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Currently in China the main use of acupuncture is as an anesthetic in surgery. It is also used to treat some heart conditions, ulcers, asthma, hypertension and appendicitis.

Some Western doctors have observed surgeries made based anesthesia and have confirmed that acupuncture works in some cases but not in the majority. One advantage of acupuncture, as Chinese surgeons who practice it, is that it interferes with the normal physiology of the human body and therefore the patient is less vulnerable to a shock.

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* Grasses:

The grasses (Poaceae or Gramineae) are the leading cause of allergy in our country and distributed by the central and northern Spain. Although it includes several thousand species, is the Pooideae subfamily that contains the most important genera that produce hay (Phleum, Dactylis, Lolium, Trisetum, etc.). They are weeds growing in roadsides, fields or open fields. Atmospheric concentrations of grasses vary from year to year. In Castilla León, Castilla La Mancha, Extremadura and the interior of Levante and Andalusia, the concentration that occurs from April to July is related to rainfall preseasonal, ie that recorded between October and March. Its pollination period is very large since the flowering of each of its species occur in a given time. Although the so-called Green Spain (Galician and Cantabrian mountain) is a high concentration of grass pollination is moderate and it rains a lot in the months of flowering.

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