Nowadays, more than 20000 practitioners from the United States alone are allowed to do acupuncture. The National Institutes of Health says that there are more than 2000 acupuncture points on the body connecting with 12 main and 8 secondary pathways called meridians. These are said to conduct energy, chi or qi, between the surface of the body and the internal organs. Qi is responsible for regulating the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical balance of a human. Another explication, more scientific, states that the needles used in acupuncture stimulate in a positive way, the muscles and the nervous system, the spinal cord and even the brain. …show more content…
There is even a scientific explanation about acupuncture and depression, and how one can treat the other. Experiments have been carried out by different scientists on different sets of people, mostly woman, who were suffering from depression. …show more content…
Many subjects mentioned that they were feeling very well after the acupuncture treatment, and proved once again that acupuncture and depression worked for them. Many of them realized that a treatment with acupuncture needles is more efficient and less expensive than a treatment with anti