Uso de la acupuntura como terapia alternativa para el asma en adultos

Abstract

Repeated herbal needling of the acupuncture point has been used to relieve recurrence of allergic asthma in China for hundreds of years and is still practiced today. Manifesting that allergic asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that involves the imbalance of helper cells in the peripheral blood. Therefore, we will identify the importance of the use of acupuncture in asthma, justifying this technique with the benefits appreciated and the safety of the therapy; that is to say, by relieving symptoms, reducing side effects and without hesitation by maintaining the emotional and physical well-being of the patient, thus substantially improving their quality of life. In the first instance, it was observed that the use of acupuncture as a treatment for asthma is still in previous investigations, for which reason the existing data to date are important to assess whether its therapy is important for future investigations. In conclusion, with the verification of the points of the acupuncture points for the application of the technique, it was reflected that the most used are Feishu (Bl13), Dazhui (GV14) and Fengmen (BL12), alone or in combination, emphasizing that the latter has a greater prediction for asthma therapy to be more effective. Since such points regulate the Qi of the lung, for which its characteristic functions will be regulated, being effective for the treatment of asthma