People suffering Depression, Anxiety and Insomnia can find relief with Acupuncture
Emotional disorders cause a tremendous amount of disability throughout the world. In America anxiety accounts for the greatest percentage of prescribed medications, depression causes as much disability as heart disease, and insomnia accounts for much of poor work performance and many driving and work-related accidents. For those people affected by any of these problems (or any combination, since they frequently appear together), life can be not only miserable, but unbearable.
Western medicine has approached the treatment of depression, anxiety and insomnia with mainly pharmaceutical medicines and psychotherapy. Psychotherapy can take many months or years to be helpful, and drugs, though often very effective, frequently have significant adverse side effects.
Acupuncture Treatments can yield Remarkable Results
Oriental physicians have for thousands of years treated these same disorders very successfully with acupuncture. Now many acupuncturists in America have been astonished by how well so many of their patients with depression, anxiety and insomnia respond. Many people feel noticeably better after only a few sessions.
Study after study have confirmed that acupuncture is often as effective as anti-depressants in treating depression, and frequently is more effective than drugs in t,reating anxiety and insomnia. And all without any adverse reactions!
Most studies done over the past 10-20 years have clearly demonstrated that administering acupuncture causes the production and release in the central nervous system and the brain of the same chemicals—serotonin and norepinephrine—that are involved in the chemical treatment of depression by antidepressant drugs. In addition, studies done several years ago have demonstrated increased levels of melatonin after acupuncture. Melatonin is known to reduce both insomnia and anxiety. Many patients have been able to reduce or even stop some of their medications, in consultation with their physicians, after successful acupuncture treatment.
Give Acupuncture a try
A trial of acupuncture for depression, anxiety, or insomnia is well worth the effort for anyone with these problems.
