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Judy.  Electrifried's avatar

This is a beautiful article. I almost missed it.

Dr. Jordan's combining of Acupuncture, Reiki, and Doula support sounds very heavenly to me!

I suspect most people haven't experienced acupuncture and don't understand the concepts. I was fortunate to take classes on acupuncture at my university. I know how to use needles, but don't. I use acupressure all the time. It works very well for many things including pain. There are acupressure devices you can buy for as little as $20 that stimulate acupuncture points. There are many simplified books that illustrate some basic acupuncture points.

I had several remarkable acupuncturists. One kept my dad alive when my dad was very sick. Two others probably saved me when I was very ill. An experienced acupuncturist can tell more from "reading your pulse" than all the expensive tests conventional doctors run. Conventional medical tests are not finding what needs to be found, and they focus on wrong things.

I bristle when traditional, old, effective healing methods are referred to as "alternative." What does alternative mean? ... Alter Native. These are not alternative. They are thousands of years old. Acupuncture is so old, they don't know how old it is. Conventional "medicine" is about two hundred years old. It alters the native. It is unnatural. It works against nature.

I read years ago that if you fix the energy field, everything fixes itself (pretty much).

Acupuncture, Reiki, Ayurvedic, Light and Sound healing work with nature, and they restore balance and energy systems to their more correct states. I believe these modalities will be used more and more in the future.

Hopefully, mainstream (Cartel) "medicine" will go by the wayside the same as bloodletting has.

I have a question for Dr. Jordan: Can acupuncture "fix" electromagnetic sensitivity? It seems that it should.

Dr. Jordan Etters Boyd's avatar

Very beautifully put Judy! Acupuncture works well at helping bring balance back to the body. There could be some energetic blockages or deficiencies causing EM sensitivity. It isn’t the only thing that can “fix” it but regulating the energetic body and helping it stay integrated the physical body is what acupuncture and TCM is good at. Once those imbalances are identified we can use Chinese herbal formulas to support what the acupuncture is doing. Grounding on the earth with bare feet or hugging/touching a tree is another fantastic way to reduce EM sensitivity.

David Rinker's avatar

Historically disease has been thought to have spiritual causes, requiring a spiritual solution. Hence traditional indigenous healers have been individuals with the esoteric skills to pierce the veil between the physical and spirit worlds, and divine diagnosis and cure. These have been the priests, priestesses, shamans, medicine men and women, called various names in various cultures. Modern Western science-based medicine posits that disease has strictly physical causes, and can therefore be diagnosed by strictly physical means i.e., x-rays, blood tests etc. Also that a cure can be effected by strictly physical means I. E., drugs and surgery. The doctrine of Chi composed of the opposites yin-yang finds its roots in Taoism, the native religion of China. The concept of an omnipresent, androgynous, impersonal force that lies behind everything, and is the ultimate reality, is found worldwide. Various names include the Tao, Dao, or Chi, symbolized by the Dragon, ubiquitous in China. In India it is called Brahman, Kundalini-Serpent energy. In Japan it is called Qi. In Tibetan medicine it is divided into three NYESPAS. The Polynesians call it MANA. All traditional healing philosophys are rooted in the religion of the culture. Western science-based medicine is an anomaly in this regard.

Dr. Jordan Etters Boyd's avatar

Western medicine is medicine without spirit. It’s just a machine programmed to provide “standard of care” services for everyone.