Search articles from thousands of Examiners
Write for us
National Health Seattle Chinese Medicine Examiner
Seattle Chinese Medicine Examiner

Ten Things You Did Not Know About Acupuncture

June 16, 4:50 PMSeattle Chinese Medicine ExaminerMichael Max
Comment Print Email RSS Subscribe

Subscribe


Get alerts when there is a new article from the Seattle Chinese Medicine Examiner. Read Examiner.com's terms of use.
Email Address


  Include other special offers from Examiner.com
Terms of Use


1- Acupuncture is not just for treating pain.

2- You don’t have to “believe” in it for it to work.
Heck, the practitioner does not even need to believe in it for it to work.

3- Anxiety or depression are not simply psychological problems.

4- There are no magic cures. But, sometimes it feels that way.

5- Yes, it is common to feel profoundly relaxed after an acupuncture treatment.

6- Yes, those herbs do taste as bad as you have heard they do.

7- You don’t have to be Chinese to practice Chinese medicine.

8- No, you don’t have to know how to read or speak Chinese to practice acupuncture. But, it does help.

9- It is excellent for treating chronic conditions, but also good at preventing them in the first place.
So, get right into your acupuncturist after that car accident!

10- It makes you look ten years younger, raises your IQ, immunizes you against parking tickets, and makes you more attractive to the opposite sex.

Add a Comment

Name:


Comments:
characters left

NOTE: Do Not Alter These Fields:

Recent Articles

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
In the last post I suggested that you can DIY certain acupuncture points and treat yourself. Today let's talk about the Five Tigers and how to use …
Thursday, August 7, 2008
I’m not suggesting you pull out the sewing kit and start randomly sticking needles in yourself. After all, as one of my teachers liked to say …

Things to see and do

Operation Holiday 2009
02 Dec 2009 -
Bergen County Community Action Partnership
More special event »