Hi Everybody,
Often people ask if Chiropractic and Acupuncture really work, then why don’t medical doctors know about them.
The simplest answer is that medics these days are taught by the AMA (American Medical Association) and the Pharmaceutical Companies. The job of the AMA, which is basically a political organization, is to protect its profession from competitors. The job of the Pharmaceutical Companies is also to get rid of its competitors so that they get the most people possible taking their products, which increases profits.
In the end, there is a time and place for everything, but just like with so many other things, when politics and money get involved, the main goal in health care ends up being something other than your health.
THE CHINESE DISCOVER CHIROPRACTIC, LONG AGO- In the old days, if you went to see a Chinese Doctor, they had many different tools at their disposal to try and keep you well, or to restore health if you had lost it. Herbs are a mainstay in Chinese Medicine, and so are exercise and diet.
In another direction, the ancient Chinese used Physical Medicine to influence the health of the body. And not just to relieve aches and pains, but also to affect the inner workings of your body, including your nervous system, organs and endocrine glands.
They found that the body was full of complex reflexes between the internal organs and other parts of the body. By stimulating those reflex areas, they found they could often restore health to the inner parts of the body. In order to affect these reflexes, they used a variety of tools – acupressure, acupuncture, guasha (a skin scraping technique), cupping (a therapy using suction cups) and also what we now call Chiropractic Adjustments. Chiropractic is officially said to have started in 1895, discovered by a Canadian who had moved to America, but it really started long before that.
MEDIC DISCOVERS CHIROPRACTIC- 1921- A medical doctor named Henry Windsor, after hearing what Chiropractors and Osteopaths of the day were claiming about misaligned vertebra reflexively causing abnormal organ function, decided to do an experiment. He dissected human and animal cadavers to see if there was a relationship between any diseased internal organs discovered on autopsy and the vertebrae associated with the nerves that went to the organs.
In a nutshell, what he found was that whenever there was a small “kink” in the spine, if it had been there long enough, there seemed to be a diseased organ attached to it by the nerve. There were other organs diseased that had nothing to do with kinks in the spine, indicating that the kinks were definitely not the only cause of illness, but whenever there was a kink, there was almost 100% of the time a diseased organ associated with it. Dr. Winsor’s results were published in the respected medical journal, The Medical Times, and can be found in any medical library.(Winsor, H., Sympathetic Segmental Disturbances- 11. The Evidence of the Association in Dissected Cadaver of Visceral Disease with Vertebral Deformities of the Same Sympathetic Segments, Medical Times, 49 1-7 Nov. 1921)
Hope this helps,
Dr Matt and Dr Robin
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