Allergy Itching Gone With Acupuncture
Health Lifestyle March 8th, 2010
,Acupuncture usually done to relieve headaches, sore or make the body feel better. Now that acupuncture can relieve itching due to allergies or eczema disease.
Eczema is a general term to refer to skin conditions which become inflamed, dry, red and itchy. The most common forms for people who have eczema are prone to allergies, fever or asthma.
In a recent study, researchers from Germany wanted to see the short-term effects of acupuncture on inflammatory skin conditions and itching of the 30 people who have atopic eczema (chronic allergies).
Found that acupuncture therapy is done for a few minutes on the skin of patients with allergies can reduce the itching caused. In addition, if the patient has an allergy again after doing acupuncture tend to have skin reactions lighter. This is reported in the Journal Allergy.
“These findings were obtained are subjective in reducing itching in people with allergies or atopic eczema, because the 30 participants get a different test conditions,” said Dr. Florian Pfab from the Technical University of Munich, as quoted by Reuters on Thursday (24/12 / 2009).
One group of patients with itching due to allergies get acupuncture correctly, the needles are placed at points which, according to China-related treatment of itching in the skin. The second group, patients receive acupuncture needle position was not based on China’s treatment while the third group did not receive acupuncture treatment.
Pfab and overall team found that the level of the lowest itching obtained in one group, namely getting acupuncture with the points right compared with the group two and three. Then when there is itching again, the resulting skin reactions are not too heavy after acupuncture with specific points.
Acupuncture is a treatment technique that has been used since 2000 years ago to treat various diseases. By using point-specific acupuncture points on the skin, will stimulate healthy energy to enter the body’s internal network.
Modern research has also shown acupuncture can help ease the pain by altering signals among nerve cells or affecting the issuance of various chemicals from the central nervous system.
