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Self-Help Tip #3: (Don't) Visit an Acupuncturist!?

       

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT Medical advice. Please read disclaimers.

Have you ever tried acupuncture

Well, I knew that discussing the act of sticking needles in your body(!!) warranted some extra research . . . 

    

So I spent this rainy day (aka "Hurricane Henri") indoors, reading a fascinating book called “Trick or Treatment - The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine.” 

Through in-depth research, the authors reveal that there is "no convincing evidence that real acupuncture is significantly more effective than placebo acupuncture (whereby FAKE needles are used, but don't even penetrate patients' skin) . . . 

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Therefore - “the fact that real and sham acupuncture are roughly as effective as each other, implies that real acupuncture merely exploits the placebo effect."

So the authors conclude that acupuncture “works only because the patients have faith in the treatment” (and that "the actual placebo effect for a particular patient depends entirely on the belief system and personal experiences of that individual.")

I am one of those people who had faith . . . Over the past 20+ years I've spent hundreds of dollars on MANY visits to acupuncturists (in desperate quest to cure skin conditions like acne and eczema).

Thus I was admittedly:

  • A tad disappointed by the authors' conclusions - given that I'm drawn to alternative treatments (hoping they'll provide answers that Western medicine cannot.)
  • Somewhat relieved - that I can now confidently stop seeking these treatments (until such time that "randomized placebo-controlled double-blind clinical trials" prove that acupuncture actually works!)

What about YOU? Have you tried acupuncture? Has it worked? REALLY?

     

☮️ & ❤️,

Shannon

   
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"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."

- Hippocrates of Kos

 

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