How does acupuncture work as an analgesic?

How do acupuncture points work? How does it reduce pain? What if you want to increase pain using acupuncture?

  • Basically i want to know how you can use acupuncture for torture?

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    The classical explanation for how acupuncture points work is that correct stimulation of the correct point will open up blockages of the flow of energy (and there-after physical things like blood because the energy leads).   Since the body is mostly self-regulating, opening up these blockages stimulates your body to heal itself.    So healing happens as a side-effect of putting the needles in your body at certain key points,  Btw, same thing can and is done without needles. To cause pain and use acupuncture for torture would not really be efficient.  You'd have to learn quite a bit about how to tweak the energy in such an extreme manner so as to actually cause distress leading to pain - not easy; the nature of the system is to regulate.  So it'd be easier to use a lot of needles to just simply cause pain because of puncture or take your intent to torture seriously and use like, knives, you know? Better to take a deep breath, shake off these thoughts, and maybe get some acupuncture to clear the head!

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Acupuncture directly targets the nerve and endocrine system. In turn, it effects our immune function, metabolism, etc. So far, we found that acupuncture can regulate every part of the body on every level: from system, organ, tissue, cellular, to molecular level. Anatomically, more than 95% of points are more or less related to the nervous system. It can directly regulate the concentration of neurotransmitters. In terms of pain, it can increase our ability to tolerate the pain by increasing the level of endorphins in our CNS. It can also decrease the concentration of the pain substances in the painful area. Regardless, it can also ease up the inflammation. Clinically, when people come to our office for acupuncture, we can almost 100% guarantee the needle will not hurt at all because we know that the patient's body channel is blocked or with poor circulation, hence their sensation is very dull. After a few sessions of acupuncture treatment, the blockage opened,  circulation improved, and the patient felt more sensitive towards acupuncture. We are not sure if this answers your question to increasing pain.

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