ACUPUNCTURE BENEFITS DURING PREGNANCY

Acupuncture and phytotherapy help

pregnant women get through their pregnancy
more easily, but especially they help fetus
develop harmoniously by revigorating
mother’s body and metabolism and by
improving her immune functions. They also
treat pregnancy-related complications, such
as: risk of miscarriage, gestational diabetes,
toxemia of pregnancy , preecclampsia,
respiratory viroses, urinary infections, iron-
deficiency anemia, etc. There are no side
effects or contraindications; the acupuncturist
will merely avoid to stimulate certain
acupoints.

It Cleanses and Detoxifies the Body

One of the benefits that may be derived from traditional therapies during pregnancy is
cleansing and detoxification of the body. In its life, the human body accumulates cell residues
(deposits of dead cells and toxins) in its tissues, a process impairing the organic activity and
causing fatigue, immune deficiencies, metabolic disorders, etc. Acupuncture and phytotherapy
improve mother’s health by eliminating these deposits; thus, they make it possible for a fetus
to develop in a clean healthy body.

It Reinvigorates the Body and It Improves Mother’s Immunity

Hormonal changes and adjustment of the body to pregnancy cause general fatigue.
Very many pregnant women hardly cope with their daily activities, especially if they have to
carry on with their professional activity during pregnancy. These states of asthenia are treated
by a combination of acupuncture sessions with reinvigorating effects and certain medicinal
herbs with tonifying and revitalizing effects that improve the activity of the central nervous

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system and of the muscular system. At the same time, they improve the immune functions and
protect the body against the action of the pathogen agents from the environment: viruses,
bacteria, sun radiations, toxins and pollution.

It Ameliorates Pains and Sickness

In medical practice, acupuncture is often employed to relieve pains. Activation of

certain acupoints stimulates the endorphin secretion, a neurotransmitter with strong analgesic
action. In combination with certain herbs, the effects of the endorphins are directed to make
human psychic relax and to soothe the pains in the backbone or in other areas of the body.
Sickness sensations are reduced by equilibrating the energy centres that coordinate the
activity of the digestive system.

It Treats Depression and Anxiety

As they tonify the nervous system, normalize the endocrine activity, equilibrate the
psychic life and revitalize the body, acupuncture and phytotherapy fight depression and
anxiety. The treatment also helps prevent post-partum depression, a disorder that occurs on
the background of the hormonal changes in the body and of the body’s exhaustion following
child delivery. The acupuncturist will also accelerate secretion of serotonin (the hormone of
happiness), a neurotransmitter involved in the activity of the central nervous system, which
plays a major part in maintaining the psycho-affective balance and in preventing depression
and anxiety.

It Regulates Blood Pressure

The hormonal changes trigger blood pressure disorders. Therefore, during pregnancy,
there may occur suffocation sensations, palpitations, arrhythmias and a raised blood pressure.
Stabilization of blood pressure will prevent preecclampsia.

It Fights Migraines and Effects of Stress

Stress has a harmful effect upon the body, impairing mother’s and fetus’ organic
activity, disrupting the metabolic changes, darkening the cognitive activities and overworking
the nervous system. Together with the hormonal changes, these physiological processes
frequently cause migraines during pregnancy. They may be treated by normalizing the
oxygenation and the cerebral, organic and tissular vascularisation as well as by increasing the
serotonin production (neurotransmitter that also coordinates dilation of capillaries and
permeability of the small vessels).

It Prevents and Treats Edemas. It Controls Body Weight

In the last months of pregnancy, suddenly or within one or two weeks appears the
edema – a painless swelling, caused by accumulation of serous liquid in organs and tissues. In
most of the cases it appears in the lower limbs or in the hands. Adipose tissue deposits are a
frequent characteristic with pregnancy manifestations. Depending on food regimes, hydration,
physical activity and health condition, a woman will gain more or less kilograms. Edema is

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prevented and treated by improving lymphatic drainage, metabolic processes and renal
functions. In order to control body weight, we shall act at energy level upon the centres
regulating appetite, assimilation of food and use of the alimentary nutrients in the body so that
mother’s body should assimilate the necessary amount of nutrients from food in the most
efficient way possible.

In Post-Partum Period, It Helps Mother Recover

Acupuncture and phytotherapy speed up the processes of tissular and organic

regeneration; they also make possible a quicker post-partum recovery, both in the case of
natural births and in the case of caesarian section. There have also been very good results in
lactation stimulation, mastitis prevention, diminishing the flow of post-partum metrorrhages;
in stabilizing the hormonal secretions and normalization of menstruation.

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