SELF-HEALING POTENTIAL
Self-Healing Potential and Positive Response to Acupuncture Treatment
Keep in mind that acupuncture therapy activates the built-in survival mechanisms of the body: the self-healing potential. Thus, acupuncture is effective for those symptoms that can be completely or partially healed by the body. All of us inherit the self-healing potential for biological survival, which is modified by genetic make-up, medical history, lifestyle and age. This means each of us has a different self-healing capacity that is dynamically changing. Health will deteriorate if one abuses it or conversely will improve if one takes good care. Therefore, the possibility of acupuncture therapy working for you is based on:
(1) The status of the self-healing potential of your body
(2) The potential healabilty of the symptoms (e.g., acute pain will resolve faster than chronic pain, younger persons will heal faster than older patients.)
This explains why some of you will respond differently to the same acupuncture treatment and why you may need more or less treatments than others being treated for a similar condition. Understanding these basic physiological facts will help keep your expectations reasonable and your attitude positive.
Years of clinical research have shown that pain and inflammatory conditions respond very well to acupuncture. Please read the following two paragraphs so that you understand why this is so.
