Acupuncture Urban Legends
When I was in graduate school, there was a tragic incident of overtreatment acupuncture. A student of the NESA took a heavy course load, and therefore it was given four or five acupuncture sessions by students in a day. She left school that day and died of an embolism of acupuncture-induced. Well, actually they do not want to die … But she does go blind. In one eye. Come to think of it as I heard later that she was deaf, not blind, but she has never heard of. At least she is not restored quickly, it took about a year to come. Oh, wait … He was one month. A month without hearing the therapy of acupuncture more! It sounds incredible, but I heard this from a reliable source-sister of a friend of a cousin of one of his teachers.
Every profession has its share of urban legends, and acupuncture is no exception. As with all urban legends, even though it is usually some truth buried somewhere in the story of how the tiny piece of sand that begins at birth of the pearl. (more…)
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