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HEALTH REPORT
BREATHE EASIER WITH ACUPUNCTURE!
From helping asthmatics reduce their incidence of attacks to supporting those who are trying to quit smoking, Acupuncturetreatments can help Americans breathe easier.
More than 15 million Americans suffer from asthma. They may find the same relief from Acupuncture treatment reportedby Michael Arsenault, L.Ac. from Woburn, Massachusetts. Hereported that one of his patients, lifelong asthma sufferer VivianBenson was able to nearly eliminate all her dependence onprescriptions. After six weeks of once-weekly treatments and then a monthly treatment after that, Vivian reported, “My asthma was betterthan it’s been in ten years. I have inhalers for emergencies; Ihaven’t had to use the Flovent or Proventil for two or threemonths now.” Havey Morgan has been a smoker for 27 years, starting when he was eleven years old. He told a reporter from televisionstation KTRE in Texas that he had “quit every year, two or threetimes a year, from the time I was 20. I was a hopeless case. Ididn’t quit until I finally found acupuncture. It was acupuncturethat got me to quit.” “I think it saved my life,” he added, stating that even now, fifteen years later, “I still don’t have the lung capacity I wouldhave if I hadn’t smoked.” SOURCE: TownOnline, http://www2.townonline.com/reading/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=173714 KTRE.9 website: http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=285068&nav=2FH5VXyu David Singer Enterprises, 1130 Cleveland St., Suite 210, Clearwater, FL 33755 1-800-326-1797 HEALTH REPORT
VOLUME 10
ASTHMA PATIENTS BREATHE EASIER WITH ACUPUNCTURE
There may be very good news for asthma sufferers given the results of a test recently conducted by the China Academy of Chinese MedicalSciences in Beijing. This study showed that Acupuncture treatment couldbe used to significantly improve breathing ability.
The goal of the study was to determine if pulmonary (lung) function could be positively affected through Acupuncture treatment further affect-ing the portion of the nervous system that controls functions like the beat-ing of the heart, digestion and breathing. This is known as the “vegetativenervous system.” Seventy-one chronic asthma patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups for the purpose of the experiment. Both groups continued toreceive their anti-asthmatic medicine. However, a group of 40 receivedAcupuncture treatments in addition to their medication while 31 made upthe control group and received no Acupuncture.
The researchers were interested in noting both pulmonary function improvements as well as heart rate variability changes as a result of theAcupuncture. Both were tested at the start and conclusion of the study. What they learned was that both lung function and the function of the vegetative nervous system were “significantly superior to that in the con-trol group after treatment.” From the conclusions of the study, a person suffering from the effects of asthma may wish to consider the options provided through Acupuncturetherapy when seeking relief. Acupuncture could offer significant improve-ment to the lungs and positively affect the function of the entire vegetativenervous system as well.
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