Acupuncture's "effective rate in the treatment of
chronic pain is comparable with that of morphine."
- World Health Organization, 2002 Acupuncture
Review and Analysis Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials
Acupuncture's "effective rate in the treatment of
chronic pain is comparable with that of morphine."
- World Health Organization, 2002 Acupuncture
Review and Analysis Reports on Controlled Clinical Trials
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a
disease
than what sort of a disease a patient has."
- William Osler, Canadian Physician (1849-1919)
"I think there's good scientific evidence for acupuncture
and I prescribe it."
- F. Michael Ferrante, MD, Director of the UCLA
Pain Management Center in Los Angeles
If there is pain, there is no free flow:
if there is free flow, there is no pain.
- Huang Di Nei Jing
About acupuncture:
"I can't see a better solution to long-term
chronic pain.
There is no question in my mind that acupuncture is safer than surgery
or drugs."
- Dr. Bruce Pomeranz, Neuroscientist, University of Toronto
"Human beings are bodies, minds and spirits.
Health necessarily involves
all of those components,
and any program intended to improve health must address all of them."
- Dr. Andrew Weil
Qi is matter on the verge of becoming energy,
or energy at the point of materializing.
- Ted Kaptchuck, The Web That Has No Weaver
Qi is the root of a human being.
It is the basis of all phenomena in the universe.
- Giovanni Maciocia, The Foundations of Chinese Medicine
The doctor of the future will give no medicine,
but will interest patients in the care of the human frame, in diet,
and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Thomas Edison