In this article, I discussed a few real-life examples of medical treatments based on acupressure and Qigong. Their results are difficult to understand from a traditional western medical point of view, and could often be dismissed as myth, and not reality.
About 16 years ago I injured my left little finger while I was playing goalie in a soccer game. When I dove to block a shot at goal, I landed on that finger in an awkward way and damaged its tendons and ligaments. That finger was swollen right away and I felt a lot of pain. I left the game and went home. Since the finger did not improve after a night’s rest, the next day I went to see my orthopedic surgeon, who after examination referred me to see a specialist orthopedic surgeon who specializes in treating hand injuries. So I immediately made an appointment and went to see that hand specialist orthopedic surgeon who put a splint on my finger and treated me with physical therapy on a weekly basis for six months.
At the end of six months, he told me that he was finished treating me, even though when I closed my left hand, my little finger could not close completely and left a gap of about one-third of an inch from touching my palm. Another six months passed, or a year after the injury, a friend mentioned to me about a Chinese woman doctor, Dr. Su, in the East Brunswick area. Having nothing to lose, I went to see her. While in China, Dr. Su was trained both in western medicine and in Chinese medicine, which included acupuncture treatment and acupressure treatment, and had worked in China as both a western doctor and a Chinese doctor. Since immigrated to the U.S., she only practiced Chinese medicine, and in particular, at that time only acupressure and herbal medicine.
Nanking Massacre: Reporting an Eyewitness Account
One of the most terrifying atrocities in human history occurred in Nanking over a six-week period beginning on 12/13/1937, when the Japanese troops entered and controlled Nanking, the then capitol of the Republic of China. During this short six-week period, about 300,000 Chinese (mostly civilians) were killed and over 20,000 Chinese females (women, girls, and even very young girls) were raped, and one-third of the city of Nanking was burned to the ground.
Unlike Germany which later admitted its holocaust atrocities during WWII and paid compensations to the victims or their families, the Japanese government has never officially (i.e., with a resolution passed by their Parliament) admitted to the Nanking Massacre. As a matter of fact, many Japanese leaders and the Japanese mass media have said on many occasions that there was no Nanking Massacre, or any of the other WWII atrocities committed by the Japanese, such as sex slaves (estimated by historians to be as many as 200,000, and euphemistically referred to as Comfort Women). The most recent such statement was by the current Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who in 3/07 denied that the Japanese military had forced foreign women into sexual slavery during WWII.
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