Health&Wellness Magazine December 2015 | Page 17

For advertising information visit www.samplerpublications.com or call 859.225.4466 | December 2015 Men Enjoy the Benefits of Acupuncture How can acupuncture help stress, depression, and anxiety? Rather than masking symptoms, acupuncture helps the body heal itself. In Oriental medicine, all dis-ease is due to vital energy (qi) that is either deficient or excessive in various places in the body. Sounds simple, but it’s not. Most people have combinations of both excess and deficient energy manifesting in a variety of ways. This is why you need to seek out a fully educated acupuncturist who has a master’s or doctorate degree in Chinese medicine – someone who can truly understand and customize your acupuncture treatment. When the trained acupuncturist inserts a needle, he/she stimulates the body to transport its healing fluids and its vital energy so the patient moves into a more harmonious state. Your practitioner may also recommend dietary changes or a Chinese herbal formula to increase the effectiveness of the acupuncture. Most men don’t pay attention to their prostate gland until they have problems such as frequent, painful or nighttime urination and/or dribbling urine. Leading national and international health organizations recommend acupuncture as an effective treatment. In younger, asymptomatic men, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine can also be used preventatively. We can proactively prevent both prostatitis as well as enlargement of the prostate (BPH). cine; however, a trained practitioner may also inquire about palpitations, the color of your urine, a heavy feeling in the scrotum and your thirst levels to determine if the heart, spleen or liver meridians (energy pathways) are also involved. FYI, many of the medications currently used for ED can potentially exacerbate the problem by creating medication dependencies. Getting to the underlying imbalances of ED may start making a lot more sense when all this is considered. What about male infertility? Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine are also useful for correcting imbalances related to male infertility, such as low sperm count, poor sperm motility/morphology and premature ejaculation. When addressing your health needs, please join many other men and consider using this