Discussion Anyone tried accupuncture?

[Deleted member 22624]

How was it?

 

[Chupacabra 44]

I've had incredible results with many physical issues with the second of two acupuncturists that I've seen. The first one I used to see accomplished nothing beneficial.

I sent about half dozen friends to see the one who was curing many of my aliments. Everyone swore by this acupuncturist and these people sent their friends, as well.

Eastern medicine incorporates medicinal teas. Highly recommend you opt for the tea and acquire the Chinese tea pot necessary to cook the teas. The tea reeks, tastes bitter, and is akin to drinking muddy swamp water. Bottoms up.

Unfortunately, I had to move cities, but when I go back to visit, I schedule daily visits with this acupuncturist.

Ask around to find someone great. Likely not coincidentally, my acupuncturist was born, raised, and educated in China, and she practiced for twenty years in China before moving to the States. Lots was lost in translation due to the language barrier, and I can imagine if communication wasn't a huge issue how much better my treatments could have been. Regardless, worth every penny.

 

[Deleted member 22624]

Thanks for sharing that, I really appreciate the advice. I definitely wouldn't have thought a Chinese tea pot was that important. Sorry you haven't found a replacement practitioner, I hadn't considered such variability

 

[Chupacabra 44]

Also, if you decide to try it, the consensus is that it takes up to six sessions before you will know if you are responding or not. If you are not responding after six visits, then find someone else, quit treatment, or have them focus on a different aliment.

 

[Deleted member 22624]

Also, if you decide to try it, the consensus is that it takes up to six sessions before you will know if you are responding or not. If you are not responding after six visits, then find someone else, quit treatment, or have them focus on a different aliment.

6! That's a lot longer than I heard, I think I'll cry if it works though! I hope I can find someone during covid

 

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Eastern medicine incorporates medicinal teas. Highly recommend you opt for the tea and acquire the Chinese tea pot necessary to cook the teas. The tea reeks, tastes bitter, and is akin to drinking muddy swamp water. Bottoms up.

Any idea what the tea was made from?

 

[Chupacabra 44]

Thanks for sharing that, I really appreciate the advice. I definitely wouldn't have thought a Chinese tea pot was that important. Sorry you haven't found a replacement practitioner, I hadn't considered such variability

Frankly, if I had to guess I would say my progress was equally split between the tea vs the acupuncture. The teas are heavy duty based on thousands of years of Chinese medicine. You actually get a prescription, and conceptually it's like taking prescription medicine (instead of a pill full of inorganic compounds, you're drinking medicinal tea full of organic compounds). At the wrong dosages, the tea could potentially kill someone. The tea is something like 70% generic, where everyone gets the generic components, and then the balance is decided based on your health condition. You're diagnosed based on your tongue, pulse, and a basic review of your condition. The components are all naturally occurring substances - bark, stems, leaves, roots....

If you have an Asian community where you live, this might be the best starting point to find someone highly skilled. Luckily, I live in California (a big melting pot) and I had some Vitnemese employees who talked me into trying it initially. They sent me to an authentic, hole in the wall clinic. I've gotten tons more benefits from my acupuncturist than from any of my dozen western medical specialists treating me now for my various almients.

I'm actually considering moving back just for the benefit of seeing this acupuncturist, but with Covid, I'm unsure when they will reopen.

Any idea what the tea was made from?

All natural - barks, roots, leaves, berries...

It was fascinating when first exposed to Chinese medicine. I went to lunch with a buddy from work, who was born and raised in Hong Kong. After lunch, he asked me if I would mind if we walked a few blocks within Chinatown in Los Angeles to pick up his medical prescription, and I said sure. So, we walked to the pharmacy and it was baskets full of funky smelling roots, barks, leaves, etc. He handed the pharmacist his prescription, from his Chinese doctor, and they filled it from these baskets, so he could go home and cook the tea.

It took me a while to grasp that taking natural teas used for thousands of years might be better and safer than taking the toxic, inorganic crap ground up and formed into pills in western medicine.

Here is a random web site to see how it looks. The baskets contain the substances used for the teas.

Chengdu Chinese Herbal Medicine Market: Photo report | TCM China Travel

Below we present one of the most interesting places at West China for the Traditional Chinese Medicine Professionals. The Chengdu HeHuaChi Chinese Herbal Medicine Market is one of the biggest medicine herb markets of all China. It works as a major center for import-export herbal businesses of...

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[LittleJem]

I had a series of scalp acupuncture sessions for depression. I believe a course of treatment is recommended. After maybe 3 treatments, the 4th one gave me relief. My brain was working better than usual - it was really interesting, my vocabulary improved instantly (I guess I knew the words, but I don't usually use them), I felt eloquent, happy, intelligent and functional. This lasted a few days, then the depression came back for me. I stopped the course of treatments, as I was travelling a long way, it was during Covid and the cost and also the practitioner was insensitive with me and distracted on his phone, which I couldn't handle given how ill I was and am. But the day or two it helped - it was amazing.

TLDR: on the days when it helped, it was one of the best treatments I have tried.
ps the practitioner I saw is in Ilford on on the tube. He is £90 a session for Scalp Acupuncture. TJ Wang.

I am not sure how Covid-safe his clinic is, as some patients don't wear masks. He kind of puts on a mask. But I did have a little success with the treatments, I just didn't want to keep travelling during Covid.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I've done it on several occasions, usually a few on my head or back. We used to try it on my autistic sister's head but I don't think it really did anything.

 

[Chupacabra 44]

I had a series of scalp acupuncture sessions for depression. I believe a course of treatment is recommended. After maybe 3 treatments, the 4th one gave me relief. My brain was working better than usual - it was really interesting, my vocabulary improved instantly (I guess I knew the words, but I don't usually use them), I felt eloquent, happy, intelligent and functional. This lasted a few days, then the depression came back for me. I stopped the course of treatments, as I was travelling a long way, it was during Covid and the cost and also the practitioner was insensitive with me and distracted on his phone, which I couldn't handle given how ill I was and am. But the day or two it helped - it was amazing.

TLDR: on the days when it helped, it was one of the best treatments I have tried.
ps the practitioner I saw is in Ilford on on the tube. He is £90 a session for Scalp Acupuncture. TJ Wang.

I am not sure how Covid-safe his clinic is, as some patients don't wear masks. He kind of puts on a mask. But I did have a little success with the treatments, I just didn't want to keep travelling during Covid.

The benefits of acupuncture are cumulative for some almients, and my understanding is that it might take up to six sessions to see results with some conditions. The fact that you had such positive results by your fourth session seems to be indicative that if you can swing it financially that perhaps you should pick it up again once Covid subsides. Maybe, look for someone better and less expensive.

For comparison sake, my acupuncturist in San Diego is dirt cheap. She charges $60 US for the first session and $40 for subsequent visits. Each visit is an hour long. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten back to San Diego to see her for over two years, so perhaps her rates went up marginally.