Subject: The Mechanism behind the Mechanism

From: [email-masked] (Romel Cordeiro)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 17:21:16 -1000

We like to bring an interesting case where we feel that there is a Mechanism
behind the Mechanism.  We have in our group an acupuncturist that
specializes in headaches.  He has been working in this field for many years
with a lot of success.  He believes that in acupuncture, there is the
energetic and the neuro pathways; where in many times there is an
interelationship between the two, and that the brain controls many of these
relationships.  He believes that energy is a subtle form of matter and
nerves are a more visible dense form of matter.  The point here; is that
thru the intelligently organized, beautifully complex function of the brain,
a special command can be given by the energectic to the neurological systems
and or vice versa.

The case is a male with complete paralysis of the lower limbs when he was in
a motocycle accident 25 years ago.  He had completely broken vertebraes
with no feeling whatsoever below the navel.  The legs were very skiny and
according to the patient, there was no feeling in both legs for more than 20
years.  The patient came in the office with a major headache complaint where
he was taking heavy dosages of motrin as much as he felt was necessary.  My
friend the acupuncturist used pressure over a particular point in this
patient's feet, and he  got results in about 15 minutes.  

He explained that there is still a certain amount of neurological function
in the legs even though it is not apparent at all.  He added that without
the normal functions of the nerves, the acupuncture point has difficulty in
processing the function information that these points  have.  Even though
the neurologic aspect of the leg was not present to a certain degree, he
managed to get the  acupressure stimulation information to the cephalic region. 
He mentioned that there are other mechanims involved in this picture
syndrome that are completely controlled by the receptor mode of the brain
and the reflex relationship between the acupuncture point and the regional
headache.
Not to mention that this acupuncture stimulation surpassed the over-drugged
condition that this patient was with Motrin for 9 days.  I thought that the
receptivity of the neurologic or energetic part of this patient was
completely drugged and no response would be possible; not even taking into
consideration the fact that this person was a paraplegic with no feeling at
all in his legs.  

Continues in the next posting.

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