i've had some great results with acupuncture - previous to coming down with m.e. i had it for tennis elbow and it went immediately...i decide to have a course of six treatments just to bring me up to scratch as it were. i had had chronic asthma for 8 years and was on high strength inhaler 3-4 times a day...i changed my diet (less dairy), started nose breathing and used my inhaler as little as possible, tho that was not easy...at my next acupuncture appointment i told the lady what i was doing and she did what she felt would support my lungs the most. strangely it was two days following that treatment before i realised i hadn't touched my inhaler...i can't tell you how happy i was, free of the reliance at last...post m.e.
i still found acupuncture helpful but less so and it didn't las as long but was nice at the time...the acupucturist said i had "damp" which in english was a yeast infection/weakened spleen etc and that this made the chi sticky and so treatments weren't as powerful. anyway i ran out of money and didn't have acupuncture for a few years until one day i happened, by chance, on an electro-acupuncture machine being sold at a car boot (like a yard sale i think
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) for 2. i'd had a stitch in my liver, at the back for about 3 years
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i got home and did a treatment with it...and to my absolute joy and surprise it removed the stitch instantly...ohhh i can't possibly get across the physical, emotional and even mental relief this brought.
over a month i removed lots of retention toxicity in my abdomen...the model i used was the original electro-acupuncture device designed in the 70's by dr. julian jessel kenyon. he runs a natural health clinic in the uk that also treats m.e./cfs amongst other conditions. it is used in nhs hospitals up and down the country with great success. i used it on my mother when she dislocated her knee and it was the first pain free recovery she'd had from doing that (about the fifth time). also used it on my son with excellent results. i'll put a link to it, i hope that's ok, i certainly don't work for them lol! but should i recover i most definitely would sell it. it comes with a large treatment manual and locates the points using electrical resistance and a bleeper tone/light, the currenyt used is tiny, about 1000th that of a tens machine...so easy to use my 8 year old son could do it on his own.
i personally found it better than a needle treatment and obviously much cheaper. but i'm not saying it would be better than needle for everyone, just a possible alternative...2 for life it's cost me...i have seen them go on ebay for between 30 - 60. there are others like the acupen that i tried but found it to be pointless. the
healthpoint electro-acupuncture device... i'm not touting this site as personally i'd buy a cheaper second hand model of ebay, but it gives some explanation about it...
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