This article is CRITICAL
For all the arguments about the efficacy of acupuncture and chinese medicine this is what it comes down to. This is written by a Trauma Surgeon in regards to Haiti and utilizing acupuncture points to diminish the pain of all the victims undergoing amputations and surgeries from being crushed from the earthquake. Because there is no help, no medicine, no tools available in those critical first days and now 9 days later. People are getting surgery with no pain meds and rusty hack saws as if it were the 1850’s…beyond imagination and deplorable, but REAL!
I think to myself here I am in comfortable MN at a moderately busy acupuncture clinic, (read…under-utilized) as something so simple as ear point acupressure can have the potential for enormous relief!!!
