Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Veterinary Acupuncture Tips

Veterinary Acupuncture Tips
Veterinary acupuncture is the treatment of pets like cats,
dogs and horses. Acupuncture is a part of Chinese medicine
use to diagnosis and treat animals and people. This
treatment is known as the traditional Chinese medicine. It
is a holistic approach to the cure of chronic diseases in
patients. This treatment considers the patient as an
organism having unified energetic parts rather than
considering individual body parts for the treatment. In
veterinary acupuncture, animals are also considered as a
whole-unit consisting of body, mind, diet, spirit, and
environment.

Generally, the holistic approach of this medicine helps to
explain this ancient medical approach. In conventional
medicinal treatments, doctors tend to analyze the symptoms
and according to the diagnosis, the physician addresses the
problem by trying to cure the symptoms. On the contrary,
holistic or acupuncture therapy looks at the symptoms and
tries to find out the causes of the symptoms that are
present.

By diagnosing the symptoms, it tries to discover the root
cause of that symptom and according to that, treatment is
given. This therapy is the best alternative to the western
veterinary medicine. Holistic approach can bring good total
health and welfare to your pets. Some times this treatment
also includes the conventional methods. Traditional
medicine treatment generally includes acupuncture and herbs
along with certain other techniques to balance the body and
allow the animals to cure.

Along with these, other techniques are also used to cure
the animals. These treatments consist of laser stimulation,
electric stimulation, and many more. Acupuncture and herbal
medicinal treatment have been in practice for thousands of
years by the Chinese. This treatment has now been greatly
accepted by U.S, practitioners to cure animals as well as
the humans. In this treatment, the accupoints are
stimulated and then treated with the herbal medicines.

In acupuncture therapy, needles are pierced in certain
points that are called the accupoints. This piercing
stimulates those points and the stimulation cures the
diseases. This is the manual treatment to cure a disease.
In the electric treatments, passing electric currents
through the needles stimulates the accupoints. These
needles are treated as the electrodes. The current passing
stimulates the point. Another method to stimulate the
points is by laser method.

These are the certain methods to stimulate the accupoints
and treat the disease. Acupuncture or traditional Chinese
medicines are good for diagnosing diseases and treating
them. Acupuncture shows the effects according to the time
and after certain time the disease will cure. Generally,
this treatment is use to cure the diseases of cats, dogs
and horses but some physicians use this treatment to cure
small pets like birds, ferrets and rabbits.

Generally, the acupuncture therapy is done with the help of
needles made of metal. The weight of the needle is about
28gm to 30gm. These needles are sharp and used to prick
certain accupoints on the skin. Penetration depth of the
needles in the skin of the animal is about 1/2" to 3/4".
This penetration helps to stimulate the points leading to
the cure of the animal.


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Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese practice used to cure
many medical conditions. Learn more about acupuncture by
visiting http://about-acupuncture.blogspot.com

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