Acupuncture is a safe and effective alternative treatment for infants and children. A pediatric treatment includes medical assessment, nutritional recommendations, herbal recommendations, and different varieties of treatment modalities such as acupressure, acupuncture, and shonishin. Acupressure involves a light gentle massage on specific acupuncture points on the child’s body to help treat their conditions.
Shonishin is a needless technique of Japanese acupuncture that was designed specifically for infants and children up to the age of seven. This gentle treatment involves small metal tools that tap, brush, or scratch on the child’s skin along the acupuncture channels. These treatments are beneficial for conditions such as ADHD, allergies, asthma, bedwetting, constipation, diarrhea, eczema, digestives issues, seizures, headaches, pain, lack of appetite, and ear infection.