Acupuncturist Chapel Hill, NC
Acupuncture benefits digestion in several vital ways. At Acupractic Natural Healing Center, the acupuncture and chiropractic offices of Lisa Oskardmay DC, Lac in Chapel Hill, we strive to help people achieve good digestion naturally. We understand digestion is a natural process and believe a healthy body can digest food safely and well. We help patients improve many aspects of digestion to get healthier and stay healthier. Read more to learn about how acupuncture helps digestive health.
What is Digestion?
Digestion is the breakdown of large insoluble food compounds into small water-soluble components to be absorbed into the blood plasma. These smaller food substances are absorbed through the small intestine into the bloodstream. When digestion suffers, the entire body and mind suffer.
Digestion involves assimilating food into our bodies to assist our muscles, brain, skin, and other tissues. Mechanical digestion involves the physical breakdown of food in the mouth by chewing larger pieces of food into smaller pieces, and digestive enzymes break down further in chemical digestion.
How Does Acupuncture Help Digestion?
Applied to the channels affecting the jaw and face, acupuncture and acupuncture massage help reduce pain, making chewing less problematic and painful. Acupuncture along the channels impacting the stomach helps this crucial organ break down and change food more thoroughly. Through its impact on the fire channel, acupuncture helps the small intestine organize and process nutrients that pass through this organ. Acupuncture applied to the metal channel supports holding onto beneficial nutrients while releasing waste through the large intestine.
We see the function of the water channel affecting digestion in its role of nervous system control and in the role of water itself. Through its impact on the water element, acupuncture involves the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, the breakdown and building up aspects of the system, and influencing the balance of stress and relaxation in digestion. Significantly, through the wood channel pathways, acupuncture can help propel food through the system via the muscles of the body and impact the immune system via the wood element itself.
Digestion is a multifaceted process that affects one’s entire being. When a patient uses acid reducers to allay the symptoms of acid reflux or antibiotics to kill harmful bacteria, there are side effects on the whole person. When a person experiences stress that causes gastritis or stomach upset, there are ways to manage the symptoms that are not harmful to the person.
Acupuncture can help improve digestion by helping heal the whole person naturally with less emphasis on drugs or surgery.
At Acupractic Natural Healing Center, we’ve helped people resolve digestive disorders since 1995 using a variety of acupuncture and other hands-on holistic treatments. Call today at (919) 929-1400, M-F 8:30-5:30, to learn more about how acupuncture helps digestive health and to see how acupuncture can help you return to a healthier you. Visit us on the web at acudocnc.com to schedule online 24 hours a day. We look forward to helping you.