Well, I had my 4th Traditional Chinese Medicine appointment yesterday.
Unlike last week, my body was all gung-ho on the physical aspects of the
JMT so I got lots and lots of acupuncture. Except for the spleen meridians.
She tried to put them in twice on each side and my body just spat them
out again. Guess my spleen either felt fine or wanted to be left alone.
I got numerous weird muscle sensations from the acupuncture, and when
she took the needles out some of the spots itched like crazy. They felt
like active mosquito bites for a minute. She said all arthritis is "hot
wind" (caused by pathogens) and the itching is caused by the pathogens
coming out of the skin at the needle contact point.
There were very few Jedi Mind Tricks this week. I held the bottle of
external pernicious factor and she said I'm down to 11%. EPF is a tiny bit
of what ails you (for instance, a pathogen diluted in 100X water) and you
hold a vial of it in your hand so your body knows what you want it to kick
out. It's like homeopathy but instead of drinking it you hold it while the
TCMP talks to your body through your wrist. I didn't know she actually
kept track of how much EPF was being expelled every week, but she said
my last visit it had been down to 40%. I asked her how she measured it
and she said she just asks my body.
I have been having aches and pains in places not normal for me and I
wondered out loud if the JMT was causing me to have a herxheimer
reaction. She said it is more like when the Dutch boy takes his finger out
of the hole in the dam. The acupucture unclogs the meridians so a
backlog of toxins floods out.
Warning: this part of the post gets graphic about poo, farts, and
menstruation. I thought maybe nothing was happening with TCMP but
last week after dealing with my enteric nervous system (the nervous
system governing the small intestines and other digestive functions) I
went from about 4 poohs a day to one, and I hardly farted at all, even
when I drank sparkling water which usually makes me fart excessively!
This only lasted 4 days though. Also, this month my period is behaving
like a period should! With no spotting, and not coming twice, or coming
really slowly. So I don't know what to make of that---is it Jedi Mind
Tricks, or is it Calgon?
She asked me how much my feet hurt last week and I said not at all, but
that they feel REALLY WEIRD like the toes are too far apart of they're kind
of loose, and my fingers feel that way sometimes too. She said that's a
good thing because with RA your immunse system is attacking you and
your body is fighting back and it all gets really tense, so the "loose"
feeling is the body unclenching and coming to some kind of truce or
peace agreement (not her words).
I really like my TCMP. She told me when people come in reporting good
results from their last JMT she always reacts so positively she appears
surprised, which does NOTHING for her credibility, haha! We discussed
our mutual skeptisism about things. She said when she was learning
about TCM she always would be skeptical it could work and then
surprised when it did. That's why se got SO into it. Also, she has 3
patients with RA now so she said she's been doing a lot of studying on it,
which I like.
She treated her Mom for OA in her knees and her Mom kept scoffing and
making pokes but now the OA is almost all gone.
I felt really sore and kind of burning after this week's appointment, and I
learned a new thing: It would be better to go home and lie down after
your Jedi Mind Tricks than go to a very rambunctious Ween concert.
Ween was great, though. I spent the whole concert going
"Ow....Wow!....ow....ow.....Wow!....ow....Wow!"Very interesting this is.
Like I told that doc about AP, 'does it matter if it works by killing bugs, by immunomodulation, or because I want it to work so bad, it does, tell me, how does it matter?'
I'm all for JMT!
Pip
Well, I'm assuming it has a pretty good track record because it's covered under my extended insurance, and they don't usually cover hocus pocus.Gimpy,
I find this interesting too. I went to a Chiropractor once who tested if I needed supplements. She did this by testing my strength when she either held the pill on my forehead. People said that was hocus pocus, but how could that be when she never told me what she was testing until she was completely done! I swear it worked. There were some of them that I literally could not hold my arm up.
I'm curious though, what she do when she "asked" your body what it needed?
kweenb, she holds my wrist and asks me to breath in or out, or fire breath. Sometimes when she's telling my body something she strokes my wrist. She says she can tell by the different muscle responses. When she's checking out how much EPF I still have I have to hole the EPF vial, though.
Thanks for sharing your experience with JMT. I am always amazed how similar themes keep surfacing.
While we do not deal with these pathogens themselves, we deal with what is referred to as their energetic signatures. This is the frequency, or vibration, that is unique to that pathogen. These
energetic signatures can be imprinted into vials of water, much the same way as the voice of your favorite singer can be imprinted onto a compact disc.
What you said here about imprinting on water made me think of Mr. Emoto's work with water. His work is with how the vibrations of our thoughts can alter water. Here is a website which discusses his work.
http://www.life-enthusiast.com/twilight/research_emoto.htm
My alternative physicial therapist is also working to bring pathogens to the surface so that my immune system can deal with them. She is also working to strenghthen my immune system as well.
Thanks again for sharing your experience.
Marybeth
Marybeth -
This brings up so many points.
Ripples in a pond.
Pip
thyme2share, I read about Dr. Emoto's work with water after I saw "What