A recent acupuncture tutorial on Bell’s palsy offers a useful case study in how traditional medical metaphors can slide into pseudo-explanations. The speaker begins reasonably enough. Bell’s palsy is described as a paralysis of the seventh cranial nerve, the facial nerve. He correctly notes the importance of early steroid treatment and the need to distinguish … Continue reading Deconstructing Acupuncture Metaphors: Bell’s Palsy, Wind, and the Problem of Symbolic Medicine
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Why Acupuncturist need to renew themselves and not tell the old old stories
Acupuncture Beyond Metaphor: The Body Does Not Need a Story to Be Real it needs Body Phenomenology based on the Meditative Mind For more than two thousand years, acupuncture has been wrapped in symbols, metaphors, and cosmological allegories. Qi flowing like rivers, meridians mapped like sacred cartography, wind-damp invading the channels: all poetic, all beautiful, … Continue reading Why Acupuncturist need to renew themselves and not tell the old old stories
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