(This is an article I’ve been submitting around the web. Every acupuncturist and Oriental medicine practitioner should be familiar with just how serious this is.)

Every single incident of healing is actually the body naturally healing itself. In most cases this happens without any kind of treatment — you don’t need to go to a doctor for every headache, burn or injury. But in some cases, the body must be assisted to a point where it can naturally heal itself.

Can a surgeon actually heal the even the smallest incision they make? Obviously not. The skin heals itself – the surgeon merely provides stitches which assist in healing. Is setting a broken bone healing it? It isn’t – the bone must mend itself over a course of weeks.

That’s right… No healer can truly cure ANY condition! It just doesn’t work that way, because true healing is done by the body itself. All they can do is put things into balance so the body is able to use its own self-healing mechanisms. Think about it…

The irony is that all too often, traditional Western doctors and medicine forget that only the body can heal itself. They give you drugs that hide any difficulty, while not allowing any real healing. Drugs themselves usually just cause another imbalance that hides the original symptoms. This imbalance just causes more illness and more side effects. In some cases, the cure will even hurt you!

A comprehensive 1998 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association said that, deaths due to legal drugs in hospitals were the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. There were 106,000 deaths from legal drugs alone. This is almost 3,000 people per day. The figures from this study show that:

Legal Drugs Kill 12 times More People Than Illegal Drugs!

Recent changes in the way drugs are marketed and approved mean that the problem is even worse than 1998. Here are some recent drug scandals:

• Ritalin is used to treat ADD/ADHD, when often the condition is merely due to improper nutrition.
• Viagra can permanently damage or even destroy the “equipment”! (Search for Viagra and priapism)
• Many arthritis medicines actually speed up the the crippling arthritis degeneration, even though they can help with the pain.
• Vioxx, is a strong painkiller, but also made people prone to heart attacks. Many died and, many more will die from delayed effects, even though the drugs are now off the market.

And realize this: these are only the side effects that have already been discovered. There are many, many more examples like this. Studies have shown that 51% of drugs are found to have serious side effects after being put on the market. When a drug is new, doctors and the FDA will be discovering side effects for years!

If you’re taking a drug, know that every single drug has side effects. Eli Lilly, the founder of Eli Lilly and Co, a $58 billion pharmaceuticals corporation said:

“A drug without side effects is no drug at all.”

The shame of it is, for every drug, there is often a matching natural form, usually herbal. The natural form is almost always less destructive and more safe in the long term. Most importantly, natural formulas normally help the body heal so you’re not stuck taking them.

Most doctors have little clue about natural healing. Medical doctors do not attend classes or seminars learning about cures they don’t provide. Your doctor can’t tell you about this. And “natural” healing will almost never show up in the Physician’s Desk Reference.

Please understand…

Amazing things can happen in Western medicine.

Western Medicine is outstanding for many things. Most emergency healthcare. But “modern” health care tries to be all things to all people. Often the underlying illness is made tolerable, or hidden. This means that in many cases it fails, even when they “think” they’ve succeeded.

Chinese medicine works by bringing the underlying cause into balance so the body can heal itself. Solving the imbalance and allowing natural healing is all that’s needed to cure many conditions. Remember, the body must heal itself.

Are you satisfied with your health?

Probably not. You’re probably reading this because of some health difficulty. And chances are very, very good that an acupuncturist can assist you with this difficulty when all else fails!

Some of the illnesses treated (there are many more):

• Post-Partum Depression (or simply recovering from childbirth)
• Bedwetting / Incontinence
• Anorexia
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Chronic Aches and Pains
• Edema
• Allergies
• Migraines
• Asthma
• Sinus Problems
• ADHD/ADD
• Parkinson’s disease
• Other Skin Conditions
• Precancerous results from a PAP Smear
• Psoriasis
• Arthritis
• Vision Problems - Back Problems

This list is only a small part of what is treatable. If your difficulty is persistent or chronic, it is likely due to some kind of imbalance. Acupuncture and Oriental medicine practitioners work to correct these imbalances on a basis. Bottom line, chances are…

Your acupuncturist probably has an effective therapy available for you. Contact them today.