WHY ACUPUNCTURE WORKS
by Sant Kirpal Nagar, and Dr. D. Klnber
Let us look for explanations for the working of acupuncture. In
modern times we find several kinds of explanation.
1. Reflexes:
We know that our body has many nerves that send signals to the
spinal column and the brain when inervated and that move muscles
later on. From the brain nerve impulses are send via the spinal
cord to each and every part of the body. We also call this
segmental inervation. If I strike on the patellar tendon on your
knee the reflex is the moving of the lower leg if you want it or
not.
The reflex explanation of acupuncture says that if I put my needle
into some special point the nerves under the skin get signals,
signals that move up to the spinal cord in the brain and then
suppress the pain center in the brain and manage that other
signals are sent back in order to bring the body in order again so
that diseases go away.
2. Activity of hormones:
When we insert our needles in the skin of the patient we realize
that the skin around the needle becomes red especially on the
white skin of Europeans. This induced the scientists to suppose
that certain hormones are released by the needle pricking and it
was possible to find them increasing in the blood during
acupuncture. These hormones might be pain-killing, stimulating the
circulation and perhaps also working as cortisone but produced by
the human body itself.
3. Energy transfer
The classical Chinese way of explanation is that the acupuncture
points are only doors to energy channels within the body, channels
that cannot be seen with our physical eyes and are neither
identical with nerves nor blood- nor lymphatic vessels. By closing
or opening one door of the other of these channels we can bring
the energy circulation in order if it is disturbed and let the
flow of energy get harmonized. Disorder of energy brings diseases,
by order health may come again.
We can also pump energy in these holes or extract it from them. Of course our western scientists who always
want to prove everything that one knows already, looked for proofs
for the existence of these points too. French scientists injected
a radioactive fluid in the points and showed with an electronic
camera that the fluid spread exactly along these channels or
meridians which the old scriptures had postulated. Injections in
other parts of the body had this effect not at all.
Measuring the electrical skin resistance we find that all these
points have a lower resistance than the skin around. Many
acupuncturists are using this effect through electronic "point finders" to locate acupoints to the millimeter.
1966 Prof. Keller from Vienna found more blood vessels and nerves at
those points than on other parts in histological examinations.
Personal Experience
Every one of you can have your individual proof. If you touch the
places shown on the acupuncture charts with your fingertip you
mostly either find a painful reaction, some knot below your finger
or you fall with your fingertip into some hole or ditch on the
smooth skin tissue.
Sometimes patients who come to your surgery say spontaneously that
the pain is radiating from there via this part to that part of the
body and if you look upon your chart of the meridians, the
channels, you find that it is exactly this and that meridian.
The best proof I know however is the wonder that acupuncture
works. The patient, pain stricken, goes away with a happy heart especially when all other traditional and scientific treatments had failed.
Acupuncture Centre Sri Seth Prakash Charitable Hospital,
Sant Kirpal Nagar,
Sandila (Hardoi) U.P. India
German Academy for Auriculotherapy and Acupuncture,
Connollystr. 14, 8000
Mnnchen, Germany
Dr. D. Klnber, Hasenberg 24, 22929 Hamfelde, Germany
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