The person who is undergoing the acupuncture treatment has to feel the needling sensation according to eminent traditional Chinese doctors. Sensation caused by the needles varies according to the treatment that is being given.
Acupuncture treatment usually is not supposed to and does not cause pain except in some particular areas. The needling process creates a warm, tingling sensation which sometimes makes you feel numb in that area.
Sometimes, during the needling procedure, the patient feels the pain radiating from the point of needling to another point in the body. Basically while the acupuncturist uses the needle on the patient, what happens is it stimulates certain parts of the nervous system which are responsive.
This in turn sets off a biochemical series speeding up the healing process. Some points in the body called the broad spectrum points, when needled have the capacity to heal more than one disease in the body at a time. Other points are limited in their applications. They affect only one point in the system.
Acupuncturists normally combine both points for an effective healing process. The broad spectrum points are used by almost all acupuncturists to treat a variety of common ailments.
Accupoints which are on the meridian lines do not correspond though to the neural connections very clearly. Modern acupuncturists have identified certain other points based on the similarity to the layout of the human body.
These points include certain points on the outer ear. Acupuncturists have also identified other zones like points on the scalp and hands which corresponds to larger areas of the body. This may be because the spinal cord connects various parts of the body with secondary branches.
Modern concepts and research thus are focussed on finding effective points which will stimulate biochemical responses rather than the traditional qi regulation. Modern methods of acupuncture relies more on electrical stimulation either with or without needling and laser stimulation in contrast to the traditional method of needling and moxibustion which is application of heat.
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