Acupuncture for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Acupuncture has helped thousands of patients restore energy and obtain better health, and now it is being used to help treat Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.

Pelvic Inflammatory disease (or PID) is a term used to describe the infection of the female uterus, fallopian tubes, and/or ovaries.

Allowing Pelvic Inflammatory Disease to go unchecked or untreated can result in numerous health problems, including infertility.

How Acupuncture Treats Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

PID can at times be quite painful, and in this area especially acupuncture can be of great use.

Acupuncture is thought to decrease pain within the body by increasing the release of endorphins.

Endorphins are the name of the chemicals that the body produces naturally to block pain.

Many of the points used in acupuncture are located close to nerves.

When these points are stimulated through the use of small needles being inserted into the surface of the skin, or through the use of small electrical currents (electro acupuncture) these nerves cause a dull ache in the muscle.

Next, the muscle sends a message to the brain and spinal cord calling for the release of endorphins.

When these endorphins are released, they block the message of pain from being sent to the brain.

Use Acupuncture for Pain Management

But, pain management is not the only reason to try acupuncture for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.

A Chinese medical practitioner will assist with pain management, and may offer some herbal supplements to help manage the pain as well, but in addition to treating the pain, they will focus on the underlying cause of the pain, understanding that any discomfort is merely a symptom of a larger problem within the body.

In refusing to look at pain in this manner, many conventional, Western doctors, although very well meaning, can cause more harm than good by over prescribing heavy narcotics and pain medicine.

Check With Your Doctor

It is often recommended that acupuncture for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease be combined with treatment from a doctor in order to shorten treatment length and stop PID from developing into the more serious chronic form of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.

If you are considering trying acupuncture for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, check with your healthcare provider first, and be sure to keep the lines of communication open between yourself, your acupuncturist, and your doctor.

With the three of you working together, it's very possible that receiving acupuncture for Pelvic Inflammatory Disease will prove to be a successful way to combat symptoms and underlying issues of the disease.