Cure with needles?

Camilo Ernesto Cano Ortega

Centro Colombo Americano
Its probable that the first thing that came up to your mind when you think in a
needle is sewing or an injection; but there is a technique called acupuncture that
uses them as a healing therapy. Personally, I would not use it, because, even when
Im not afraid of injections, I cant imagine my body or a part of my body with a long
quantity of needles.
The Greeks and Romans were first culture that studied it, but they wanted to give it
a war use, by applying snakes sting in the needles and using them against other
people.
The acupuncture is a treatment based on Chinese medicine. The technique has
been practiced in many countries of Asia for thousands years and nowadays is
used in many countries of America and Europe as an alternative medicine
treatment; is believe that the acupuncture had its origin around 100 BC on Chine.
In this technique, needles are inserting in specific parts of the body called
acupuncture points which according to the alternative medicine allows the
connection between different systems in our body.
This procedure has two main uses, the principal is to heal but it has also a
preventive use. Normally, it is using with other procedures of the alternative
medicine such as acupressure and sonopuncture. However, there is a big debate
about its real results, because the conventional medicine says that this treatment
might have a placebo effect and their result are not real.
Acupuncture is based on the principle that the body has channels called meridians
where the energy flows through. Taking into account this, the needles put in the
right point can heal by freeing the pressure. The most common technique used is
inserting thin needles through the skin, to cause a change in the physical functions
of the body.
In this moment it is too popular, because part of the medical community have used
the acupuncture like a complementary treatment to heal pain in somebody parts
and regulars problems of the stress.
The decision to use or not, it is yours; you just have to check two conditions, the
first, go with a professional in this field and second be careful with the needles,
because they need a careful process to be clean. I do not want to take the risk but
if you want to take it, gook luck.