Anyone try acupuncture?

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by Bob

Wait, the air-cupping thing is real? I thought that was something made up by Penn & Teller ...

Aircupping:

In “air” cupping, instead of using a flame to heat the cup, the cup is applied to the skin, and a suction pump is attached to the rounded end of the jar. The pump is then used to create the vacuum.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Migraine headache. One solid rear back and boot to the sack and that headache is gone as is your consciousness and probably your high school memories.

I can be there by 6:00. However, I appear to be lacking the pertinent dangly bits so if you could just apply the boot to the back of my head and render me unconcious, that helps too. Fee?

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Minnie

I can be there by 6:00. However, I appear to be lacking the pertinent dangly bits so if you could just apply the boot to the back of my head and render me unconcious, that helps too. Fee?

2 for 1 deal, first boots for free.

Second one is basically whatever is in your wallet/purse

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

2 for 1 deal, first boots for free.

Second one is basically whatever is in your wallet/purse

Library card and $1.75 in change it is, then. Sweet deal.

[keratosis]

Helped me while I was contemplating suicide waiting for a rootcannal. Absess tooth sucks.

[troutman]

Acupuncture is dead


http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/05/acup...b_source=pubv1

I would like to think so. Maybe if we say it enough, it will come true.

David Colquhoun writes in Acupuncture is a theatrical placebo: the end of a myth:

Anesthesia & Analgesia is the official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society. In 2012 its editor, Steven Shafer, proposed a head-to-head contest between those who believe that acupuncture works and those who don’t. I was asked to write the latter. It has now appeared in June 2013 edition of the journal. The pro-acupuncture article written by Wang, Harris, Lin and Gan appeared in the same issue.

Acupuncture is an interesting case, because it seems to have achieved greater credibility than other forms of alternative medicine, despite its basis being just as bizarre as all the others. As a consequence, a lot more research has been done on acupuncture than on any other form of alternative medicine, and some of it has been of quite high quality. The outcome of all this research is that acupuncture has no effects that are big enough to be of noticeable benefit to patients, and it is, in all probablity, just a theatrical placebo.

After more than 3000 trials, there is no need for yet more. Acupuncture is dead.


Acupuncture is a theatrical placebo: the end of a myth

May 30th, 2013

http://www.dcscience.net/?p=6060

I was asked to write the latter. It has now appeared in June 2013 edition of the journal [download pdf].

The pro-acupuncture article written by Wang, Harris, Lin and Gan appeared in the same issue [download pdf].

[Buff]

My wife is a physiotherapist and sh does acupuncture. She doesn't follow the whole tai chi chi voodoo spirituality crap. I can't remember how exactly she explained it but there is a difference between the spiritual zen junk and the stuff she does which has something to do with the nervous system I believe.

She has done acupuncture on me many times for my many hockey related ailments and it definitely helps me out. I also have nerve damage in my feet and she has been giving me acupuntuire for that too and I find that it is slowly getting that problem to go a way.

Acupunture is not for everybody, some people just can't get past the thought of having needles put into them. Some points you can feel more than others, but most of the time you can't even feel the needles in you.

[normtwofinger]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

You know, if I jam a sharp object into your body away from your back pain, or ram a bunch of hot suction cups all over your body of course the area that was bugging you when you came in isn't going to bother you.

That's why the Captain is opening up a national wide chain of scientifically proven workbook to the groin treatment center.

Back ache, no problem one solid manipulation of the testicles using the $60.00 work book and your back won't bother you for a while.

Toothache? We can cure that too using the running stomp technique.

Migraine headache. One solid rear back and boot to the sack and that headache is gone as is your consciousness and probably your high school memories.

Constipated? Not any more friend that poop will be flying out of you with one stiff boot to the baby makers.

Lets ask this gentlemen what he thinks.

Celebrity interviewer - "excuse me sir do you still have arthritic pain in your fingers?"

Guy curled up in the corner - "Holy god he kicked me in the nuts with a construction boot?

Celebrity interviewer - "See nothing about his glaucoma"

Guy - "I think one of them exploded"


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