How Does Acupuncture Work?
Years ago, while working as an engineer in Boston, I was given acupuncture treatments to reduce the high stress concentrated in my life. I had a very stressful project had been at work and after consulting a colleague’s rave about a practitioner, I became curious enough to start weekly acupuncture treatment. I found the treatments to be incredibly relaxing. Although difficult to describe with words how I was feeling physically or emotionally after a treatment, I make sure I wanted to experience this physical and emotional state at all times, extreme satisfaction, comfort and environmental awareness.
 It was clear to me that acupuncture treatments resulted in a change, but as an engineer, I was looking for a logical explanation, and was curious about how acupuncture might trigger such a reaction in a patient. It seemed unlikely that the insertion could lead ten extremely thin needles into the body of a patient for about twenty minutes in such a dramatic change, and yet that is exactly what was going on. The more treatments I received, the more I could feel the therapeutic effects, and the more fascinated I was with acupuncture.
 During this treatment, I was often frustrated when I requested the practitioner to explain how acupuncture worked. The acupuncturist would tersely that unbalanced energy was balanced. Each subsequent question seemed to be met with a similarly brief, matter-of-fact reply. I assumed that was my acupuncturist actually avoid my questions. I had the impression that he does not really explain how acupuncture worked, so instead he filled the air with unintelligible, New-Age jargon. I just wanted an answer to my question.
 A few years later, during his stay in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I met a student who was studying acupuncture at a local college. She had studied acupuncture for two years and would like next year from high school. Now I could certainly an answer to my question. I asked very specific, like a needle could lead used in a part of the human body in another part of the body to change. I asked her what physiological or chemical changes took place to explain this phenomenon. She did not hesitate at all before me to say, “I do not know. I have no idea.” I also found this response very unsatisfactory. Would not it be their education, an accredited master’s degree program to focus on the very topic? How could she be unable to answer this question after two years of the study of acupuncture?
 After another year had passed, took me to my continuing interest in acupuncture me to apply and enroll at Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The 3,000 hours of programming, which helped for a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine, to me, my questions and their answers in a new light. With hindsight I can now fully understand why the answers to my questions were so unsatisfactory. I was at the time, I was looking for a Western explanation about a very Eastern concept. In asking my questions, I had to learn not just about how acupuncture worked, but I was also implicitly expect a reply in my own language, in terms understandable by someone living in the West.
 In academic programs teaching traditional Chinese medicine in the United States today there is little emphasis on the question of how acupuncture works appropriate, from a scientific perspective. Rather, the educational programs focus on helping students understand the Eastern explanation of acupuncture, the one I originally found so evasive and confusing.
 This is not to say that studies not to determine how acupuncture works from today’s focus scientific perspective. In many of these studies have shown that acupuncture relieve trigger endorphins and enkephalins, the brain, chemicals with pain release properties. Other theories suggest that acupuncture needles reach jam in the neural pathways and thus prevent pain signals to the brain. Other studies have shown that acupuncture needling activates the brain regulation of neurotransmitters and hormones, many primary systems in the body, including the nervous, endocrine and immune system.
 But, while acupuncture of my studies, I finally began understanding the value of traditional Chinese explanation of acupuncture, as this was the paradigm to see, have worked in which teachers and practitioners for thousands of years. When we talk about Chinese medicine from a strictly scientific point of trying, we are not really speak Chinese medicine. We would without a large amount of important Chinese medical philosophy, inseparable from what this medicine and is has come from there, is connected. Throughout my studies, I began to see, embrace, and finally, the fact that in order to learn how traditional Chinese medicine works, it is necessary to those who have a history that is to understand practice.
 So, acupuncture works because with extremely thin, disposable sterile acupuncture needles, an acupuncturist accesses a patient’s energy and has a balancing effect. Traditional Chinese medicine theory is based on the fact that there is an energy that flows in the human body through specific pathways or channels based. The energy flows are blocked or impeded by emotional stress, to choose unhealthy lifestyles, environmental influences, poor nutrition or physical injuries caused by these routes. If this energy is blocked, the result is pain, discomfort or illness. An acupuncturist uses acupuncture needles (and other methods) to slightly stimulate certain points of the body to the balance of the normal flow of this energy to restore to relieve pain, and treatment of diseases. I hope you do not find this explanation unsatisfactory. If you do, you alone can not.
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