Acupuncture Cures Everything.

My new favorite dogmatist of the day are the Chinese Medicine converts.

If you read an advertisement for Seven Star Acupuncture, located here in Portland, Oregon, you will discover a list of conditions that Acupuncture can magically cure…(I embellish for lack of recollection and for the pure fun of it).

1) Epilepsy

2) Parasites

3) Cancer

4) Irritable Bowel Syndrome

5) Trick knee

6) the list goes on.

These are some powerful little needles. It matters not the etiology, whether unnatural cell growth, stomach critters, or broken bones. It can all be remedied with a rebalancing of your Chi.

Lovely.

Sarcasm aside, and to be fair, I do recognize the shortcomings of Western Medicine. It is an astute observation that our treatments should be moving towards treating causes rather than symptoms and whole bodies instead of body parts.  However, it is difficult to dispute the effectiveness of certain treatments.

For example, as flawed as modern cancer medicine is, can one honestly believe that acupuncture is the anathema? This is difficult to swallow. Unless you are an ideologue. .

As much as I believe in the benefits of positive vibrations, I will probably never rely solely on Raki to combat a live virus inside of my body.

For those who have come this far and discovered no supporting evidence, just a fool’s rant, you are a keen observer.  But, such is the nature of blogs, correct?