What Exactly Happens During An Asthma Acupuncture Treatment?
Very skinny needles are inserted just under the skin at certain points of your body. This is usually the upper back and hand when treating asthma. It is believed that energy flows through the body along very specific and identifiable paths. They call these paths meridians. I just think of them as streets and your body as the neighborhood. When you have a physical problem like asthma, it is believed that the energy flowing through your body is out of whack. It is not flowing down the streets like it should. Inserting these needles at specific points on the street helps to correct the energy flow problem. The needles are either rotated manually or a small electric current is applied to them. You should feel a warmth or a numbness around that point. The needles are left there for about twenty minutes for the best effect. Effective asthma acupuncture treatment involves a series of treatments over a period of up to about 10 weeks. Sometimes this treatment is combined with specific breathing
