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RE: Out Of My Body: My Acupuncture Story
Wow!!!!!! I'm Flabbergasted and speechless too. Did you ever feel the pains when the pins were inserted into your body? Is this mode of medicine used for any type of ailment? From the story line , you looked like the medicine reconfigured your brain and body system Thus causing to stop smoking and drinking , can see treatment revitalize one who has been a drug addict for a long time? ... Good to know you finished and graduated well....
Acupuncture doesn't hurt. If it does, then it's a tell-tale sign that the acupuncturist is no good. Seriously. Inserting the pins should be painless. Of course, there is a sensation felt, but it's not what one would expect from having small sharp metal pins stuck in you.
Oh, and I didn't stop smoking or drinking, well not straight away anyway. But I certainly began looking after myself a lot better. I stopped smoking altogether a couple of years later. And as fro drinking, I still enjoy a glass of wine or a beer or a Scotch every now and then, but certainly not wiping myself out like I used to.
And yes, Acupuncture can be used for anything, however a Chinese Medicine practitioner will make an assessment on the patient's pattern of disharmony, and then decide what treatment to follow that will work best. Sometimes diet and lifestyle changes are all that's needed; sometimes herbs; sometimes acupuncture. And sometimes, varying combinations of all and in different ways and in different times. There is no dogmatic approach to treatment, as its always about assessing what's best going to serve the patient in that moment. Sometimes, I would even refer off to different types of treatment altogether as I was able to assess that right now they needed that, rather than what I could do.