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T.D. Does Amazon sell it....who does? It's new to me and I'm game to try just about everything on my knee.
It's really quite inexpensive, if you can wait for it. I order it off of Ebay, takes anywhere from 1 month to 5 wks. to arrive. But at anywhere between 2 and 3 bucks ea. 1 oz. tube, I can afford to order enough to hold me over until next shipment arrives. Oh, and it has a wonderful scent
Just search for: yiganerjing in their search engine Jamin
The needles are nothing. It's not like getting a shot right into a muscle--that hurts!
You barely feel anything in acupuncture and you are lying down and comfortable. They usually put some music on and you just lie there and relax. So many people use it for so many things that I think it should be covered under health insurance. But the practitioner does make a difference. Find someone who is really good and really knows what they are doing. I've had useless results from a few of them, but amazing results from others. I think maybe the difference is that the great ones were trained in China. The herbs--usually better results when they gave me a bag full of twigs and leaves that I had to boil, lol, than when they gave me a bottle of something.
But there have been a few instances where a bottle of something really did the trick. Their herbs seem to to cure a virus too.
It's really quite inexpensive, if you can wait for it. I order it off of Ebay, takes anywhere from 1 month to 5 wks. to arrive. But at anywhere between 2 and 3 bucks ea. 1 oz. tube, I can afford to order enough to hold me over until next shipment arrives. Oh, and it has a wonderful scent
Just search for: yiganerjing in their search engine Jamin
My daughter and her kids try everything and they've used cupping with good results.
It does help, but I was surprised how much it hurts. When she twisted those cups around, ouch. Glad your daughter and her kids are getting good results.
If you dont want to try acupuncture, you can buy cups online too I think. The syringe suction ones or just the plain ones where you flame the cup - heating the air inside, creating the suction when you place it on the body.
The needles are nothing. It's not like getting a shot right into a muscle--that hurts!
You barely feel anything in acupuncture and you are lying down and comfortable. They usually put some music on and you just lie there and relax. So many people use it for so many things that I think it should be covered under health insurance. But the practitioner does make a difference. Find someone who is really good and really knows what they are doing. I've had useless results from a few of them, but amazing results from others. I think maybe the difference is that the great ones were trained in China. The herbs--usually better results when they gave me a bag full of twigs and leaves that I had to boil, lol, than when they gave me a bottle of something.
But there have been a few instances where a bottle of something really did the trick. Their herbs seem to to cure a virus too.
I agree - the needles don’t hurt going in. But when they give the needles a little twist... it’s quite an odd sensation, I find. But you feel quite relaxed during the session, and afterwards.
Those bags of herbs you boil up... I was never fussy on those. It looked like something from my rabbits’ hutch, when I had them! I prefer the tinctures or the capsules.
Hey LittleDolphin - glad you are supportive of Chinese medicine. Try pangolin scales - a great traditional Chinese medicine. Of course it doesn't do anything except placebo effect and the pangolins are on the verge of being extinct because being hunted for the "medicine" but you know.
Other animals hunted to death for Chinese medicine include tigers, rhinos, jaguars and well you get the message. I mean if its a powerful animal then eating a medicine from it will make you powerful right? Makes sense. Like eating deer penis - yes that is a thing in TCM - for fertility. Because eating a penis makes you fertile right? Makes sense. About as much as many alternative medicines at least. Killing slowly-reproducing manta rays to use their gill plates and use them as medicine - what a HOOT.
Excuse me while I go throw up in disgust.
Of course, you don't have to kill the animal. Chinese traditional medicine also includes bile tapped from bears gall bladders while they are kept alive in agony.
Yes thank God for Chinese traditional medicines. Which actually, after 2,000 years have never resulted in a population with a low incidence of disease or a long life expectancy. But have killed a lot of endangered animals. Go ahead, give your money to the TCM practitioner.
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Hey LittleDolphin - glad you are supportive of Chinese medicine. Try pangolin scales - a great traditional Chinese medicine. Of course it doesn't do anything except placebo effect and the pangolins are on the verge of being extinct because being hunted for the "medicine" but you know.
Other animals hunted to death for Chinese medicine include tigers, rhinos, jaguars and well you get the message. I mean if its a powerful animal then eating a medicine from it will make you powerful right? Makes sense. Like eating deer penis - yes that is a thing in TCM - for fertility. Because eating a penis makes you fertile right? Makes sense. About as much as many alternative medicines at least. Killing slowly-reproducing manta rays to use their gill plates and use them as medicine - what a HOOT.
Excuse me while I go throw up in disgust.
Of course, you don't have to kill the animal. Chinese traditional medicine also includes bile tapped from bears gall bladders while they are kept alive in agony.
Yes thank God for Chinese traditional medicines. Which actually, after 2,000 years have never resulted in a population with a low incidence of disease or a long life expectancy. But have killed a lot of endangered animals. Go ahead, give your money to the TCM practitioner.
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What a thoroughly unpleasant post. What happened to the C-D sticky rule of "being civil"?
This was an attack and certainly not civil nor a discussion.
Chint, you know...what would be more constructive would be to try to influence people to look into WHY Traditional Chinese Medicine works and HOW it works. For thousands of years it has worked in China, far longer than the Western Medicine model. I agree with you about killing and torturing bears for bile etc.
However, I think TCM works based on an energy system of meridians in the body. I am reading an old Robert Becker book at the moment which suggests that very small electrical signals and polarities are the body's way of signalling when to start and stop healing and that some cells de-differentiate into cells of the correct type to rebuild diseased and broken organs.
Currently orthodox medicine does not believe in this because it is using a different and very clumsy system rather than the system the body itself uses.
I’ve used TCM herbs to treat allergies and breathing issues. I got ok results, nothing spectacular. Living in an area with bad air quality didn’t help, after moving, things were better. Anyway, she recommend acupuncture and not being brave like Jam around needles, I said no and tried cupping instead. It hurt like heck, but after that single treatment, the congestion eased a lot.
I'm much more afraid of cupping than of acupuncture! Of course, I've already had experiences with acupuncture. Cupping looks awful. Interesting that it helped though.
I have a new Doctor of Oriental Medicine, but I think I am going to stay mum for now. Tired of talking enthusiastically about things that don't pan out. I'm a little afraid this one is going push too hard to try to indoctrinate me.
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