, it is believed that the acupuncture points allow entry into energy channels, bolstering the immune system, improving circulation and regulating hormones. It’s widely believed that acupuncture and Chinese medicine enables one to live a longer, healthier life with greater happiness and balance.

Another Chinese theory is called the “Electrical” theory, which says that the body is always discharging slight magnetic energy and that Chinese acupuncture actually works by manipulating the body’s electromagnetic fields, altering chemical neurotransmitters in the process. In 1999, British doctors found that collagen was a good conductor of electricity — and Dr. Mae Won Ho concluded that “the kind of conducting water channels that more or less follow the collagen fibres may correspond to the so-called meridians of the acupuncture channels. So when you put a needle in you are giving a local electrical stimulation which then enables this positive electricity to be conducted to some distant sites.”

A person’s reaction to Chinese Acupuncture And Medicine is purely personal. Some people feel minimal to no pain as the needles go in, while some feel sore. Chinese acupuncture invigorates some patients and calms others. Many patients come back for more than one treatment over time and find that it gets easier and easier. If they’re feeling a little bit of discomfort during a particular session, then they’ll know they’ve pushed themselves too hard that week. If we all just slowed down and took a moment, we’d be in much better shape - both mentally and physically.