Does Acupuncture Work?

Your arguement is both ignorant and insulting

My husband is a Certified Classical Five-Element Acupuncturist, Martin Murphy, C.A., L.Ac. Dipl. OM. He uses absolutely no electrical stimulation during acupuncture.

He has treated patients who have been referred to him by Chiropractors, regular MD's, oncologists, psychologists, physical therapists, & cardiologists. All of his patients have documented verifiable results, confirmed by observation and/or tested by standard radiology and blood work showing the improvements that were achieved in very hard cases only AFTER receiving acupuncuture. Our most moving case, being a patient with metastisized cancer whose belly was so swollen he looked 9 months pregnant and had been told by his specialists that the best they could do was to slow down the progress, if that. He began acupuncture to treat the pain, discomfort, and exhaustion caused by chemo and radiation. My husband was more determined to heal him then that and would not settle for mere pain relief. After six months of care, not only has did his stomach flatten, and his health and vitality return so that you wouldn't even know he was sick, but his MRI's showed consistently that his cancer was shrinking and his blood work steadily improved. Then he moved out of state, and stopped coming in for acupuncture for two months. He was still receiving all the same Western care, the only change was missing the acupuncture. He deteriorated quickly, and his stomach swelled back up again, and had several gallons of fluid drained out three times over those two months, until finally is desperation he chose to fly here to see my husband again. With acupuncture he has again improved, is no longer swelling or needing to be drained, and his vitality is returning again.

Our most profound case to me, is that of a 4 yr old girl who had been taken to every specialist imaginable for profound and severe allergies to almost everything, that resulted in a very limited diet, extreme care necessary in her daily life and environment to protect from allergens. She was brought in due to extraordinarily terrible eczema all over her body, that none of the Western specialists had been able to help at all through any of the means they tried. This resulted in an inablility for both the child and the mother to sleep, the child was miserable, lethargic, with no energy or desire to even play. She was too young to even understand what was being done during her treatment, must less "believe in her mind" that it would help her, when none of the other numerous things others had done had helped her at all. After 3 treatments she was sleeping through the night and the eczema rash was healing and disappearing. After 5 treatments there were only a few small patches on her hands and lower legs, and she was running around our office and chattering. After 7 treatments she was completely healed, and her grandparents didn't recognize her as the same child and her parents were proudly reporting that her school teachers were noticing extraordinary improvement.

You can't "bait & switch" an unknowing severely miserable 4 year old. And you can't fool an MRI, or ignore the difference between a belly swelling with gallons of fluid, or not swelling.

This is just two of many at our Center.