Cannington Acupuncture

1. Cannington Acupuncture – Methods Of Healing • Acupuncture is derived from two Latin words ‘acus’ which means needle and ‘punctura’ meaning to penetrate. Acupuncture is one of the most popular alternative medicines used worldwide. The therapy aims to normalise or regulate the flow of energy or ‘chi’ throughout the body. • The needles used in Acupuncture are just slightly thicker than the human hair. Equilibrium is achieved through inserting needles into acupuncture points. Cannington acupuncture alleviates the disease’s symptom by removing the fundamental cause. • An acupuncturist can only determine the cause of an illness through a thorough assessment. The first step is to diagnose the problem by observation and probing questions. Traditional Chinese Medicine also follows four diagnostic methods. • 1. Inspection • Inspection uses visual observation and focuses more on the face particularly the tongue of a patient. Tongue diagnosis is an essential procedure in traditional diagnosis. The process includes assessment of a person’s tongue size, texture, shape, colour, tension and coating. • Alternative medicine also believes that different areas of the tongue correspond to a certain internal organ. A tongue is normal when it’s soft, has a proper size, pale red in colour, has a thin layer of white coating and free in mention. • 2. Auscultation and Olfaction • Auscultation refers to actively listening to particular health signs – patient’s voice, respiration and cough. Olfaction attends to the sense of smell particularly the body odour of a patient. Foul breath is believed to be caused by pathogenic heat from the stomach. • 3. Questioning • Questioning diagnosis is also known as history taking. It follows a system of ‘ten inquiries’ which originated from a song. An acupuncturist will ask about chills and fever, perspiration, appetite, thirst and taste, defecation and urination, pain, sleep, sex and reproductive system. • 4. Palpation • Palpation diagnosis involves the sense of touch for feeling tenderness and ‘chi’ points. Acupuncture in Perth uses the pulse to determine balance of blood, yin and yang, condition of internal organs and the state of the body as a whole.