On Pins and NeedlesYou can honestly say Shasta Tierra's patients are on pins and
needles. One afternoon last week, Gilroy resident Marie Doherty laid on
her stomach on top of a low table in the licensed acupuncturist's
center in San Jose. Soft New Age music from compact disc gave a
tranquil ambiance to the comfortably lit room. Tierra began placing a
double row of plastic cups on Doherty's back, using a small suction
device to pull the air out of each cup. The skin bulged up inside the
cups due to the sudden decrease in pressure. BENEFITS OF ACUPUNCTUREAcupuncture creates numerous benefits for its patients, Tierra said. It helps people to increase their energy and lose weight and help with gynecological disorders, allergies and asthma. "If we can relax the back muscles (through acupuncture), then the lungs will move better," she said. "The whole idea of Chinese medicine is to help body heal itself." The alternative medicine can also help alleviate digestive disorders, headaches and migraines. Putting the body back into a stable state also help the mind, she said. People suffering from anxiety, depression negative mental conditions. "The healthier we are, the more balanced our energy is, and the more peaceful we feel," she said. And instead of getting a Beverly Hills facelift thousands of dollars, acupuncture can improve the appearance of patients for a lot less money. Benefit include increasing the collagen levels in a person eliminating fine lines, maintaining youthful skin improving muscle tone. It also helps life drooping eyelids and decrease dark circles under the eyes.Acupuncture is also used as a treatment for addictions, Tierra said. More than 20 hospital in the United State have incorporated acupuncture their substance abuse treatment programs. It's also in the correctional system with several prisons use acupuncture to treat addiction. "This is very effective for drug addiction and not addiction because it release the endorphins and decrease the person's craving a lot," she said. Some people believe acupuncture works as a placebo but this is not the case, Tierra said. Acupuncture has had effective results on animals, which do not the psychological state to believe acupuncture's to heal making it a placebo. "This works regardless if you think it will work or not," she said.
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