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Posted Today 5:40 PM (GMT 0)
Hi All!!
I am really, really hoping others who use these forms of healing will add lots of info as well!!! Please?? (Picture on of the little dudes down on his knees & begging!!)
First of all, I am in no way endorsing or referring any Doctor, or Therapist or even any treatment.. This is what has worked for me. I do not receive any type of compensation from these sites in any way, shape or form. I hope that is a good enough disclaimer!!!

I thought the title for this post was most likely pretty accurate for a lot of people. It was for me! I had traveled & seen soooo many docs, that one day I just decided, "Why not??? I've tried everything else!!!", and made my very first ever appt. with an Acupuncture/TMC

(Traditional Chinese Medicine) doc. Now I'm hooked!! I am now being treated for all of my ails by an Acu Doc who is a Master Herbologist in Western, Traditional Chinese & Modern Chinese Medicine - and my health is improving!!!

So, to start I would like to just list a few sites that I would recommend for looking around on to get an understanding of Acupuncture (which is top of the line for pain reduction) and Traditional & Modern Chinese Medicine. Understand though that there is no reference to Lyme disease in the Chinese literature and there may be none for some time, as most of China's forests have been eliminated. Although, they do have treatments for another spirochetal infection - leptospirosis.

This first site I like the best for learning about acupuncture in a more general approach;

www.acufinder.com/


This site has a good explanation of acupuncture & Tradtional Chinese Medicine
nccam.nih.gov/health/whatiscam/chinesemed.htm

More reading material;
http://www.acupuncture.com/[url]


Hopefully there will be some that are interested in discussing/looking into these types of "alternative" treatments - I'm really looking forward to any discussions!
Posted 12/3/2010 1:35 AM (GMT 0)
yay! i'm studying Chinese medicine at massage school right now because massage therapists often have to work with acupuncturists, so we need to know basics. I've learned a few dozen acu-points and the basics of diagnosis and pathology. It is such a different way of looking at illness and how the body functions that at first it seems like a bunch of made up stories and arbitrary details. But putting it all together and seeing illness from this new perspective gives you a lot of control over your own treatment and things you can do in your daily life that you would never expect would make a difference.

I use acu-points and do acupressure on myself every week (when needed) for pain, ringing in my ears, digestion, boosting immunity, etc. There is seriously a point for everything! Even anti-aging! Some of my favorite points are for depression/mania and also sedation (knocks me right out in 3 minutes flat!). When I can afford it, I see an acupuncturist too, because they are the professionals. Chinese medicine has helped me look at my strengths and weaknesses and build a diet and an environment around principles that have seriously improved my quality of life more than anything else I have tried. For me, it has also helped me make sense of dozens of health problems and even things in my life that no western doctor would admit makes any difference to my treatment or illness, nor could they tell me what it was, or what was causing it.

If you are looking for books, two of the "best" books often recommended by the TCM doctors/community (i have absolutely no connections with these books and authors, or even the Traditional Chinese Medicine community) are:


Between Heaven and Earth by Harriet Beinfield, L.Ac. and Efrem Korngold, L.Ac, O.M.D

The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted. K. Kaptchuck, O.M.D.


Many health professionals in the United States and in China are looking at developing a health system that incorporates both "western" medicine and TCM because they are extremely complementary and are very good at compensating for each other's weaknesses. I personally think its a fascinating field of study.
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