Chinese Acupuncture could affect ability of brain to regulate pain Acupuncture has been used in East-Asian medicine for nearly thousands of years in order to treat pain. Apparently, conditions may possibly be treated by activating the body’s natural painkillers. However, how it works at the cellular level is mostly unknown. A University of Michigan study … Read more
How does your acupuncture practitioner decide which acupuncture points to treat? Dr. Panchal decides which points to treat by observing and questioning the patient in order to make a diagnosis according to the tradition which he or she utilizes. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are four diagnostic methods: inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiring, and palpation. … Read more
Practiced for more than 3000 years, acupuncture is a healing technique used in traditional Chinese medicine. This non-invasive modality uses hair thin needles inserted at specific points along the pathway, called the body’s meridian, to keep energy, called chi or qi moving through the body in order to restore balance or repair dis-ease. The earliest … Read more
Do You Know How Acupuncture Can Help You? Many people think that acupuncture is “for someone else.” As a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Jignesh Panchal has heard this many times before. “I don’t think acupuncture therapy can help my pain.” But why not? Since traveling around the world and learning a variety of holistic healing … Read more
