The power of Acupuncture

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Here are some thoughts on the patient always difficult long

distance Plus I will share some of my concerns with our profession :

 

I am not having a go at you Martin please excuse me If I use your

example as a means of talking about issues that have been concerning

me for quite a few years now.

 

 

On the one hand we have a woman in her early twenties. She has What

on the surface appears to be Kidney stones and not for the 1st time,

because she has had one Kidney removed after apparent severe damage.

 

There is a proportion of acupuncturists (and I used to be one of

those) who beleive that acupuncture can do any thing. Well, in fact,

acupuncture IS the most powerful form of directly affecting the

workings of a human being. Why? amongs other things because we can

alter the hormonal functions of a body. How fast our nails grow,

skin changes, heart rate, lacrimation etc., are all regulated by

hormonal function.

 

this is a two way sword. An acupuncture point that can alter

function in one human being or (animal !) for the better will, in

another create dysfunction. Do this a few times and we have a

problem. I am dismayed when I hear from students that they have

been told that acupuncture does no harm. That if we get it wrong the

body will sort itself out and no big deal.

 

It has been a big deal to a number of patients that have been passed

on to me, after having been misdiagnosed and mistreated both by

acupunture and C Herbs.

 

 

I have seen too many acupuncturists (including myself) and lay

people, made even more dysfunctional in their health by wrong

treatments.

 

In my view, there is far too many wrong treatments. It is also my

view, that a great many acupuncturists ,whilst well meaning, are not

aware of the power at their command.

 

If my assesment is accurate. Why would this be so? I beleive the

answer lies in the fact that we are not taught to be critical of the

results of our actions. I don't mean critical as in critiziing. What

I refer to is the development of the faculty of questioning the

treatments we have done, via the input of changes in our patients,

in terms of their physical functions, emotional states and immune

response. I also am of the opinion, that we need more common sense,

by linking Western information of organ function, hormonal effects

and physical structure with CM.

 

If a person has stones in the GBladder or KID T

to think in tems of Phlegm may be useful But the person has gone too

far in their hormonal chemical imbalance. By this stage What is

required is direct intervention of which there are many forms both

western and chinese.

 

What acupuncture is capable of though, is 2 things. It can make a

person so imbalanced, that they will get stones, either, by

generating muscular contraction around the kidney or gallbladder so

that the organ becomes dysfunctional and or it can disrupt the

hormonal system in such a way that Ph balances, fluid densities are

affected etc.,.

 

The opposite is also true. For the stresses people experience in

ordinary life can also generate the dysfunctions that will lead to

stones. Acupuncture is uniquely placed to release the tension and

bring harmonies to the system once the stones have been removed.

 

I belive that there are C Herbs that can dissolve stones but I don't

practice Herbs so I am not qualified to comment.

 

We have been offered the example of a young woman with posible

Kidney stone I for one would want to know more of her history over

the past 10 yrs at least.

 

Like what sort of stresses, diet, drugs, western or eastern

intervention has occured prior to the 1st Kidney removal. ie. I

would want to know what led to the stones in the fist place.

 

I belive that as a group we lack the power of objective diagnosis. I

Beleive that amongs the Acupunctue community there is a large number

of higly skilled individuals capable of incredible diagnostic

abilities. However, the rest of us poor mortals need objective

help. This help exists and is available.

 

I share this beleifs not to put us down, but to raise the issue of

the power at our command and the importance of effective diagnosis.

 

I have debated wether to offer this for further discussion. I feel

so passionate on this subject that I will take a chance.

 

salvador

www.meridian-qi-acupuncture.com