If Stress Is Blocking Your Chi, How About Giving Acupuncture a Try?

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April is National Minority Health Month, and through this campaign, the nation turns its attention to improving the health and well-being of minorities.

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At The Root, we salute National Minority Health Month with a three-part video series focusing on alternative health practices: acupuncture, yoga and meditation. And the videos specifically feature black practitioners.

First up: acupuncture.

Acupunctureย is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that treats patients by manipulating thin, solid needles that have been inserted intoย acupuncture pointsย in the skin. By stimulating these points, the thought is that acupuncture can correct imbalances in the flow ofย qi, or chi (pronounced chee), through channels known asย meridians.

Dumisani Kambi-Shamba is a licensed acupuncturist at the Life Rx Pain Clinic in New York City.

Felice Leรณn is multimedia editor at The Root.

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