My teacher of acupuncture was The Richard Tan says that one of his lectures to more important things to do in respect of our patients is to educate them to work longer or to a real path to recovery.

In fact, the patient always asks regardless of his illness, "but doctor how often must I come?" And we acupuncturists who lack the experience of forty years of a tan (and especially that of its "ancestors") fall into the trap of wanting to settle now, "from 3 to 6 times for a first tangible result and from 6 to 10 times to get a significant benefit" to say we will run away.

We all want to achieve the outcome: the patient's course because it has saved time and money invested in a constructive way and making us pay for our doctors because we feel good if the patient is better off now. But like all things it takes time and this time the patient must learn to get it. Also What 's worse than a disappointed expectation, patients are all different, there is no rule, no improvement after the first few treatment after the sixth or even after the tenth.

One thing is certain: acupuncture is not harmful, and still does, of course, if done well, short, medium and long term. For chronic diseases is calculated for each year of pathology at least one month of treatment, so this is a problem for 10 years it will take at least 10 months of continuous work.

Dr Tan tells his patients that a cycle of 20 is the minimum for a result of pain or any acute illness or dysfunction, also suggests treatments very close together, at least twice a week, three if possible and only stabilized result suggests treatments up to a week to once a month maintenance.

Alerts the patient that acupuncture may work just fine but the pain tends to return, however, it is important not only to know where to put the needles but also give the proper dosage or repeat the first touch of the deterioration. In this way the result is obtained before the patient feels more confident and is happy.

Dr Tan also offers a job as well as on the physical problems present at the time, even on the constitution or the organism in a global sense both as prevention of other diseases is important as a cure for chronic diseases.

The results are brilliant, I've seen cancer patients operated on and chemiotrattati and patients with neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease have benefits such as not having to take any medication. Patients with diseases such as bronchitis or acute cystitis or vaginitis treated with acupuncture and herbal medicine, with rapid improvement of all afarmacologico.

The cost is certainly high, but the results are priceless in my opinion. It is worthwhile reason above and also find the courage to propose that acupuncture not only to patients with painful conditions, but also infectious and degenerative diseases or recurrent acute or chronic inflammatory others.

Also, the patient becomes aware of feeling better, always refers to an improved mood, improved sleep quality, improved energy at large as well as improve its specific disorders, of course.

Acupuncture works deeply and its ability to harmonize the entire body-mind structure allows not only to "remove the noise" but to cure in the true sense of the word.

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Tags: Acupuncture , mental tools

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