How does acupuncture work for conditions other than pain?
The simplest answer is that acupuncture influences the nervous system. Because the nervous system controls all other body systems, this explains some of widespread benefits of acupuncture. Acupuncture influences the body’s natural homeostatic and immunologic surveillance mechanisms. Homeostasis is the body’s hard-wired regulatory system. This is what keeps your animal’s vital functions and immune system working properly. Homeostasis involves regulation of heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, temperature control, pH of body tissues and many other functions. Immunologic surveillance is your animal’s natural capacity to resist disease, or to fight intruders if they somehow get past the initial gatekeepers and invade the body. A loss of normal regulation is associated with many diseases, therefore acupuncture appears to work by a non-specific mechanism of improving the body’s natural ability to maintain and heal itself. Promoting the body’s own healing capacity can have fewer side effect
