14th January 2003
Ok, well both acupuncture and homeopathy can both be very effective in the treatment of asthma.
I developed an allergy based asthma in my 20's and was given first an Intal inhaler and then a Ventolin inhaler by my doc. Intal is a dry powder inhaler that made me cough so much, I could not take it. Although it is primarily for kids, he gave it to me as a preventer as it was meant to be good for allergic asthma. I then switched to Ventolin, which worked very well and then following a severe bout of bronchitis one winter, I ended up on a steroid inhaler too, to help clear it. I carried on like this, as I didn't know any different and would get bronchitis, would need more antibiotics and then more steroids and it carried on like this in a vicious circle. However, a friend at the time had started doing an acupuncture course and persuaded me to go along just for one treatment to see if I liked it. Her college was doing a promotion to try and get people to go to the student clinic for reduced prices. I went along and was totally amazed. After only one treatment and with the use of various points, my breathing became a lot better, so I went back and after 3 treatments I had ditched my steroid inhaler completely and by the end of the full course, I was not using my Ventolin at all. It was great and somehow taught me how to breathe very deeply from my belly rather than my chest and this has really helped ever since.
I actually discovered in the end that were also a lot of emotional components to my problems and just happened to pick up a book one day about homeopathy. By this time, I was so into the acupuncture that I had gone to study it myself in college and I was in the college library where I saw this book on homeopathy. As I was doing acupuncture, I was quite receptive so I sat down and started reading it. It was the book by Bill Gray MD, the Yale trained doc turned homeopath. Anyway, it was so easy to read that I found it fascinating. After reading it, I went and had some treatment myself and was amazed at the results. Suddenly, years of emotional suppression started to unravel themselves and I felt better both physically and mentally than I had done in years.
I completed my acupuncture training and went and set-up in practice and although my practice was great and thriving, I felt that something was missing, so went and trained in homeopathy too. I now integrate both acupuncture and homeopathy in my practice for the benefit of my patients, as I feel that there are some things that acupuncture will work better for and vice versa. Sometimes acupuncture is better for more physical problems, whereas homeopathy will go to a much deeper level and although good for physical ailments, is very good for mental and emotional problems too. I now still have a thriving practice, but feel that I found this missing link and am much more relaxed and seem to find more satisfaction in helping my patients.
Sorry this is so long winded, but I hope that it helps some of you and that you can derive some benefit from reading it?
Take care
I developed an allergy based asthma in my 20's and was given first an Intal inhaler and then a Ventolin inhaler by my doc. Intal is a dry powder inhaler that made me cough so much, I could not take it. Although it is primarily for kids, he gave it to me as a preventer as it was meant to be good for allergic asthma. I then switched to Ventolin, which worked very well and then following a severe bout of bronchitis one winter, I ended up on a steroid inhaler too, to help clear it. I carried on like this, as I didn't know any different and would get bronchitis, would need more antibiotics and then more steroids and it carried on like this in a vicious circle. However, a friend at the time had started doing an acupuncture course and persuaded me to go along just for one treatment to see if I liked it. Her college was doing a promotion to try and get people to go to the student clinic for reduced prices. I went along and was totally amazed. After only one treatment and with the use of various points, my breathing became a lot better, so I went back and after 3 treatments I had ditched my steroid inhaler completely and by the end of the full course, I was not using my Ventolin at all. It was great and somehow taught me how to breathe very deeply from my belly rather than my chest and this has really helped ever since.
I actually discovered in the end that were also a lot of emotional components to my problems and just happened to pick up a book one day about homeopathy. By this time, I was so into the acupuncture that I had gone to study it myself in college and I was in the college library where I saw this book on homeopathy. As I was doing acupuncture, I was quite receptive so I sat down and started reading it. It was the book by Bill Gray MD, the Yale trained doc turned homeopath. Anyway, it was so easy to read that I found it fascinating. After reading it, I went and had some treatment myself and was amazed at the results. Suddenly, years of emotional suppression started to unravel themselves and I felt better both physically and mentally than I had done in years.
I completed my acupuncture training and went and set-up in practice and although my practice was great and thriving, I felt that something was missing, so went and trained in homeopathy too. I now integrate both acupuncture and homeopathy in my practice for the benefit of my patients, as I feel that there are some things that acupuncture will work better for and vice versa. Sometimes acupuncture is better for more physical problems, whereas homeopathy will go to a much deeper level and although good for physical ailments, is very good for mental and emotional problems too. I now still have a thriving practice, but feel that I found this missing link and am much more relaxed and seem to find more satisfaction in helping my patients.
Sorry this is so long winded, but I hope that it helps some of you and that you can derive some benefit from reading it?
Take care