Acupuncture and colds. Acupuncture can treat the lungs for symptoms of the common cold or flu, and it can be used to sweat out a virus. It treats acute conditions like colds and flu. There are certain points...
It treats acute conditions like colds and flu. There are certain points used that treat the lungs. Obviously when you have a cold or flu, sniffling, sneezing, and coughing is going on. We treat the lungs to help get that stuff out of there and get your lungs healthy.
There are points that are used in combination with the lungs that can actually make you sweat. I have used those to get a person to sweat because of a virus that invades through the skin, lungs, or nose. If you are sweating, it will definitely help you get better. Whether you should sweat it out or not depends on what kind of cold you have and what is going on with your body. If the person is very fatigued or older, sweating it out may not be a good idea. An average healthy person who catches a cold but isn't devastated by it, should maybe even go to the gym to sweat it out. Acupuncture can make you sweat it out without going to the gym.
