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Here is a testimony from Kelly Maines on the benefits of Acupuncture:
Acupuncture changed my life. I am a twenty-three year old female who is a firm believer in the benefits of incorporating alternative healing methods into your life, and I am here to share my testimony.
My story sounds very similar to many of you reading this right now I am sure. I had for years experienced uncomfortable stomach issues that interfered with my daily quality of life. Numerous tests and appointments all ended with the same diagnosis: “IBS” or Irritable Bowl Syndrome. They treated me with medications that did not solve the issue at hand, but rather put a “band aid” over it leaving me no choice but to engage in a vicious cycle of continuous pill popping.
As a woman, I understand how your body is supposed to function properly, and how my body was not. My menstrual cycle started at age fifteen, was irregular, and then developed into amenorrhea (lack of a period). The answer by Western medicine was once again medication in the form of numerous different birth controls that left me feeling both moody and helpless.
I felt impotent in my circumstances; left to just “deal” with what my body had dealt me. Then I turned to acupuncture, and I am here to say my life was forever changed.
Upon my first appointment with my acupuncturist, I immediately felt like I was being treated as a unique individual, with attention to my own body’s quirks, not just like a statistic. After a year of acupuncture supplemented with herbs, what was termed “IBS” by Western medicine is completely gone and I can unfortunately count on my monthly cycle to be just that, annoyingly regular as it should be!
I urge you as an advocate of your own body to take into consideration all that is possible with alternative medicine; the natural remedy that has been the longest practicing medicine in history.
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