Acupuncture for Dogs
Healing Canine Illness
What is acupuncture for dogs besides an ancient alternative medicine? Why do over 150,000 veterinarians now use it to cure canine illness and gain pain relief?Acupuncture is something I would love to try. Having grown up with Western Allopathic Medicine, I am embarrassed to admit I assumed it was some crazy painful thing to do. Boy, was I wrong. Used for over 3500 years in China, acupuncture was known in the United States back in the 1800s and used for a variety of illnesses. By the 1940s when antibiotics came into existence, acupuncture and all other alternative medicine practices fell by the wayside.
As awareness of long term side effects from allopathic drugs grows, more people are seeking alternative medicine for themselves and their pets. Today nearly 3 million medical practitioners, assistants and pharmacists are trained in acupuncture. Of this number it is estimated that 150,000 are veterinarians and 700,000 are para-veterinary assistants.
What is canine Acupuncture?
Acupuncture for dogs is the insertion of fine needles at specific points on the body to alleviate pain and open energy channels for healing dog illness. There are twelve basic meridians and specific points along each. Here is a picture from Dr Ellen Schmidt's website called
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The 12 Major Meridians and two vessels are:
Governor Vessel (GV)
Conception Vessel (CV)
Heart (HT)
Pericardium (PC)
Lung (LU)
Small Intestine (SI)
Large Intestine (LI)
Kidney (KI)
Stomach (ST)
Liver (LR)
Spleen (SP)
Gallbladder (GB)
Bladder (BL)
Triple Energiser (TE)
Like in all forms of alternative medicine, a dog acupuncturist treats the body as a whole instead of seeing a problem with one specific part of the body.
Benefit of Acupuncture
The following are examples of clinical conditions where veterinary acupuncture may be used. - Neurological disorders: epilepsy, stroke, deafness, coma.
- Urinary disorders: incontinence, cystitis, urine retention.
- Musculoskeletal disorders: chronic degenerative joint disease, intervertebral disc disease, hip dysplasia, tendonitis, sprains and muscle spasms
- Reproductive and metabolic disorders: ovarian cysts, uterine prolapse, mastitis, udder edema, milk fever, hepatitis, jaundice.
- Immunosuppressive and allergic disorders.
- Gastrointestinal disorders, gastroenteritis, colitis, rectal prolapse, chronic idiopathic diarrhea or vomiting.
- Respiratory problems: rhinitis, sinusitis, laryngitis epistaxis, bronchial asthma, chronic coughing, pneumonia.
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