Acupuncture may be a solution for you.  Written by Ann Batten

What is happening to our health today? Lots of people are suffering from “not feeling quite right”. It may be from physical stiffness and pain or stress, anxiety, worry, frustration, depression or other symptoms. But where there are problems there is always a solution somewhere and a lot of people have found acupuncture very helpful.

Acupuncture is part of the oriental medical system and has been practised for thousands of years. There are many different styles of acupuncture. The different countries in the orient have their own version but all styles have a lot in common.

Acupuncture has its own diagnostic model, which looks at disease from the point of view of imbalances of energy. In our daily lives we use energy all the time. Most commonly this is in the form of electricity. What most people don’t realise is that our own bodies also have “electricity”. The Chinese word for this energy is chi.

There are over 400 points and lots of energy channels in the body. The most commonly used are 12 channels of which 10 correspond to our internal organs. This means that there is an energetic channel for each main internal organ i.e. stomach, spleen, liver, heart, lungs, small intestine, large intestine, gallbladder, kidney, and bladder.

The oriental medicine’s point of view takes into account the “whole” person. This includes the physical, mental and emotional aspects. As an example, stress often causes frustration and anger, which in energetic terms may affect the liver energy. All the organs have a different emotion. Liver energy imbalances can result in migraines, stiff neck & shoulders as well as stiffness in the body, menstrual problems and insomnia to mention a few symptoms. Obviously also anger, short temper, irritation, frustration etc. may be part of it.

Any problem is part of the whole person. This means that when you stimulate to change a problem, whether it is back pain, menstrual problems, digestive problems or anything else people often report for instance, their headaches have also got better or they are sleeping better even though the acupuncturist may not have treated these additional problems specifically. Everything is part of the whole and consequently the whole body is balanced.

This is why acupuncture has the ability to treat any kind of illness or imbalance and every person is treated as an individual.

Ann Batten works from Lanjaron. She can be contacted on 653 477 299 or by email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it