Have you considered starting off the year with acupuncture for prevention treatment? This approach focuses on maintaining balance and addressing potential issues before they arise. Prevention acupuncture not only helps prevent illness throughout the year but also supports long-term wellness. By targeting specific acupuncture points through each acupuncture treatment, you can experience the benefits of acupuncture for disease prevention. Incorporating holistic health acupuncture into your routine is a proactive step in safeguarding your well-being.
What is Acupuncture for Prevention Treatment?
The concept of prevention was raised in the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) classic more than 2000 years ago. This prevention treatment idea is composed of two important meanings. First, it stresses the important notion of dealing with any potential or foreseeable illness by applying moxa, herbs and acupuncture in prevention to your healthy body to stop them from developing. Second, it stresses an important notion of stopping the existing illness from transforming and transporting to other parts of your body by applying TCM treatment methods. Techniques like acupuncture therapy not only provide relief but also play a role in the prevention and treatment of various conditions, helping patients maintain health and balance.
A helpful metaphor for this approach is preparing your weapons before the battle begins—being ready before illness has a chance to take hold.
Why Prevention is Important
The foundation of health challenges often lies in the deficiency or weakness of the body’s constitution. Strengthening this constitution through acupuncture prevention treatment helps prepare the body to combat viruses and bacteria from external environments. Incorporating acupuncture therapy can reinforce your body’s natural defences, promoting resilience and balance.
In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the viscera are deeply interrelated, meaning an imbalance in one organ can affect others. For example, anger may disrupt your appetite as the liver affects the stomach and spleen. Similarly, catching a cold could trigger diarrhea due to the lung affecting the large intestine or, in severe cases, even lead to acute kidney failure as the lung affects the kidney.
By supporting long-term wellness with acupuncture and targeting the right acupuncture points, it becomes possible to strengthen the interconnected functions of organs, stopping illnesses from spreading and worsening. Regular acupuncture treatment sessions focused on these relationships help the body address underlying imbalances while preventing new issues from arising.
Do You Need Prevention?
You could have the choice of doing prevention to keep your health always on a high level or receiving treatments and taking pills to help you regain health after you get sick. Which one sounds more attractive?
Once your defensive system is well built, it helps your body deal with all kinds of diseases (i.e., immunity to some illnesses and speedier recovery from some illnesses). Returning to the earlier metaphor, if your territory has a powerful army, invaders will struggle to attack. Similarly, acupuncture for the prevention of illness focuses on fortifying your system by stimulating key acupuncture points. Research, including clinical trials of acupuncture and randomized controlled trials, demonstrates the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating conditions and preventing them from worsening or spreading. Techniques like manual acupuncture and acupuncture and moxibustion help maintain balance, ensuring minor health issues don’t develop into serious concerns.
What kind of disease could benefit from using this method?
Asthma, which is often manifested by shortness of breath, chest tightness, wheezing and intensive coughing, often aggravates in winter and spring times. You might have a chance to get it reduced in frequency and length of aggravation on the basis that you receive prevention treatment in the summertime (i.e., you are expected to receive 1 session per week for continuous 2 months from mid-July to early September).
The flu, which is contagious, tends to attack if your body constitution is weak. If you could receive a few acupuncture sessions before the flu season arrives, your chance of getting flu may decrease. It is recommended that if you are easily catching the flu, you should consider prevention 2 months ahead (e.g., you are expected to receive 1 session every 2 weeks for 4-5 sessions).
Migraines, which could last from a few hours to days when attacking, are often accompanied by nausea and photophobia. If you have been suffering from migraine attacks for longer than 1 year, it is recommended that you try a few prevention sessions of acupuncture (e.g., you are expected to receive 3-5 acupuncture sessions during a migraine-free period, or before the migraine attack, and continue for 3 migraine-free periods). There may be a chance to reduce your migraine attack frequency and lasting period for each attack.
Stroke is a serious health safety hazard, which could lead to paralysis of the body (including facial paralysis), walking difficulty due to balance issues, difficulty in speaking and/or understanding others talking, etc. The common contributing factors are long-term high blood pressure, heart disease, excessive alcohol consumption, and smoking. Acupuncture could help to control these risk factors to some extent and thus prevent stroke from taking place. If you have these mentioned health risk issues, do consider this prevention idea. Although it is not a short-term deal, you could scale it against the severe consequences after a stroke (i.e., a long recovery process with rehabilitation therapies and medications).
How Many Sessions Are Required?
The number of sessions for acupuncture prevention treatment varies based on individual needs. During your first assessment at Innate Wellness, the practitioner will evaluate your body constitution and discuss your health concerns. A personalized treatment plan will follow, recommending the appropriate number of sessions. If extended care is needed, the practitioner will revisit your progress after five to six sessions to ensure you stay on track.
At Innate Wellness, we are committed to helping you maintain balance and strengthen your defences with acupuncture for prevention treatment. Contact us today to schedule your personalized consultation!
