Acupuncture

Acupuncture

Duties and Responsibilities:

        Acupuncture is one of the oldest healing practices in the world. In the US practitioners incorporate healing traditions from China, Japan, Korea, and other places. Acupuncture is considered part of complementary and alternative medicine. An acupuncturist is a health practitioner who takes holistic approach to maintenance of health and the management of disease also focusing on a person’s wellbeing. They make diagnosis and make a treatment plan, take pulse examinations and tounge to aid diagnosis, and they insert fine needles into the patient’s skin at certain places to stimulate the energy flow along meridians.

Average Salary: $45,000

Educational Requirements:

        This area is open to all graduates although a degree or HND in life/medical science may increase your chances. A degree is not necessarily a compulsory requirement for entry to training and many students who do acupuncture have no academic qualifications. Also knowledge of biological science is helpful but the attitude and personal qualities are important.

Reflection:

         I would like to become this. My dad had to take this type of therapy all the time. He had messed up his hand so I would love to do what they did to my dad to other people as a way of giving thanks because that helped him a lot.