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Does acupuncture have
another name?
Yes. In fact the word
acupuncture is incorrect
because it implies
needles only. The proper wording is "Meridian Therapy”, or Ching
Lo Chi Liao in Chinese.
It was named ‘acupuncture’
in the 16th
century by Portuguese sailors who knew no better.
The wrong name stuck in America, what kind of doctor should one go for this
type of health care?
Any doctor (chiropractor, medical or osteopath) who has had the
proper
training.
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A conversation with Dr. Snow....
Question:
What
is acupuncture?
Answer:.
Acupuncture is a 5,000 year old Chinese system of natural healing
(No drugs….
No surgery), which is concerned
with restoring proper energy flow
to the various
organs, glands and tissues of the body on the premise that most diseases
are the result
of malfunction due to disrupted energies.
Explanation:
The Chinese definition of Health is “All
parts of the body functioning
normally,”
all 400 trillion parts. If there is an interruption in the transmission
of
energy flow or life force (called ch’I in Chinese), then organ
malfunction, disease, pain
and suffering are inevitable.
Question:
Where
does the interruption of energy flow occur?
Answer:
In
either or both locations: (1) In the channels of energy flow, which are
located
throughout the body, just beneath the skin surface; (2) In the spinal
column where
vertebrae may become misaligned, thereby compressing vital nerve trunks.
Question:
Are there other causes of disease besides those associated with the
interference
of the
transmission of energy flow?
Answer:
Yes, of course. Psychosomatic states,
hereditary factors, poisons, adverse environ-
mental conditions, injury, germs, malnutrition, etc…., all are disease
producing.
Question:
How
do you detect the disturbance in energy flow within a patient?
Answer: By
many methods, including certain signs, symptoms, pain spots, organ
reflex points
and by pulse or instrumental findings.
Question:
Assuming
I’m going to take acupuncture treatments, how are they
performed?
Answer:
First, the related skin points are determined. Then they are
appropriately treated by
one of
over thirty methods of stimulation some of which are:
1) Long needle insertion (especially done in acupuncture anesthesia for
surgery)
2) Short needle penetration 3) Non-piercing needles
4) Finger tip pressure (called shishin or “finger needles”)
5) Metallic balls taped to the points
6) Electrical stimulation 7) Moxabustion (the burning of herbs over
the points).
Note:
The non-piercing needle (teishin) is very popular because the technique
is
practically painless, there is no blood, no danger of infection and
results are equal to, if not better than other techniques.
Question:
What are
some of the conditions commonly treated by acupuncture?
Answer: Text book listed
conditions run into the hundreds. Typical ailments usually
responding to acupuncture health care includes: neuralgias, headaches,
trigeminal neuralgia, tics, spasms, muscular rheumatism, neuralgia of
the shoulder
and arm, tennis elbow, osteoarthritis, rheumatism, ulcers, stomach
problems, diarrhea,
hepatitis, asthma, bronchitis, shortness of breath, coughs, certain
types of heart trouble,
abnormal blood pressure, hemorrhoids, lumbago, bladder irritation, bed
wetting, certain
kidney problems, female disorders, impotence, glaucoma (sometimes) weak
eyesight,
hay
fever, loss of smell, tonsillitis, loss of hearing, skin conditions and
even nervous or
psychiatric factors based on the fact that often mental problems arise
from physical
disorders.
The above list may seem long as though acupuncture were a Panacea. The
truth
is that
most textbooks list over two hundred diseases. Please be mindful; of the
act
acupuncture is not like one drug used for one condition, but on the
contrary, it is
a
complete healing art within itself,
concerned with
the systems of the body
such as nervous, circulatory, digestive, respiratory, eliminatory,
reproductive, hormonal,
musculoskeletal, etc., and seeks to correct health problems within those
systems.
Question:
Out
of, say 10 patients accepted for acupuncture health care, how many
usually respond favorably?
Answer:
On the
average, 8. Two out of ten fail to respond favorably for a variety of
reasons. Advanced
age, severity of the condition, irreversible tissue damage,
etc., are deterrents
to recovery.
Question:
Are spinal
adjusting treatments necessary with acupuncture?
Answer: Absolutely. Spinal adjusting is part of the acupuncture health care.
World authorities,
including Feliz
Mann, M.D. of England; Paul Nogier, M.D. of France; and Kunzo
Nagayama, M.D.
of Japan are very emphatic on this aspect of “getting
well”.
Dr.
Mann states that
many internal diseases are cured by the spinal adjustment alone.
Leaving the
adjustment (chiropractic) out of the treatment plan invites failure.
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