Alternative therapies are in vogue today because they can help alleviate the signs and symptoms of various diseases. It can also help alleviate the aftermath of some diseases and chronic pain in both humans and animals. For these reasons, acunpuncture has begun to be applied. That is why we will deepen in relation to acunpuncture for horses.
In addition, alternative therapy of acupuncture for horses is being applied in competition and sport horses. This helps reduce recovery times and improve their performance.
The application of alternative therapy such as acupuncture for animals comes from very old times, that is, for more than 2,000 years. In principle this technique was born in China, then its practice was extended to other countries in Asia such as Japan and Korea.
Later in the last decades a great interest has arisen in the West. Therefore, this discipline of Animal Acupuncture specifically in horses, dogs, cats, birds among others. It is also applied in the European continent
The alternative therapy called acupuncture is a science where the disease is treated as an imbalance in the body. Therefore, through the acupuncture for horses, the body of the animal can be harmonized.
To achieve balance, needles are implanted in specific places of the body considered acupuncture points. Likewise, these have a name and different specific functions.
When the needle insertion procedure is performed, a stimulus is created through the nervous system. In effect, this will send the appropriate information to achieve a favorable result.
Specialists in any equine discipline or horse owners should be documented on the benefits of acupuncture. Acunpuncture can serve as a relaxation therapy after each activity that the horse performs.
In 1997 there was not only a milestone but also an advance in the field of alternative therapies. The Institute for Health of the United States of America took a big step in favor of these therapies.
The institute recognized the multiple advantages of acupuncture as another technique for the medicine and procedure of clinical conditions, both in humans and animals.
Thanks to this, acunpuncture has spread. It has taken advantage of the great advantages of this ancient science in humans. Even more so because the application of acupuncture for animals was promoted, which is a novelty.
Currently, veterinary acupuncture has provided professionals who apply their techniques, a very advantageous and effective instrument to address different types of pathologies and conditions in animals such as dogs, cats, horses, birds among others.
Acupuncture for horses is applied in some clinics. However, it has the versatility that can be applied on the farm where the animal is located.
In addition, the veterinary doctor who has studied the alternative technique of acupuncture can perform it at home, so it would facilitate the logistics to the client.
The effects of alternative acupuncture therapy in horses is extremely wide among them we can mention the following:
Here are some tips and notes about the application of acunpuncture for horses:
The welfare of an animal or a human being is based on a body being kept in balance. This balance is achieved through food, sleep and breathing. To reach a diagnosis, Traditional Chinese Medicine has some theories where the method and the acupuncture points to choose will be resolved.
Acupuncture Theories
It deals with the paraphrase of natural phenomena applied to all aspects of life and traditional medicine. In this way he manages to explain the physiological, pathological, diagnostic and therapeutic processes.
This theory allows classifying all phenomena into two forces:
Wu Xing’s ideogram is the five phases of a cycle that refers to the five categories in nature. By what the elements are called and these are water, fire, wood, metal and earth.
There is a wide variety of techniques used by traditional veterinary acupuncture:
Hemoacupuncture was used to prevent and treat frequent problems in equidae of excess blood energy. This technique is used to treat problems of excess Yang, including heat stroke, laminitis, fever, keratoconjunctivitis, hives. To perform this procedure there are special needles.
In traditional pneumoacupuncture a long hollow tube is used to introduce air into a subcutaneous area. It is said to stimulate local musculature, it is used for muscular atrophies and in chronic treatments of suprascapular nerve paralysis
Fire needles are to introduce heat at selected acupuncture points to treat severe rheumatisms. Fire needles are special needles. These have a certain thickness and hardness with a handle that insulates it.
The only moxibustion technique in animals is the one that is used conventionally. Moxa (Artemis vulgaris) is used more frequently to treat large areas of the body, for example chronic problems of wind invasion or Yin / Blood deficiency condition (Xu).
As we have seen, acupuncture for animals, and especially acupuncture for horses, has many benefits. Let’s take advantage of this alternative therapy to improve the well-being of our horse. So we will give you a better life and get a better performance.
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