Importance of Choosing Comfortable Footwear for Your Feet

In order to make sure your new footwear is an adequate size for your feet, make sure you choose your new footwear at the end of the day.  This is because your feet are achy, tired and most swollen at the end of the day.  Make sure that you are able to fit at least one index finger behind the heel to ensure that the footwear is not overly tight.  Last but not least, make sure that you can wiggle your toes within the new footwear to ensure that there is sufficient room at the front of the shoe.

Introduction to Acupuncture and Moxibustion

Acupuncture and moxibustion treatments aim at activating circulation of the body’s “qi” thereby restoring normal function of the organs and tissues.  By treating acupoints, disease and disorders including heart disease, asthma or gastritis may be treated.

The acupuncture effect can be classified into three main categories:  analgesic, regulatory, and immunological.  Research has shown that “acupuncture anesthesia” is achievable via many mechanisms, from raising the pain threshold, to blocking the conductivity of pain fibres in peripheral nerves, to inhibiting pain sensitive cells of the midbrain.

In the next upcoming entry of this column, we will discuss the other two main effects of acupuncture on the body: regulatory and immunological.