Alternative Medicine– Adding Another Tool to Your Toolbox

September 27, 2009 | Posted by author

Having been formally trained in Oriental Medicine, I often get the opportunity to assist friends and family with issues that come up regarding their health and well being.  No longer do I practice acupuncture professionally, but instead I have it in my self reliance toolbox, ever ready to use for the good of family members and friends in need.  I don’t always have total recall when readying myself for an acupuncture session, but I have my “acupuncture bible” to reference over 500 plus points on the body, each with a separate function in regulating the body’s natural ability to keep itself in balance.

Some of the things that I have been fortunate in assisting family members with are the following:

• I helped my much younger sister a few years back cease wetting the bed completely with a few short sessions.

• I assisted in greatly reducing my wife’s seasonal allergies.

• I was able to alleviate my brother’s migraine headaches to a great extent.

• When my father who has diabetes was getting up 5+ times a night to use the restroom, I treated him until gradually he would only make a single visit to the restroom at night, and sometimes none at all.

• In a single treatment session, I helped my niece, after she had badly broken her arm, to have full range of motion and avoid months of physical therapy.

• When my wife was pregnant and in labor with our first child, and frustrated with the progression of her labor, I treated her causing an expediting of the process by making the contractions more frequent in proximity to each other and much harder.  She was grateful to have the process helped along.

There are a number of other pain-related conditions with family members and friends that I have been able to remedy with the help of acupuncture.  It isn’t uncommon for a family member or friend to ask, “Hey, so can acupuncture help with _________ (fill in the blank)?”  I give a carefully thought out answer, knowing that neither acupuncture nor anything else for that matter is a cure-all.  Developing your talents by learning skills to serve other people is great for self esteem, and a wonderful addition to your self reliance toolbox.

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Pat Gunther of Emergency Food Storage Pros is a guest poster here at the Self Reliance Exchange, and he believes it is important to spread goodwill by doing for others what they can’t do for themselves.  He is a fan of the old, tried, tested, and proven remedies passed down through centuries of use.

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