{"id":8,"date":"2016-10-21T05:19:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T05:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angelamentink.wordpress.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2016-10-21T05:19:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T05:19:44","slug":"about-acupuncture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"About Acupuncture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Acupuncture is a safe, effective, and relatively painless way to treat and prevent many issues that people deal with on a daily basis.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It originated over 2,000 years ago in China, and is increasingly gaining popularity in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>During a session a licensed acupuncturist uses sterile, one-time use needles to direct and rebalance the flow of Qi or energy in a patient&#8217;s body.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Theses needles resemble the width of a hair (about 20 of them can fit into a hypodermic needle which you get a shot with).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Once the needles are in place, the patient lies quietly and relaxes while the needles \u201cdo their work.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Although some people do see results after one treatment, typically a range of 4-12 treatments are needed depending on patient response and the severity of the symptoms presented.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Side effects are very rare and minimal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Acupuncture can be used to treat a very wide variety of ailments, some of which include, but are not limited to the following:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>acute &amp; chronic pain, respiratory disorders, digestive disorders &amp; discomfort, headache, toothache, women&#8217;s health issues (including fertility), neurological disorders (including neuropathy), emotional disorders (including anxiety &amp; depression), sinus issues, sleep disorders, addiction, stress relief, and many more.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It can even be used by healthy individuals to maintain a harmonious flow in the body and mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the excerpt for your very first post. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/?p=8\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelamentink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}