Conditions Treated
As a natural form of healing, acupuncture has the following benefits:
- Provides drug-free pain relief
- Effectively treats a wide range of acute and chronic ailments
- Treats the underlying cause of disease and illness as well as the symptoms
- Provides a holistic approach to the treatment of disease and illness, linking body, mind and emotions
- Assists in the prevention against disease and illness as well as the maintenance of general well-being
Acupuncture can be used effectively in:
- Adverse reactions to radiotherapy and chemotherapy
- Allergies
- Blood pressure problems
- Infertility
- Breech position in pregnancy
- Induction of labor
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Stress
- Insomnia
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
Neurological and musculo-skeletal disorders:
- Headache and migraine
- Pareses following a stroke
- Peripheral neuropathies
- Sequelae of poliomyelitis (early stage i.e. within six months)
- Neurogenic bladder dysfunction
- Nocturnal enuresis (bedwetting)
- Intercostal neuralgia “Frozen shoulder”, “Tennis elbow”
- Sciatica
- Low-back pain
- Osteoarthritis