re: Study Finds Acupuncture Secrets

KSVaughan2 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:50:39 GMT

The reason to go to a practitioner for acupuncture, or that matter EFT, chiropractic, naturopathy, osteopathy or any medical treatment is because we have blind spots when it comes to treating ourselves. I am a trained herbalist of 20 years professional standing, certified by the exacting American Herbalists Guild, but when I get sick I find that all my formulation goes out the window and I start grabbing herbs. My colleagues and I work up formulas for each other simply because someone else always does a better job.

I do not find that EFT is more effective than acupuncture. Acupuncture has 5000 years of classical analysis, where doctors with obsessive record keeping discussed and dissected the works of those who came before. There is no single mechanism by which it works: cell signalling, electricity, proticity (the movement of hydronium protons), gate theory, trigger points, meridian flow (and meridians are fluid filled spaces over muscle bellies and along bones so you don't see them with a drained cadaver in med school.) I am trained in EFT, but find the deep classical treatments used with a modern understanding of disease to be a more effective treatment. See further discussion at www.acupuncturebrooklyn.com