Too Good is What"s Too Bad About Acupuncture
This is a personal experience generated opinion.
I had not tried acupuncture until 2006.
It is great and I recommend it for anyone.
I had fought with diverticulosis and diverticulitis most of my remembered life.
The spell I had that year felt like it would be the death of me.
Plus, I had a lung infection.
The lungs and the colon are connected (in Chinese medicine), much to my surprise.
I knew that conventional medicine would put tubes into me and drug me, with no diagnosis or prognosis.
I had always leaned left from a medical philosophical viewpoint.
The practitioner brought me back from the dead.
The needles do not hurt.
(Make sure your guy/gal is schooled and certified well, like any other doctor.
) I tried the needle(s) for 6 months or so.
But I had to quit.
I became addicted to the acupuncture.
Felt too good, cost too good.
My practitioner (the dealer) said, after he had me hooked, "Yeah, it sure feels good, doesn't it?" So I quit cold turkey and I feel lousy now.
But I'm saving a lot of money.
Maybe I'll try chiropractics.
I don't know, is it addictive also? I'm looking for the magic wand, I guess.
Well, my warning to you is: Acupuncture is too good.
Leave it alone.
The dealer only wants steady customers.
What seems to happen: The acupuncturist gets your body to a point at which it needs the needle to just maintain, but not improve.
You can only improve so much, finitely.
I think that acupuncture is the answer for anyone with unlimited financial resources.
It's far superior to our critical care system.
The good thing about our "American" health system is that a problem is "pinpointed".
The Eastern approach stresses maintenance and continuing exploration of pathways.
That's more efficient, but costs are ultimately infinite.
Kind of like auto maintenance.
I do not take prescription drugs.
Chinese medicine pills are great.
I own pharmaceutical stocks, but prefer my medicine companies to be in business awhile, like 5,000 years.
Chinese medicine mixes 7 to 10 specific curative agents together in one pill.
They have, in due time, discovered how each of the specifics will react with the other.
Perhaps I should prefer to take 7 to 10 pharmaceuticals, and see what happens reactively? I don't think so, Dog.
No matter what medicinal system(s) you use, remember, exercise and diet are #1.
I had not tried acupuncture until 2006.
It is great and I recommend it for anyone.
I had fought with diverticulosis and diverticulitis most of my remembered life.
The spell I had that year felt like it would be the death of me.
Plus, I had a lung infection.
The lungs and the colon are connected (in Chinese medicine), much to my surprise.
I knew that conventional medicine would put tubes into me and drug me, with no diagnosis or prognosis.
I had always leaned left from a medical philosophical viewpoint.
The practitioner brought me back from the dead.
The needles do not hurt.
(Make sure your guy/gal is schooled and certified well, like any other doctor.
) I tried the needle(s) for 6 months or so.
But I had to quit.
I became addicted to the acupuncture.
Felt too good, cost too good.
My practitioner (the dealer) said, after he had me hooked, "Yeah, it sure feels good, doesn't it?" So I quit cold turkey and I feel lousy now.
But I'm saving a lot of money.
Maybe I'll try chiropractics.
I don't know, is it addictive also? I'm looking for the magic wand, I guess.
Well, my warning to you is: Acupuncture is too good.
Leave it alone.
The dealer only wants steady customers.
What seems to happen: The acupuncturist gets your body to a point at which it needs the needle to just maintain, but not improve.
You can only improve so much, finitely.
I think that acupuncture is the answer for anyone with unlimited financial resources.
It's far superior to our critical care system.
The good thing about our "American" health system is that a problem is "pinpointed".
The Eastern approach stresses maintenance and continuing exploration of pathways.
That's more efficient, but costs are ultimately infinite.
Kind of like auto maintenance.
I do not take prescription drugs.
Chinese medicine pills are great.
I own pharmaceutical stocks, but prefer my medicine companies to be in business awhile, like 5,000 years.
Chinese medicine mixes 7 to 10 specific curative agents together in one pill.
They have, in due time, discovered how each of the specifics will react with the other.
Perhaps I should prefer to take 7 to 10 pharmaceuticals, and see what happens reactively? I don't think so, Dog.
No matter what medicinal system(s) you use, remember, exercise and diet are #1.
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