Brendan Kelly was kind enough
to discuss acupuncture in with me, and what he had to say was not at all what I
had expected. I was unaware of that acupuncture mainly consisted of diagnostics
and aiding the yin, “represents the cold, slow or passive principle of life;
while the yang represents the hot, excited, active one.” (Mayo Clinic Book of Alternative Medicine pg. 146) Kelly focused a
lot towards the ways in which climate effects the yin and the yang.
Acupuncture, as I know understand, comes in to play in Chinese Medicine when
the yin and yang are out of balance and the blood’s pathways must be
“unblocked”.
Kelly mentioned that many people come to see him or other
Chinese Medicine professionals mainly to prevent illness. If everything stays
in balance then there is a much lower risk of becoming ill.
“Three
Jiaos or Three Burners. This is an organ system not recognized by Western
philosophy…The relative health of this organ system is detected especially via
pule diagnosis”
-Educational
Opportunities in Integrative Medicine (pg. 31)
This part of the text shows
that the climate is very in tune with anything occurring with us. We correspond
to the Earth and must acclimate ourselves to the environment to keep the yin
and yang in balance. Chinese Medicine is all about the ways in which everything
within the body is connected; mind, body, and soul. As Kelly had stated, “Law of
Cure: one must let illness out, or it will only come back, there must be a
release of things in the body.” I agree very much with his statement, one must
let the bad out to feel truly good again; otherwise the illness or “cause” will
only continue to reoccur within the body (this is why allopathic medicine has
many people addicted to pain killers and other unnatural medicine to treat
symptoms). Overall I thought this topic
was very interesting and I learned a lot about acupuncture that had never even
crossed my mind.
Brendan Kelly had brought up the mind-body connection and
its importance. I think that the mind and body are two very separate things in
today’s allopathic medicine world when they should be looked at as one thing.
The mind and body have, in my opinion, the strongest relationship in the human
body on this Earth. If we do not believe we are going to heal, how can we? The
mind is such a powerful thing and it is necessary in the healing process, and a
positive mindset is much more stronger than a negative outlook. All you must do
is believe you can heal in order to begin the healing process. By integrating
the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the human body we can
connect the mind and body.
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