Children-Acupuncture

On wednesdayafternoon is the Centre for Chinese Healing Arts longfeifengwu open for the treatments of children through Bernhard Nessensohn. It is of course also possible to get an appointement on another day for the treatment of children.

Through years of coworking with a pediatric doctor Bernhard has gained a lot of knowledge in children-acupuncture. He is also teaching pediatrics in Acupuncture educations in Switzerland and in the Netherlands.

Children are reacting very well on acupuncture. They dont't have all the blockades yet which makes the treatments of adults sometimes lasting a longer time. Therefore the children often need only a few treatments to feel well again.

An acupuncture session with children lasts less long than one with adults. With babies the points are only needled very shorly and the needles are removed immediately. Working with very thin needles doesn't cause pain for the children and the skin of them is still very subtle with makes them feel the needles even less.

The diagnosis in children is basically the same as with adults. There will be, if possible, a look at the tongue, a look at the facial colour, the puls will be felt and of course there is an interogation of the child and the parents about the complaints.

Children easily get sick but they also quickly recover again. It is very good to treat little children when they are sick, so the dieseases don't penetrate deeper into the system. In the first seven years of our life it is easiest to get rid of disease in our body. Acupuncture carries the big advantage that there will be no bad side-effects happening as it might sometimes occur with western medication.

Somtimes a child has some traumatic experience with needles through a lot of visits in a hospital or with a doctor and taking blood for many times. In those cases it is also possible to stimulate the acupunture-points in another way with the help of massage or of a LLLT-laser. The last one is absolutely without pain.