aphorisms prompted by reading about miracle cures
Courtesy of this month’s Journal of Chinese Medicine
‘There exist no miraculous methods in the world, only plain ones, and the perfection of the plain is miraculous’ (Fei Bo Xiong)
‘We are what we repeatedly do’ (Aristotle)
‘Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always’ (Chinese proverb)
‘One thousand days to learn, ten thousand days to refine’ (Japanese proverb)
and just for good measure………
‘Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them………well, I have others’ (Groucho Marx)
skin conditions & acupuncture
THIS ARTICLE SHOULD BE READ IN LIGHT OF THE INFO IN MY RECENT POST RE CONDITIONS I”M NOT ALLOWED TO CLAIM THAT I CAN TREAT. SO PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT I CANNOT CLAIM TO TREAT ECZEMA !!!!!
I saw someone recently with dermatitis/e****a covering the whole body. ‘We always do this with herbs’ I confidently said. Then got stymied; for various reasons they couldn’t take herbs so reluctantly I used acupuncture. First session no change, second session I did serious rethink re strategy and … fantastic result with redness and severe itching dramatically reduced. My apologies to my fellow acupuncturists for doubting the efficacy of acupuncture for skin…it’s just if you’re a herbalist you’ll usually go there first. Progress has continued by the way with third session seeing us nearly there. Just seen Nicky’s comment in the ‘acupuncture’ section on her itching skin condition so looks like flavour of the month !