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Acupuncture Treats and Preserves Mental and Emotional Health
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medical and clinical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2577-8005
DOI - 10.33140/mcr.04.06.03
Subject(s) - worry , anxiety , acupuncture , mental health , depression (economics) , psychiatry , mental illness , psychology , medicine , psychotherapist , alternative medicine , clinical psychology , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
Both energetic medicine (acupuncture) and allopathic medicinerecognize more and more the effect of the mental and emotions inphysiology. We live in times full of fear, worry, stress, depression,anxiety and exhaustion. Often these emotions contribute to or evencause the patient’s illness. Moreover, the pervasive use of moodstabilizing drugs further complicates diagnosis and treatment.Energetic medicine inherently explains the impact of emotionalimbalance on overall health. Now more than ever, it is imperativeto understand how to include the emotions in the diagnosis and toincorporate the mental in the treatment for all patients.