Acupuncture Improves Sex Drive And Decreases Hot Flashes
Acupuncture treatment is effective at boosting the sex drive and overall sense of well-being in women undergoing intensive breast cancer treatments. A recent study conducted by Henry Ford Hospital in Michigan revealed that acupuncture has even more benefits than previously thought for patients with breast cancer.
In the journal of Oncology, the study highlights the superiority of acupuncture in improving the quality of life. The Women Patients suffering from breast cancer without imposing side effects, acupuncture has helped in improving cancer.
Dr. Eleanor Walker, lead author of the study and division director of breast services in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Henry Ford, confirmed this to be true when explaining the details of the study.
There are two groups, one receiving acupuncture for the symptoms and the other receiving Veklafaxine drug therapy, were observed over a 12 week period. Initially, all the women experienced a 50 percent reduction in hot flash and night sweat symptoms. At the end of the treatment period, however, the group that received Veklafaxine experienced an immediate increase in symptoms while the acupuncture group did not.
The intention of the study was to focus on alternative treatments to Veklafaxine that would better alleviate the negative side effects of the breast cancer treatment and ultimately encourage women to continue participating in it.
Since conventional treatment is long and difficult, researchers hope to alleviate some of the associated misery with methods other than drug therapies that only make the situation more difficult. As far as the National Cancer Institute is concern, 13%of women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime.
Another clinical study scientifically demonstrates the power of acupuncture to make real, measureable improvements in the health and lives of patients.
Acupuncture has been used safely and effectively for over five thousand years in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It’s no surprise, of course: hundreds of clinical trials conducted over the last twenty years have shown it to be remarkably safe and effective. Acupuncture is very effective treating a variety of health complaints from back pain to infertility.
It works because the body reacts to stimulation with a healing response. This is actually the part of the reason acupuncture works. An acupuncturist who is very skilled can initiate a healing response in the patient that no drug, no medical surgery or medical invention can.
This is the biggest interesting part of acupuncture treatment: It doesn’t do any healing. Acupuncture will stimulate the body naturally, rather. This actually never happens in the medicines. The medicines actually continue to follow the long-outmoded belief that the doctor heals the patient and that, astonishingly, the patient has no role in his or her own healing.
Acupuncturists had known thousands of years ago what many westerns did not know. The patient is the healer. The doctor is merely an initiator of the patient’s own self-healing ability.
