How equine acupuncture works

13-11-2009

It does not work via nerves or some physical chemical response.

Here is the best way to explain how it works.

Consider your house. Flowing through it is air. You cannot see it but you can feel it, and you certainly know when it's not there. Within the body are also flowing airs. As you breath you are making them also "breath" and flow. You cannot see them. You cannot cut them and you cannot find them in a dead body. As they flow, they irrigate the parts of the physical body that they flow by, and also have an effect on the blood flow. They are the intelligence of the body, "body intelligence". These airs are what is called chi, meaning Life or life-force.

Acupuncture has mapped these airs in detail and learned how to make use of them.

Back to our house example. If you lock the doors and windows and go away for a week or two, when you return it is very stuffy. This is like an illness in the body. Clearing the illness is akin to opening the doors and windows in the house to make the airs flow again.

The art of acupuncture is knowing exactly which of the doors or windows to open to get result desired in the minimum time.

These doors and windows in the body are called the points of acupuncture, and each has its own particular qualities and effects and "rooms" of influence, to allow airs to flow.

Allan offers home and professional equine acupuncture courses throughout Australia.

Visit his website www.horse-acupuncture.com