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Posted in theta healing topics on 06/18/2009 03:40 am by admin

Alternative Medicine, Chinese Healing Arts, Acupuncture, etc… Anyone know much about these topics?
I have an unexplainable stomach ache that comes for about a day each month. I have had almost every test possible done, and they’ve resorted to calling them “stomach migraines” and gave me a migraine pill that doesn’t work. I’m at the point where I want to step away from what I’ve been doing and want to try something completely new. What do I need to look for in a good alternative medicine doctor or clinic, what are the pros and cons, what is the best route to go, and how can I convince my parents it isn’t “a bunch of crap” and to open their minds?
Thanks for your time.
From your description, it’s almost certainly a menstruel problem. Western doctors are very ill suited at dealing with they can’t understand or explain, and label it as “psychosomatic or in your case stomach migranes (that doesn’t even make sense ~.~).” I emailed my Chinese doctor friend (he takes a bit to respond since internet access is harder to get in China), but once he replies to me I’ll give you his thoughts on your condition.
*Also do you know if the place that hurts is exactly the stomach, or one of the organs in the belly. You can look at an anatomy map to figure it out. This will make diagnosing your problem easier.
The TCM doctors in the US have a lot of women’s health practices, so they probably would have an idea about what’s going here. I also know naturopaths do something similar, so if you find one that specializes in women’s health they can help you. Naturopaths are state dependent though (in some they are worthless to see). You’d have to tell me which one you are in to know if there’s any point to that.
With your parents it really depends on how open minded they are (once again it depends on where you live as well). Assuming you don’t have a weird psyochosomatic condition (in which cause you need to find some sort of emotional trauma you’ve had that wasn’t dealt with, I had a friend who had something that vaguely resembeld your description after an abort and she fixed it with a form of chinese medicine..long story), if there’s a treatment for you, it’s going to be in the alt med field. You can pretty much tell them the reality. What I am doing does not work, I think this will. Do you want to help me or spend lots of money so I can be messed up for a long time?
Judging Chinese doctors is hard to do, especially if you don’t have a good grasp of the field (ie are new like you). Chinese medicine is more of an art than an exact scientific repeatable practice, so as a result, physician quality matters a lot more than from an MD and the quality of your doctor can create vastly different results. You mostly have to go off word of mouth and people’s opinions. I know some of the good doctors in a few areas of the US, so I might be able to help you there. If you’re a naturally intuitive person you might be able to tell if the doctor seems good or bad, and I guess at worse leave it to that. Also google whoever you’re considering because they will probably have some reviews online. *if it comes up ear acupuncture is probably not relevant for your condition so don’t accept anyone that proposes this.
Also, most of what Kalos is saying is BS. He hangs out on this forum and attacks a lot of alt med practices. The only topic I am “intimately familiar with” that he attacks is Chinese medicine (to the point I’d consider myself an “expert”). The western medicine establishment just has this sorta “hateful bias” against chinese medicine, so to a degree you have to accept people saying stuff like Kalos.
There’s a lot of stuff that bothers me on quackwatch, but I ended up writing and replying to this once since I was actually familiar enough on the subject matter to feel I could comment.
If you read his source give it a fair reading in context against mine;
http://www.guswut.com/quack.html
Hope all of that helps. This might be a lot to chew over, so get back to me if you have any more questions.
*edit my friend whos 19 had something similar to what youre describing (although hers was more painful) and we eventually figured out it was a fibroid.
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