Sleeping aids are among the most common medications a person can find, ostensibly because of the sheer number of people who can’t get to sleep. However, these new medications are starting to show side effects that people are not willing to deal with, such as drowsiness at inopportune times. These effects, along with the newfound interest in herbal and natural cures for modern ills, has prompted people to seek out alternative ways to fix their sleeping problems. Herbal remedies are more typical, but acupuncture has sometimes been used as one of those alternative sleeping aids people go crazy about.
Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese art that has been used to serve as treatment for everything, from the common cold to stomach aches. This method is based on the Chinese principle of chi and meridians. Chi is the force of life, a sort of energy that flows in and through all living things, comparable to the concept of the Force, from the Star Wars films. In certain areas of the body are meridians, which serve as focal points for a person’s chi. According to acupuncture practitioners, tapping into or altering these meridians can help improve or block the flow of chi,...