Part III: Why You Should Have A Family Acupuncture Doctor? | 【于博士文章系列】为什么要去看针灸医生（三）？

“No condition is untreatable, but only there may be undiscovered ways.”

This is a sentence from Ling Shu, the oldest book of acupuncture. There are four ways that all traditional Chinese doctors use to diagnose: observing, listening, asking, and feeling the pulse. The acupuncturists have one additional way to enhance the accuracy of diagnose and help finding out the nature of the condition: observe and checking the acupoints and related meridians.

Whenever there are any problems in your body, there will be some “tenderness acupoints” on your body. For example, if your stomach or intestine is having problems, we acupuncturists will check the acupoints on the outside of your shank which are usually painful if pressed. These points will usually be the acupoints that we pierce the needles too. If these acupoints and areas of skin are on the meridians that connect to different organs, we can usually find out which organ is having the problem---it works similar to acupressure foot massage. However we acupuncturists can tell more accurately by the meridian system.

There is an elderly Asian lady who is known by everyone in my clinic. She lives alone and she has been seeing me for many years. She often suffers from back pain, stomach pain, diarrhea, hematochezia, and even gangrene due to her weakness. She always comes to me instead of visiting a family doctor. She sees me as a general practitioner. Whenever she has diarrhea or stomach pain, either caused by pressure, diet, or living environment, I can find some tenderness acupoints (the positive reaction points) on her calf or hipbone. I treat these points with acupuncture, and it produces an instant result. Even her hematochezia problem is usually solved with one or two treatments.

Several days ago a patient who has been having neck pain and restricted neck movement came to our clinic. When checking him, I found a tenderness acupoint—Shu Gu point on the bladder meridian. Therefore I pierced one needle at the point, and asked him to move his neck. He moved, and surprisingly found that his pain has gone and he can move more immediately.

There are many other conditions such as shingles, pink eye, various headache, toothache, acute or chronic back pain, heart problems, depression, infertility, and hair loss etc., that are usually hard for family doctors to solve. However we acupuncturists can deal with them easily.

As an acupuncturist with 25 years of experience, I always gasp in admiration at the great wisdom the ancient Chinese doctors had. Acupuncture is one of the oldest medical practices, and how did they find out such a profound theory? How did they figure out piercing these points could relieve pain and heal diseases? All these seem to be a mystery. As an acupuncturist, I know that all conditions have their causes and origins which are all relate to the Meridian system-- the channels that transfer the energy and information throughout every part of the body. Just like the roads system of a city, the vehicles on the roads need to run in an organized way. If a car runs too fast, too slow, or is running in a wrong direction, accidents and disorder will happen. To solve the problem, a policeman needs to show up, cleaning up the site, and reset the traffic. We acupuncturists are like the policeman, helping the energy channel running smoothly so that your health can be restored.

My dear friend, do you have a family acupuncturist? If not, you should start looking for one today. We are sure we can be your best choice in Metro Vancouver.

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在最古老的经典著作《灵枢》中说到：“言不治者，未得其术也。”传统中医师可以用望、闻、问、切来诊断病人的疾病，但针灸医师会多用一种方法来检查病人的身体，以达到准确的诊断和对疾病性质的判断：那就是通过观察和检查经络和穴位以达到诊断目的。

当身体有不适时，在相关的部位会出现一些反应点。例如肠胃不适的时候，针灸师就会检查小腿前、外侧肌肉的压痛点，这个点往往就是主要的针灸治疗点。当然如果你有压痛点或者在其他的部位皮肤异常，那么点所在区域就是什么经络通过，从而推断出是什么脏器的病变。又如你在接受足底按摩治疗时，你的治疗师通过你的病点所告诉你身体的健康情况一样，我们针灸师通过经络可以更准确地告知。

我们诊所里的工作人员都知道，有一个亚洲老人家时常来看我，已经很多年了。由于年老体虚，独身一人，时有一些疾病发生。最常见的就是腰痛、腹痛、腹泻并有便血，甚至脱疽。每次发作时就来看我一、两次，她从来不看家庭医生，把我当成她的全科医生。由于生活环境、饮食、精神压力导致她腹泻或腹痛时，我都会在她小腿及髋骨上发现一些压痛点（阳性反应点）。每次针对这些点（一般都在穴位上）治疗，她的症状往往立竿见影，甚至便血都会在一、两次内解决。

几天前，有一位因颈痛而活动受限一周的病人来求治。在检查时我发现他的足太阳膀胱经络上的束骨穴有压痛，于是给予一针束骨穴，同时嘱咐他活动颈部，病人惊奇地发现颈部疼痛迅速消失，活动范围迅速扩大。 很多其他病变如带状疱疹、红眼病、头痛、牙痛、急慢性腰痛、心脏病、忧郁症、不孕症、脱发症等等包罗万象的问题，往往家庭医生束手无策的时候，针灸却可以大显其手。

作为一名25年经验的针灸师，我经常感叹：我们的祖先怎么会拥有这么伟大的智慧？针灸是最古老的医术之一，他们是怎么发现如此深邃的理论的呢？

所有的一切似乎是个迷，但是作为针灸医师的我有更深入的了解，明白人体所有的病理现象都有其内在的原因和根据。这个原因和根据就是人体内部起着能量和信息交流的作用、并且无处不至的经络系统。如果把经络的主干比喻为高速公路的话，车辆如果有序运行，那么一切都是顺畅的，一旦车辆运行过快或过慢，或不安方向行驶，就会引起灾难和无序，警察来了之后给予处理、清除不当行驶的汽车，那么公路就再次畅通了。而针灸医生的工作，就是起到这个警察的作用，让人体内部的这个能量通道通畅，以达到治疗疾病恢复人体健康的目的。

那么现在，你已经有一个家庭针灸师了吗？ 没有的话，那就去找一个吧。