Paliatívna medicína a liečba bolesti 2/2009

Complementary acupuncture methods in treatment of pain

The Mankind treats illnesses since their existence. In passage of time people were comming across methods, that werw calming down some problems or were able tu hurry up healing of a body. Some of the methods died ont, many of them survived and are used till today. Their task is to establish new balance of inner environment by non-violent and ecologic way which is acceptable for a living organism.

Keywords: acupuncture, acupressure, moxibustion, cupping therapy, magnetotherapy.