Perhaps you feel lethargic and unmotivated. Or you may be the opposite - perpetually anxious, stressed and on-the-go. Researchers of acupuncture and Chinese medicine would simply shake their heads and offer you a spot in an acupuncture clinic, where the practice of using needles to stimulate certain acupuncture points is used to provide relief for all sorts of ailments from headaches to alcoholism. For years, psychologists have scratched their heads about mind over matter, but the proof is in the final results: it works.

Over time, we naturally lose some of our “Jing” (or genetics/youthful vigor) from things like excess sexual precariousness, alcoholism, working too hard or emotional drainage. By undergoing Chinese acupuncture, it is believed that the acupuncture points allow entry into energy channels, bolstering the immune system, improving circulation and regulating hormones. It’s widely believed that acupuncture and Chinese medicine enables one to live a longer, healthier life with greater happiness and balance.

Another Chinese theory is called the “Electrical” theory, which says that the body is always discharging slight magnetic energy and that Chinese acupuncture actually works by manipulating the body’s electromagnetic fields, altering chemical neurotransmitters in the process. In 1999, British doctors found that collagen was a good conductor of electricity — and Dr. Mae Won Ho concluded that “the kind of conducting water channels that more or less follow the collagen fibres may correspond to the so-called meridians of the acupuncture channels. So when you put a needle in you are giving a local electrical stimulation which then enables this positive electricity to be conducted to some distant sites.”

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