|
|
Acupuncture for coughs, colds & bronchitis
Breathing freely again Acupuncture for coughs, colds, bronchitis; the miseries of the British winter! Nothing's going to make having a cold any fun at all, but acupuncture can often be really helpful in relieving symptoms including runny nose, headaches, sinus congestion, cough, and phlegm.
If we treat when you're just 'sickening', before a fully-fledged cold, acupuncture may even be able to stop the cold coming on, or reduce the severity compared to what would usually happen for you.
Meanwhile acupuncture addresses your health holistically, aiming to strengthen you and bring you back into better balance, so you'll hopefully be more resistant to the bugs going around. This can be particularly useful if you tend towards frequent or lengthy coughs and colds.
Contact Jessica
Other conditions Acupuncture can help with a wide range of health problems, click below to find out more:
Detailed references (1) http://www.acupuncture-schools.us/national-institute-health-nih-acupuncture.cfm, referring to World Health Organisation (2002). Acupuncture: Review and Analysis of Reports on Controlled Clinical Trial, see http://apps.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?sesslan=1&codlan=1&codcol=93&codcch=196 (2) Rampes (2001). The safety of acupuncture. British Medical Journal 2001;323(7311):467 (1 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7311.467, see http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/323/7311/467 (3) From the 'About Us' area of the Clinical Evidence BMJ website, page titled 'How much do we know', http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp. Extract at Oct 2009: "So what can Clinical Evidence tell us about the state of our current knowledge? What proportion of commonly used treatments are supported by good evidence, what proportion should not be used or used only with caution, and how big are the gaps in our knowledge? Of around 2500 treatments covered 13% are rated as beneficial, 23% likely to be beneficial, 8% as trade off between benefits and harms, 6% unlikely to be beneficial, 4% likely to be ineffective or harmful, and 46%, the largest proportion, as unknown effectiveness" © Jessica Kennedy 2005-09, all rights reserved |