Within Chinese medicine one of its strengths is acupuncture. In this country it has been practiced for more than 5,000 years, in the rest of the world it began to be done much later. In Europe, it could be said that it was not until the end of the 20th century when this alternative medicinal activity began to take place.
Acupuncture entails the practice session itself and a questioning of each patient, so that the treatment is completely personalized and unique. It works with the energetic layers of the body, thus stimulating certain areas and calming others. Thus, it is capable of relieving the strong menstrual pains that many women suffer.
Acupuncture to relieve menstrual pain
- Many studies have shown that acupuncture may be better at relieving this type of pain than medicines or herbal tablets. The reason is that this medicinal activity stimulates the production of endorphins and serotonin in the central nervous system. Endorphins produce well-being in women and serotonin is a brain neurotransmitter.
- The pain occurs. on many occasions, due to cooling in the lower part of the belly and in the kidneys. In this way, acupuncturists affirm that it is good to heat that area with the help of moxa on top of the needles. Moxa is a therapy that includes the artemisia plant in practice, it is shaped into a cigar and lit to combust and get heat.
- Although acupuncture has been shown to be a good option for many women, medical experts in the rest of the world are quite wary of this technique, which seems to have been all the rage in recent years.
