Referring to the article 'Pinning down acupuncture: It's a placebo' (ST, 12 Feb), i was shocked to discover that 'acupuncture is astrological in origin but also the astrology is based on a model of the universe which has the earth at its centre.' Does any of you knew about this??
And the article also mentioned that a study on chronic low back back pain was done and the results showed that real acupuncture treatments were no more effective that sham acupuncture treatments. There was nevertheless evidence that both real acupucture and sham acupuncture were more effective than no treatment and that acupuncture can be a useful supplement to other forms of conventional therapy for low back pain. In other words, it means : Please use acupuncture as a placebo on your patients, just don't let them know it is a placebo.
And the astrology part..it said that the 12 main acupuncture meridians and the 12 main body segments correspond to the 12 Houses of the Chinese zodiac..it went on to talk about the 'qi' flowing in the body..a bit too confusing for me to understand, and too lengthy to type everything out..
Of cos, now i'm left wondering..did my acupuncture do me any good at all? Or is that why my shoulder's still not fully ok yet?!
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