🦋 It’s Simple:
Acupuncture reduces symptoms of immune disorders, promotes faster healing, and aides in normalizing the body’s immune response.
📃Common immune disorders include:
- frequent colds, allergies, asthma, autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and immune deficiency syndrome.
☝Many of these disorders are brought on by lack of vitamins (including C and D, as well as B vitamins), changes in the weather (i.e. cold weather, or spring time), stress, and having a poor diet.
HOW DOES ACUPUNCTURE HELP? 🤔
🩸 Acupuncture increases the amount of both red and white blood cells, as well as T cells, in the body. These cells work to destroy harmful bacteria and viruses that may enter the body. With an influx of T cells, the body is able to focus on healing more quickly and efficiently to regulate the body’s immunity.
In addition to reducing immune disorder symptoms and increasing immune cells, acupuncture treatments provide stress relief by stimulating the brain and autonomic nervous system (the one that controls breathing, your heartbeat, and digestive system) through specialized puncture points. 😌
Stress can have harmful effects on the immune system over time, so, regular acupuncture treatments will not only relieve stress but add to the regulation of your body’s immunity.
💪THE MORE YOU KNOW: The cellular response that’s stimulated by acupuncture treatments can last for several days after the treatment; this means that receiving regular acupuncture treatments can lessen your chance of getting sick and keep your immune system at its best.
Resources:
Hailin Wu, P., 2021. Acupuncture for Immune System Treatment. [online] Amcollege.edu. Available at: <https://www.amcollege.edu/blog/acupuncture-can-strengthen-the-immune-system> [Accessed 11 August 2021].
Lenahan, A., 2021. How Acupuncture Can Help Your Immune System – Acupuncture Practice of Robert F. Lenahan. [online] Acupuncture Practice of Robert F. Lenahan. Available at: <https://acupuncture-practice.com/how-acupuncture-can-help-your-immune-system/> [Accessed 11 August 2021].