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Distal Needling

The field of TCM is truly an Art as opposed to simply being a collection of scientific principles. What do I mean by this? I mentioned in my last blog how treating ailments is not centered around simply treating the affected area. This point is most clearly seen when dealing with pain cases. Now there are TCM practitioners that still do local needling, needling right at the source of pain. The ones who are trained adequately do get positive results.

 

However, the majority of TCM practitioners are using more elastic methods to treat. One such method that I have had the most success in treating is what I term distal needling. This is simply needling away from the source of the injury. The Leg Shaoyang Meridian is often used to identify and treat lateral knee or leg pain. There are still some TCM practitioners that needle directly on this channel to treat the lateral knee pain.

 

I have found that I have been more successful in treating pain by distal needling in which I use the “paired” channels of the one affected to treat. For instance, I often needle the Arm Shaoyin Meridian to treat disorders of the Leg Shaoyang Meridian. The Arm Shaoyin is a paired channel. You may have already guessed that this channel is in a completely different region of the body than the affected Meridian, the Leg Shaoyang channel.

 

In fact, I needle the points on the Arm Shaoyin channel that are located on the wrist or upper arm/elbow area to treat the left lateral knee pain. How does this work? For now, it is enough for you to appreciate that the ancient healers in China, thousands of years ago, established this. Again, they understood the body as an integrated unit that functions as a whole. Therefore, they looked at the body in terms of Meridians running through it that were integrated with others

The effects of the COVID virus is being felt in the healthcare community, in a big way. I’m sure that this is not a revelation to most of you. However, I’m also confident that most of you are not appreciating just how the manner in treating patients is being affected.

 

As I have explained before, what makes TCM so unique is the natural manner that a practitioner uses to both diagnose and treat. What I mean by natural is how TCM practitioner uses his own senses, such as touch and feel, as instruments to treat a patient. With the advent of policies such as wearing masks/face shields or the need now to perform temperature checks on every patient has definitely altered the pristine nature of the treatment. Yes, I am speaking from personal experience of my current treatment of patients.

 

However, as with any factor that causes such a change to society, there are avenues by which members of society can help to curb the intensity of these effects. Most of you appreciate that COVID is a virus and thus there are symptoms that are associated with it, as with any other virus like the flu. The Western medical community naturally looks to treat such a virus, like COVID, by finding artificial means.

 

What do I mean by artificial means? If you are keeping up with the Western medical establishment’s response, you should be realizing that they feel that a vaccine is the surest way to combat the virus. They push this vaccine without listing the ingredients in the vaccine and publishing any trials that this vaccine is going through. However, what is most pertinent to this blog is their lack of acknowledging the natural means that are effective in treating, at the very least, the symptoms of the virus.

 

In the next blog, I will address how certain TCM protocols are very effective in treating COVID symptoms…

 
 
 

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