“I’ve been suffering from headaches for 20 years…,” “I’ve had a painful neck for 10 years…,” “Edema has bothered me for about 15 years or so….” These days, not a few patients visit our clinic with these complaints that have bothered them for quite some years.

These people have consulted medical doctors at various hospitals, and have had plenty of medicines prescribed, attempting very hard to overcome the problems they face. All of these people come to us after being told by their doctors that they would have to “live with the disorders for the rest of their lives.”

The fact that this kind of patients keep coming to acupuncture clinics such as ours seems to predict further expansion of the popularity of acupuncture treatments in the future, signifying the limitations of the Western medical treatment based on vivisectional research.

In Oriental medicine, on the other hand, while different schools employ different systems of treatment and seem to lack the uniformity seen in Western medicine, our biological existence is regarded as a holistic entity, which binds the mind and the body as an inseparable whole. Our patients are generally asked to answer some questions that are customarily asked by psychosomatic professionals. This is especially so in our Hokushin-kai system. In Western medical treatment, as I understand it, many medical professionals realize the existence of this body/mind relationship, which is targeted by scientific researches and studies, too.

Any sort of symptom that cannot be controlled by ptotracted treatment mentioned at the beginning of this writing is obviously caused by the dysfunctioning relations between the mind and the body. The effective harmony between the two is brought about by acupuncture, “The Messenger of Harmonies.”