Word: acupuncturists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York City's Chinatown, she was not the first patient to join the queue outside the small herb shop at 11 Mott Street. Six others, one of whom had been there since 4:40 a.m., were already waiting for Dr. Huan Lam Ng, a China-trained acupuncturist. Soon 35 patients-none of them Chinese-were on line for treatment...
...experts. Some researchers have reported that variations in the skin's electrical resistance seem to follow the twelve pathways or meridians of the acupuncture charts. Others claim that the skin at acupuncture points is less dense than at other spots on the body. J.R. Worsley, a prominent English acupuncturist (but not a doctor), resorted to the ancient explanations last week when he demonstrated his art on a nearly nude young woman on WNET, New York's educational television station. He had been treating the patient, Worsley said, for digestive complaints and mental disorientation. The "cure" was accomplished...
...Humble Acupuncturist...
...mystical rationale for acupuncture is that the forces of yang and yin flow through the twelve channels and must be precisely balanced. Yang is variously translated as good, positive and "on the sunny side," while yin is bad, negative or "on the shadowy side." If a traditional acupuncturist diagnosed a patient as having too much yin somewhere, he would jab a selected point with a gold yang needle. In today's China, the newly respectable "scientific" acupuncturists rely mainly upon proletarian stainless steel. The modernists have added about 200 points to the list of accepted targets, and they sterilize...
...Veith points out that in many of the conditions for which acupuncture is recommended there is a large emotional factor. Acupuncturists may be practicing a brand of psychosomatic medicine in which the patient's self-hypnosis plays an important part. Dr. Tom Po-chin, a China-trained acupuncturist now living (but not practicing) in San Francisco, says succinctly: "There's nothing miraculous about acupuncture. It's pragmatic medicine, based on thousands of years of application." One certainty is that for many patients, acupuncture helps-somehow...