Word: acupuncturists
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...Humble Acupuncturist...
...Bernhard's first experience with acupuncture dates back a year. Visiting Singapore, he suffered a recurrence of the severe pain in his back, left shoulder and arm that dates from a 1937 auto accident. Bernhard was treated by Yong Keng-ngoh, a Chinese acupuncturist, and immediately felt better. Two months ago, again afflicted, Bernhard wrote to the Singapore doctor and was referred to Yong's son, Dr. Yong Chai-siow, of London's Harley Street. The younger Yong diagnosed the problem as constipation, not the accident's legacy. Yong worked his needles for two days, after...
...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...