ACUPUNCTURE…ALTERNATIVE TO WHAT?

You have probably heard acupuncture referred to at some point as “alternative medicine” but classifying acupuncture this way is based on two erroneous assumptions.

First, it implies that acupuncture is a runner-up or a contingency plan to turn to when medicine inevitably falls short, or should one choose not to utilize medicine in the first place.

Second, it implies that acupuncture is a type of medicine, albeit an alternative type.

To set the record straight, acupuncture stands alone in the detection and correction of the body’s innate healing energies to bring about balance within the body and to maximize its full expression of life.  Acupuncturists are the only healthcare professionals specifically trained to detect and correct the imbalances in the meridian systems.

Acupuncture is not a specialty of medicine, nor is it an alternative to anything other than pain and suffering.

The focus of medicine is and always has been primarily on the treatment of symptoms and disease.  Think about it.  Most of us were raised to essentially ignore our bodies until they begin screaming out at us in the form of pain, numbness, indigestion, insomnia, weakness, fatigue, or any other number of unbearable symptoms.  It’s the classic knee-jerk reaction.

When we can no longer stand it anymore, we simply take a drug – an artificial chemical substance – and swallow it, inject it, rub it on, or drop it in, and hope that the symptom magically goes away.  With that magic comes plenty of side effects and the same underlying state of ill health that you started with.

Acupuncture, on the other hand, is not concerned with the treatment of symptoms or disease, but with determining the underlying cause of a particular problem, and restoring the normal balance with the body’s meridian system, which is often the underlying cause of outward expressions of sickness.

Life is expressed in the body through the meridian system, and healing is orchestrated from removing energetic blockages within the body. When meridian system pathways become kinked or out of balance, they dampen down the quality and quantity of energy flowing throughout the body. Less flow equals less life.

The logical course of action when confronted with a health challenge should be to support and enhance the body’s internal balance and let true health and healing run its natural course.

When you have acupuncture working for you, who needs an alternative?