As an acupuncture virgin and complete needlephobe and always somewhat skeptical about mystical forms of medicine she was worried that it might hurt her arm in a way rendering her unable to cook for imminent guests...so I went easy and just did a local treatment with two needles on her opposite unaffected arm...but she was still quite sensitive-expected when that IS the pathology...
However, earlier I had told her to rub some anaesthetising and nourishing herbal liniment in as she was too busy to be needled then, so we couldn't be sure whether her resulting pain alleviation could be attributed in any part to acupuncture at all!
In any case since reading an AMAAAAAZING and INSPIRING BOOK called "Spontaneous Healing" by a Harvard Medical School M.D that discusses the complementary medicine worldview in detail in particular how the body knows how to heal itself and thus many given up for dead or declared incurable by the western medical system defied their "sentences" and got WELL, my mum was inspired to get past her fear of needles and allowed me to do a proper holistic multiple needle point prescription...actually I didn't even take pulse or check tongue cos well...I know her so well I didn't need to- so it was almost like a complete diagnosis and prescriptive treatment by social criteria: character and current circumstances and mindset alone!
She immediately reported feeling incredibly hot all over her body..."That's the sensation of QI"!!! I told her excitedly!
Wow, I think my mum (formerly massive skeptic and massively biased to the western system as far superior) was SO IMPRESSED and between my many stories and her own personal experience of proper acupuncture, I think she is now a ! True Complementary Therapies CONVERT!!YaaaaY!!!! Why so happy? Well cos it means of course that:
I still haven't lost my "Knack"! ^^
which having not been in the game for soooooo long could easily have been the case!
Apart from that success seems inevitable in that the place where I may be residing...soooo easy for me to ply my trade, random people so interested and encouraging...and not only that even in my current locale, random people I get chatting to often ask "do you have a practice?"(as they want to come for treatment...)
Unfortunately I always have to say " No sorry, I'm on the bench for now" :P
But HMMMmmm...maybe I should still hand out business cards to these people cos hopefully I'll be off the bench and practising real soon! :D
22:50 january 7 2011
