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Posted: 1/12/2005 9:26:06 PM EDT
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No ooga-booga about it. Worked wonders for my wife's shoulder injury and she's a a devout apathist like me.
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Posted: 1/12/2005 9:35:42 PM EDT
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One western theory of how acupuncture works is that it trigger endorphin responses. Unless you think neurochemistry is witchcraft, you should be fine. It can be a fine, non-drug means to get symptom relief for a number of different conditions. I hear it even works on Christians!
Of course, if you ever had to STUDY neurocheomistry, you'd be convinced of the existence of Satan sometime around about your first test.  |
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Posted: 1/12/2005 9:39:43 PM EDT
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It does work, except most of us would be more likely to pop a pill. I had it done on my lower back a few years ago. It was kind of cool, relaxing. It made me feel better.
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Posted: 1/12/2005 9:41:45 PM EDT
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Umm arent needles sort of painful?
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Posted: 1/12/2005 9:48:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/12/2005 9:59:17 PM EDT
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I saw a film of them doing abdominal surgery on a patient in china - instead of local or general anesthetic, they used needles. The patient was conversing with a nurse while they were poking around in her intestines. Its real. I do not understand it, though.
The West developed a model or paradigm for how the body works, which has been very successful. It originally viewed the body as a machine, with the advent of the industrial aged. On the other side of the world, the east developed an entirely different model, based upon energy flow, called "chi", which is also successful. To discount the east's approach to medicine because it doesn't fit our model requires ignoring many recorded demonstrations of the eastern model's effectiveness in application. |
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Posted: 1/12/2005 10:01:14 PM EDT
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He puts his hands in the air like he just don't care. |
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Posted: 1/12/2005 10:06:26 PM EDT
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nope, my wife had chronic migraines. She had some accupunture done and no more migraines. Accupuncture or mind over matter? who cares it's gone |
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Posted: 1/12/2005 10:16:51 PM EDT
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It works, I have not heard a bad thing yet about it, and it does not hurt unless you are the biggest sissy ever.
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Posted: 1/12/2005 10:27:23 PM EDT
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Frankly, I'd rather just flood my bloodstream with chemicals to solve the problem. Much easier.
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Posted: 1/12/2005 11:03:02 PM EDT
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isnt it based on pressure points on the body?
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Posted: 1/12/2005 11:38:51 PM EDT
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I wouldn't......them chemicals can really fark you up, depending on what they're trying to fix. If accupuncture could cure asthma......SIGN ME UP! |
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Posted: 1/12/2005 11:49:01 PM EDT
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Accupunsture works!
But there are two style. Chinease and Japanease. CHinease works on the nervous system for pain and often uses many, many needles. Japanease focus right on the area that is causing the pain and works on the muscle system. It is the Japanease meathod that I have had a TON of success with. Keep in mind that accupunture is a true art and the effectiveness of it is directlt related to the talent of the accupunturist. The guy that I go to is 100% japanease and knows his stuff! He even takes lifestock as trade! Which I find funny as hell in this day and age. SGtar15 |
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Posted: 1/13/2005 9:30:42 AM EDT
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Bingo. Also known as "orthodox eunuchism" - couldn't give a fuck if I wanted to. 
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Posted: 1/13/2005 9:51:51 AM EDT
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Its hocus pocus. Its all in the mind.
skepdic.com/acupunc.html Sure it works for some, but then again so does hypnotism. It does not cure a damn thing, it may relieve temprory pain but its all in the head. |
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Posted: 1/13/2005 10:04:37 AM EDT
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Beg to differ, though I'm reeeeeeal hesitant to post this. Here goes-- I have a best friend who is a licensed acupunturist. He has all but abandoned the needles in favor of a small device which stimulates the same points with a non-painful, barely-felt electrical stimulation. (As an aside, he stuck a needle in me once too and I literally did not feel it.) Now, here's the weird part--I began shooting at an NRA-sanctioned "Junior Rifle Program" at age 12 (currently age 45). This was done in an indoor basement range--and as it was in the Dark Ages, no hearing protection was required--suggested and recommended, not required. (  ) I didn't wear them, as it affected my cheek weld. BIG mistake--for many years my hearing was at the bottom of the "normal range." "HUH?" was my favorite expression. Now, we all know nerve damage is permanent, irreversible and not treatable. Well, my friend has spent two years doing acupuncture on my ears and it has actually improved my hearing to a rather drastic degree--20 dB in one ear and 30 dB in the other. I was tested at the beginning, at a "Miracle Ear" hearing aid clinic ("Sorry, we can't help you, but you might want to come back in a year and be retested."), and then again after 1.5 years--same machine, same technician, etc. My hearing improved drastically. Now, this would cost a fortune, as he's treating me in his office three times a week, but at no charge, as he's a best buddy and views this as "experimental." The results are noticeable to me and others who have known me for years. Being a HUGE skeptic of such things, I am simply amazed--but cannot deny the obvious results. If this was told to me rather than living it, there is NO WAY I would believe it.
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Posted: 1/13/2005 10:13:14 AM EDT
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That's true for all treatments, western medicine included. There is nothing that works 100% of the time. Many estimate that the placebo effect is responsible for about 30% of the improvement or other benefit seen in almost every new medical treatment. In other words, a third of people get better even when they receive no actual treatment at all. Explain that. |
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Posted: 1/13/2005 10:19:38 AM EDT
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Hell even my cats get acupuncture. I shit you not. You should see how quickly it works on the them.
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Posted: 1/13/2005 10:32:19 AM EDT
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I at one time worked for a company that distributes a large portion of the acupuncture supplies in the USA. I believe that acucpuncture works, but the profession itself is full of loonies. It pays to go to a reputable practitioner, and many MD's are now getting trained.
The so called "meridians" that the traditional acupuncture practitioners put needles into correspond to the nerves of the Central Nervous System. Some Western medicine adherents believe acupunture works by stimulating the autonomic nervous system. Beware the "flower child" acupunturists. They are a dime a dozen. Semper Fi |
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