Chronic bronchitis is a serious health risk clinically characterised by chronic cough, sputum, wheezing and recurrent attacks. The symptoms usually worsen in damp and cold weather. The causes of chronic bronchitis are extremely complex and are mainly related to air pollution, smoking, infections, allergies and climate change, but to date many factors are still unknown. If left untreated, the disease will continue to worsen.
Symptoms
Cough
Mucus and sputum
Shortness of breath
Acupuncture has become one of the most common treatments for chronic bronchitis. Through extensive long-term follow-up, acupuncture has been found to be effective in acute attacks as well as in the chronic phase.
The NUWA team has treated 1400 patients with chronic bronchitis over the past 15 years, with an overall efficacy rate of 97%. The majority of patients were clinically cured or clinically controlled. Most patients showed improvement in clinical symptoms.
Experimental studies have shown that acupuncture, ear acupuncture, cupping and stimulation of acupuncture points can promote repair of tracheal damage caused by chronic bronchitis and reduce pathological damage to epithelial cells. Acupuncture can improve the phagocytosis of macrophages and the conversion rate of lymphocytes, increase the proportion of gamma globulin in blood and cortisol in plasma, decrease the number of eosinophils in blood, improve the cellular and humoral immune functions of the body, and strengthen the patient's immune system.
In addition, patients are found to have a mild circulatory disorder, which can be alleviated by acupuncture treatment. Acupuncture makes great use of these effects to prevent and treat chronic bronchitis.
The benefits of acupuncture treatment are mainly to significantly relieve patients' symptoms, to significantly improve the quality of life and to prolong the interval between acute attacks.