[Peace-discuss] A different debate: Diversion.

[jencart]

Open letter to Mr Park -- and other uninitiated/unconvinced souls.....

Acupuncture reduced swelling, inflamation, and pain for my torn knee cartilage -- no surgery after all, also eliminated pain in forearm and thumb.  (And no, it's not "all in my mind" -- it didn't heal nor reduce pain of bursitis/hip.)  A friend's back was so bad he could hardly stand, walk, sit, was seeing orthodedist to schedule surgery.... His back responded so well to acupuncture that he healed completely, didn't need surgery and remains pain-free to this day.  A C-U Ob-Gyn sends patients to an acupuncturist to reposition a baby that otherwise might be born breech/have to be delivered by C section. James Reston (NYT columnist) wrote decades ago of his experience in mainland China soon after the US established relations... A team of female doctors performed an apendectomy on him while he was wide awake, using only acupuncture (as I remember) for "anesthetic."

It works! Try it, you'll like it!  (The real trick is to stop doing injurious things after acupuncture has fixed you up!.)

Jenifer C.
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A  commentary by Robert L. Park:


3. ACUPUNCTURE: YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW WHERE THE RABBIT CAME FROM
On TV's "Sex and the City" Charlotte, who was unable to conceive, turned to acupuncture.  I read that in the Wall
Street Journal, but it didn't say whether it helped.  So I
turned to the experts on the WN staff.  Charlotte, they
assured me, ended up adopting.  I'm not surprised.  Of course, even if she had become pregnant it wouldn't mean that
acupuncture helped.  You need a randomized, placebo-
controlled, double-blind study with good statistics to find out what works and what doesn't.  And double-blind is hard to do with needles.  But it wouldn't matter, I still wouldn't
believe it.  The trouble is it's silly.  Acupuncture, complete with "meridians" that connect acupuncture points, and
moxibustion
http://www.aps.org/WN/WN98/wn111398.cfm , which applies heat to the acupuncture points, predate vivisection by thousands of years.  Well by 2004 they've looked: no features of our
anatomy correspond to any of this stuff.  They discovered acupuncture before it was known that blood circulates, or that germs cause disease.  But is there anything acupuncture doesn't treat?  The Wednesday New York Times reported that "acupuncture is moving toward the mainstream."  Mainstream what?  When a stage magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat, I may not know where the rabbit came from, but I know it's not magic.  It's not science either.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.
Opinions are the author's and not necessarily shared by the University of Maryland, but they should be.

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