Can Acupuncture Repair Damaged Kidneys
Acupuncture is one of seven Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) therapies. In recent years, acupuncture has been used more and more widely in kidney disease treatment. Is it helpful to repair damaged kidneys?
The action mechanism of acupuncture
In China, acupuncture has more than 2,000 years' history, and it works through three aspects.
1. Dredging the channel: The basic acupuncture function is to make blocked channel deoppilant and working normally again, while the basic physiological function of channel is making Qi and blood running. Once channel is blocked, patients will suffer from pain, numbness, swelling, and ecchymosis easily.
2. Regulating Yin and Yang: The ultimate purpose of acupuncture is to improve the balance of Yin and Yang. The pathogenesis of diseases is complex, but it can be concluded into Yin-Yang imbalance. The method of regulating Yin-Yang in acupuncture is achieved through improving channel, yin and yang attribute, acupuncture point compatibility and acupuncture manipulation.
3. Strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil: The progression and normalization of disease is one process that the body resistance and evil fights against each other. Acupuncture focuses on strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil.
What can acupuncture do for impaired kidneys?
Acupuncture can help improve the blood circulation all over the body and boost patients' ability to fight against various diseases, so it can help do a lot to manage kidney disease symptoms and complications. However, acupuncture is not enough to repair damaged kidney cells and rebuild kidney structure. Therefore, acupuncture should be used to support the whole kidney treatment rather than being the whole kidney disease treatment.
If patients want to repair impaired kidneys, they should also seek some therapies that can increase the renal self-healing ability, and normalize the blood circulation all over the body including kidneys. Finally, kidney patients can find their kidney problems are reversed successfully. Best wishes to all of our kidney patients.
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