Are You Familiar with Acupuncture?

By Dr. Mercola

According to the most recent National Health Statistics Report, compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 3.5 million American adults receive acupuncture treatments each year.¹ Used for thousands of years, this therapeutic technique involves inserting ultrafine needles into the surface of your skin at specific points along your body’s defined energy pathways, which are also known as meridians.

Acupuncture needles are either stimulated by hand or electrically as a means of safely and effectively relieving common health complaints such as back and neck pain, fibromyalgia, headaches, osteoarthritis, shoulder pain and more.

The main aspect of acupuncture that sets it apart from conventional, symptom-based medicine is the fact it seeks to eliminate the root cause of your problem by uncovering dysfunction in your body’s energetic meridian system. Keep reading for all you need to know about acupuncture and how it works.

If you are interested in receiving some of the benefits of acupuncture without the prick of needles, you might want to try the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). EFT is a painless psychological acupressure technique I highly recommend to help optimize your emotional health. While often overlooked, your emotional health is connected to and has a great deal of influence over your physical health and well-being.

Irrespective of how devoted you are to eating well and living a healthy lifestyle, your success will be somewhat limited until you deal with your emotional baggage, much of which, believe it or not, very likely has been following you since childhood. EFT works because it is based on the same energy meridians used in acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments. Rather than inserting needles into specific points along your body’s energy meridians, however, you will simply tap over some of those areas using your fingertips.

As you tap, you’ll be thinking about and talking through your specific problem, whether it be an addiction, anxiety, physical pain or a traumatic event. Along the way, you’ll voice positive affirmations. In the video above, EFT practitioner Julie Schiffman demonstrates how to tap to gain relief from physical pain. This is just one of the many areas that have been shown to respond well to EFT.

As you’ll discover, the combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation works to clear any emotional blocks, thereby restoring and balancing the connection between your mind and body. Because the results are quick and painless, EFT is sure to become one of your “go-to” healing tools. To learn more about EFT and how it works, as well as the many conditions and situations to which it can be applied, check out my EFT home page.

Sources and References

• ¹ National Health Statistics Report February 10, 2015 [PDF]
• ² Encyclopedia Britannica May 4, 2018
• ^3, 4, 5 The Hearty Soul, How Does Acupuncture Really Work?
• ^6, 8, 15 Live Science June 21, 2017
• ⁷ Molecular Neurobiology February 2015; 51(1): 19-31
• ⁹ Nature Neuroscience 2010 May 30, 2010; 13: 883-888
• ¹⁰ Evidence Based Acupuncture, World Health Organization Official Position
• ¹¹ Annals of Internal Medicine December 21, 2004; 141(12): 901-910
• ¹² Archives of Internal Medicine October 2012; 172(19): 144-1453
• ¹³ PLOS One December 13, 2013; 8(12): e82474
• ¹⁴ Acupuncture in Medicine August 2016; 34(4): 257-266
• ¹⁶ Beaumont Health July 27, 2017

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