Vital Health Benefits and Uses of Acupuncture Treatment

It is commonly believed that acupuncture had it's beginnings in China over 5000 years ago. The earliest tools used for production of food and other purposes also began to be used to treat pain and disease and were known as "bian". During the Han Dynasty (206 BC to AD 220) bian was defined as follows: "Bian means using stone to treat disease." With time and advances in the understanding of body structure and other procedures such as the introduction of advanced tools and metals, stones were replaced with needles made from bone or bamboo and later with needles made from bronze. Today needles are made from various metals including surgical steel. It was in the 1600's that traveling missionaries in China observed doctors using needles to cause beneficial healing effects and other changes in the body and the techniques were carried back to France.Following the needling observations made by the missionaries, the other methods utilized in meridian therapy were also observed and adopted and are currently used in various ways throughout the world. Health benefits of Acupuncture treatment include gives immediate and lasting relief from severe menstrual cramps, cures allergies and asthma, in treating excruciating pain from rupturing cysts and cramps etc. Acupuncture is widely understood to be a non-traditional (not a traditional part of western medicine) treatment option for back pain or neck pain.