After of several scientific research it has been demonstrated that acupuncture, a very old technique of oriental origin can reduce to half the severity of the asthma attacks, like the amount of drug the ill that suffer this illness need.

Doctor Kim Jobs, acupuncturist and researcher in the department of Pharmacology of Oxford University in Great Britain, made a revision over the effects of acupuncture and found that the acupuncture was effective in 62% of the patients. But he highlights that the pharmacological treatment in most of the cases had more effects than when the patients only received acupuncture.

The research proved that 91% of the 320 patients that combined this type of alternative medicine with medication could reduce the total amount of medicine that they needed to treat asthma.

And even though until the moment it is unknown how do the needles act physically in the patients with asthma, what this specialists do have clear is that they relax the patient. But for the moment the acupuncture should be combined with the consumption of medicine, but may be someday it will substitute medication.

揑t would be a suicide for the patients to stop taking medication, even it has been demonstrated that the acupuncture could be effective at the moment of reducing the severity of the asthma attacks and the amount of medication, that has many secondary effects, said Kim Jobs.

Also Jobs affirms that there is no specific method to make acupuncture, mach patient is different and has to be treated different?

　　From Qbueno.com