Restoring balance
Acupuncture is part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This ancient medicine is based on the insight that physical and mental complaints arise from disturbances in the energy system of the body. With acupuncture, these disturbances can be corrected and the energy flow in your body is brought back into balance. Acupuncture encourages the body and mind to heal itself.
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An auto-immune disease occurs because the immune system sees body's own cells and substances as foreign and attacks them. An allergy can also cause this but with autoimmune reactions the symptoms are often more severe. Chronic inflammation deep in the body, sometimes accompanied by attacks and rest periods.
Symptoms
Apart from chronic inflammation, it is also often accompanied by fatigue, depression, stress and moodswings, pain symptoms and an overall feeling of malaise.
Examples of autoimmune disorders include: Rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, Hashimoto's disease, Bechterew's disease and many others.
What can acupuncture do?
You cannot cure an autoimmune disease, even with acupuncture. However, it can help balance the immune system and thus reduce symptoms. Because of this, medication can possibly be reduced, in consultation with the treating physician.
In relation to
You often see that autoimmune diseases involve some form of stress. Logically, it can have quite an impact on your daily functioning and freedom of movement. Sleep problems are also not an unknown factor in autoimmune diseases. Of course, some people are more prone to this than others, but within Chinese Medicine, these complaints often go together. Acupuncture can help you with this by relieving the tension in your body and making you more relaxed in your body, reducing stress feelings and giving sleep more of a chance.
See also Stress and Sleep problems
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