The predictability of Charlotte weather bores me. The times of year fall precisely into simple categories, easily forecast by our local weather-people. So when we have seen our doctors, we always receive a clear diagnosis that quells our fears and anxieties.
Maybe I’m guilty of over-simplifying. The weather is fickle. Maybe our traditional system of drugs doesn’t always prove all encompassing.

So, what’s the alternative? Acupuncture provides one possibility. But rather than “alternative,” let’s utilize the term “complimentary.”

As this short, simple article illustrates, terminology is crucial. Terminology is able to either confirm or debunk a means of thinking. The word “alternative” sets up an either/or mentality. And, just like the weather, health is usually such constant flux that people cannot predict how one person will respond to a treatment that actually works for another person. Snow in New York isn’t like snow in New york.

Often, practitioners of complimentary medicine speak in terms that could be easily labeled as modern. Because of this, medical doctors often skeptically deny acupuncture’s validity. Allow me to ask an easy question: In case your local weather-person presented a forecast in strictly scientific terms, would we all be able to figure out how we’re able to best dress for the weather? Should you answered no, let me present Acupuncture in keeping terms:

Our bodies, our overall health are composed of an internal environment, subject to exactly the same forces that comprise and dictate our external environment – our internal weather. Acupuncture strives to balance our internal environment. The symbols employed by the acupuncturist represent specific, scientific facts. For example, the emblem of “Earth” represents some of the following:

The structures and functions of the stomach, the spleen and pancreas, the adipose tissue (fat), the distillation of the food we eat into the specific energies that nourish our other systems, and the ability from the pancreas to secrete insulin.

When the weather system is unbalanced, it could manifest as a storm front or unseasonably the sunshine. When the energies of the stomach act within an unnatural way, we may experience symptoms such as cramping, acid reflux disease or insulin resistance. Acupuncture seeks to remind your body systems how to work together, in balance, as well as in a predictable manner based on their nature.

While we can’t change our weather, we are able to balance our internal weather systems. Instead of providing an “alternative,” acupuncture strives to compliment Western Medicine. In other words, acupuncture enables the possibility that one way doesn’t invariably disallow other methods.

And it works with necessary prescription along with other therapies, without disallowing the validity of these treatments. Acupuncture supplies a stable, scientific, and non-invasive approach to health that perfectly compliments Western Medicine. Western medical doctors deal mostly using the material side of health. Prescription medications and surgical methods have direct effects about the few the body. Acupuncture directly affects the power that allowed a fabric, unhealthy switch to arise, affecting our internal weather-system. We’ve all heard or used these common-knowledge phrases:

“I caught a cold … My bum knee only hurts if this rains …I seem to sweat too easily … My hands and feet are always cold … My skin gets these weird dry patches … Particular foods make my stomach upset.”

We live largely unnatural lives. We sit within our cars or in front of the screen for large servings of our day. We quite often are put through environmental noise. We do not get much sunlight during our workweek, huddled indoors under fluorescent lighting. We go out in to the fickle weather, after adjusting to artificial heating or air-conditioning.

Consider that term; air conditioning. We become “conditioned” to living in this manufactured environment

Acupuncture recalibrates our systems to operate within the most healthy, natural, and efficient way. Acupuncture doesn’t permit the myriad side effects listed, ad-nauseum, that follow nearly every prescription drug commercial. Acupuncture is truly a method of health for those seasons.