Acupuncture

The practice of pricking or otherwise puncturing a living organism to relieve or eliminate disease, pain, or lethargy in that organism. Acupuncture typically involves inserting needles of various shapes into the skin with the purported aim of stimulating acupoints, which supposedly enable direct influence of the flow of Qi (chi). Practitioners may be called "acupuncturists" or "acupuncture therapists." Most forms of acupuncture are unnaturalistic. Neuro-electric acupuncture and New Scientific ElectroAcupuncture--and, apparently, osteopuncture--are naturalistic.

Acupuncture is an ancient oriental medical system based on the energy meridians that run the length of the body. These meridians correspond to the major organs of the body and contain hundreds of acupuncture points. These points are stimulated with special needles that regulate the flow of energy. The points can also be stimulated with low power laser and RED L.E.D. devices. Acupuncture is commonly used to treat pain, but also can be used to treat many conditions including drug or alcohol addiction, sinus problems, tendentious and many other symptoms resulting from improper function of the various organs. Acupuncture was fist discovered on the battlefields of ancient China, when soldiers wounded by arrows reported that other long-standing chronic ailments had suddenly disappeared. Before long, Chinese physicians found that the body has a complex network of invisible energy channels which Ki, the vital energy of life travels. They found 12 major and dozens of minor channels and discovered that each one was functionally related to specific organs and glands. These channels, though invisible to the eye, have been 'mapped' by Kirlian photography in Russia.