Acidity stomachic

Acidity or burning in the stomach, is an annoyance that many people suffer in general is due to how fast a life that is currently lived.

The main symptom is burning sensation in the mouth to the stomach that is moving up in often arrive at the throat.

The acid is used to produce the malfunctioning valve or sphincter that is responsible for communicating the esophagus with the stomach, the call cardia. The function it performs is to close the stomach and prevent food from returning to the esophagus during digestion.

Often this valve is weakened and treat an open space remains, one which could accommodate the esophagus food and gastric juices which should have remained in the stomach. When it succeeded, the walls of the esophagus and will ignite the heat occurs.

The reasons by which weakens the cardia may be different as abusing a highly seasoned food, like ingesting foods, pregnancy, obesity and a condition known as hiatal hernia.

The causes of the weakening of the cardia are several, from large feasts, ingestion of foods, pregnancy, obesity, until suffering a condition known as hiatal hernia.

Women and men are affected by osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a disease that affects men and women and is characterized by a descent of bone tissue, generating a deterioration of bone tissue by increasing bone fragility. The most common manifestation is a fracture and the consequences that derive from them.

It is a disease that affects more women than men, mainly to people aged over 50 years.

Two types of osteoporosis exist, the type I associated with menopause and type II age-related, affecting people aged over 70 years.

Some risk factors that predispose to suffer the disease are:

* Being a woman
* Posmenopáusica
* White, thin
* Having suffered a premature menopause
* Not having had children
* Be familiar precedents of osteoporosis
* A lifestyle
* A smoking
* Excessive consumption of alcohol
* Sub calcium intake
* A sedentary lifestyle

The clinical manifestation of this disease is fractures.

In type I: the factor that generates the development of osteoporosis in women still lack of estrogen, while men are not a significant bone loss before age 70.

In type II: the lack of vitamin D.

To diagnose the disease is conducting a study that bears the name of Densitometría dual energy X-ray or computed tomography can also be made.

To prevent it we must have an adequate intake of calcium and vitamin D, avoiding tobacco, alcohol, hormone replacement therapy in women posmenopáusicas and physical activity.

What is acupuncture?

The Traditional Chinese Medicine is a basic concept that disease is an energy imbalance of the body, which is caused by external factors such as cold, heat, moisture, bacteria, etc.., Internal factors such as operation deficient organ, alterations to an emotional level, blood deficiencies, etc.., or combination thereof may also go.

Through acupuncture can help the body to re-establish a balance by recovering energy and health.

It is a technique based on the use of needles that enter the specific points that are part of channels through which we can get to make a connection with the circulation of energy and thereby correct the vital energy (the sinking of Chi).

Each channel or meridian is related to the energy of an organ of the body and also functions as the body performs. For example meridano since that is the heart may improve blood flow throughout the body.

In traditional medicine are two major theories of China:

The theory of Yin and Yang: the Yin and Yang represent the duality that exists in all processes of life, they are opposing elements but at the same time inseparable.

- The Yin: Earth, Cold, Women, Interior.

- The Yang: A sky, Heat, Men, Outdoor.

The theory of five elements: It is that which describes the relationship existing between the macro and microcosm, the five elements are:

- The Madeira: The liver, gallbladder

- A fire, a heart, small intestine, a pericardium, a triple warming.

- The Earth: A stomach, spleen.

- He wets: A kidney and bladder

Corresponds to each element a particular organ, viscera, emotion, expression, secretion, meaning a body tissue, color and taste.

Finally, two basic laws of government processes. The first is called creation and basic nutrition, the second law is that of control and reflect the internal processes, ensuring balance and avoiding the domination of one element to another.