Article
by Marie Cargill:
ARE YOU IN PAIN? ACUPUNCTURE DOES HELP!
In January I had
five cases of face pain - all in the same day, all had discovered
the uselessness of conventional medicine in treating the
condition, all had decided to try a different route. One
of the patients - a trigeminal neuralgia case - asked me
why I didn’t write an article about pain and
acupuncture’s effects on painful conditions. Well, here
is the article.
Pain is just one
of the problems acupuncture is particularly good for. It
doesn’t matter whether its origin is orthopedic
or neurological. One of my teachers was very fond of saying
that orthopedic and neurological problems were God’s
gift to acupuncture. Over 35 years of practice in needling
hundreds of pain cases, I would agree; there is no other medicine
that can come close to what acupuncture can do.
I have successfully
treated pain; it could be sciatica, migraine, bursitis, arthritis,
neuralgias, plantar fascitis, carpal tunnel, muscle pain,
bone pain, cancer pain, gout, post-surgical pain, tendonitis,
ear pain, menstrual pain, in fact anywhere in the body. Neurological
conditions respond just as well: neuropathy, drop foot, paralysis,
Bell’s palsy vertigo, TMJ, again
so many different conditions have passed through my hands.
But this same success runs through all places where acupuncture
is performed. The process is incredibly effective.
While there are
theories and research into how medicine might work, no one
answer has emerged. Most research has been hampered by the
lack of testing mechanisms sophisticated enough to answer
why and how the insertion of a very fine needle into a specific
point does what it does. A patient often doesn’t care
about the how and why. Just pain relief is foremost in his
mind.
Anna, the patient
who prodded me about an article sought help two years ago
for facial neuralgia. With a very few acupuncture treatments,
she was pain free. When the pain reappeared this year, she
didn’t hesitate, back for more treatments.
And again in a short while, the pain was gone. She was ecstatic
and her doctor was amazed. Trigeminal neuralgia is a very difficult
problem, drugs and surgery are the conventional options. So
if some other way is able to help, why the hesitation?
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