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Veterinary Acupuncture Tips

By Erica J Miles

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Published: 19Mar2008
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Veterinary acupuncture is the treatment of pets like cats, dogs and horses. Acupuncture is a part of Chinese medicine use to diagnosis and treat animals and people. This treatment is known as the traditional Chinese medicine. It is a holistic approach to the cure of chronic diseases in patients. This treatment considers the patient as an organism having unified energetic parts rather than considering individual body parts for the treatment. In veterinary acupuncture, animals are also considered as a whole-unit consisting of body, mind, diet, spirit, and environment.

Generally, the holistic approach of this medicine helps to explain this ancient medical approach. In conventional medicinal treatments, doctors tend to analyze the symptoms and according to the diagnosis, the physician addresses the problem by trying to cure the symptoms. On the contrary, holistic or acupuncture therapy looks at the symptoms and tries to find out the causes of the symptoms that are present.

By diagnosing the symptoms, it tries to discover the root cause of that symptom and according to that, treatment is given. This therapy is the best alternative to the western veterinary medicine. Holistic approach can bring good total health and welfare to your pets. Some times this treatment also includes the conventional methods. Traditional medicine treatment generally includes acupuncture and herbs along with certain other techniques to balance the body and allow the animals to cure.

Along with these, other techniques are also used to cure the animals. These treatments consist of laser stimulation, electric stimulation, and many more. Acupuncture and herbal medicinal treatment have been in practice for thousands of years by the Chinese. This treatment has now been greatly accepted by U.S, practitioners to cure animals as well as the humans. In this treatment, the accupoints are stimulated and then treated with the herbal medicines.

In acupuncture therapy, needles are pierced in certain points that are called the accupoints. This piercing stimulates those points and the stimulation cures the diseases. This is the manual treatment to cure a disease. In the electric treatments, passing electric currents through the needles stimulates the accupoints. These needles are treated as the electrodes. The current passing stimulates the point. Another method to stimulate the points is by laser method.

These are the certain methods to stimulate the accupoints and treat the disease. Acupuncture or traditional Chinese medicines are good for diagnosing diseases and treating them. Acupuncture shows the effects according to the time and after certain time the disease will cure. Generally, this treatment is use to cure the diseases of cats, dogs and horses but some physicians use this treatment to cure small pets like birds, ferrets and rabbits.

Generally, the acupuncture therapy is done with the help of needles made of metal. The weight of the needle is about 28gm to 30gm. These needles are sharp and used to prick certain accupoints on the skin. Penetration depth of the needles in the skin of the animal is about 1/2" to 3/4". This penetration helps to stimulate the points leading to the cure of the animal.

Acupuncture is a ancient chinese practice used to cure many medical conditions. Visit About Acupuncture to learn more about the many different forms of acupuncture.

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