Process Journal #13
Today I had the first experience with traditional Chinese medicine, specifically with acupuncture. It was the most amazing and shocking thing that I have ever experienced, and I loved it.
First, when I arrived at Tao Wellness studio, I wanted to directly lie down and see how the needles are inserted into my body so as to let my Qi flow.
However, first of all, Dr. Melanie Johnson, the doctor who practices Chinese medicine, did the Chinese diagnosis (which I already knew what it was because of my investigation). She asked me some questions regarding my health condition, she took my pulse and then she saw my tongue. This procedure is important to do in traditional Chinese medicine because the pulse and tongue can directly …show more content…
Nevertheless, the first needle she inserted was painless. In fact, the first needle that she put in my head gave me a sense of peace and tranquility as if all my worries have been washed away.
Melanie, my doctor, as she was inserting the needles, she was telling me which meridian and what acupuncture point she was targeting and with what purpose. When Dr. Melanie inserted a needle in one side of my leg, I felt like an electricity that ran all over my leg. Dr. Melanie told me that she had felt it too, and that is called the Qi. That meant that I just felt my energy. Melanie explained to me that sensitive patient or regular patients feel the Qi. Therefore, I was a sensitive patient. Anyway, all this experience I will put on my blog.
My mother and sister helped me to take photos and videos. For my mother, this was new even though she has been treated with something similar to Chinese medicine (the modern acupuncture that is with a laser). Both of them, my mom and sister, loved to see it and hear all the information that the doctor was providing …show more content…
But in that time, we used to think that there wasn’t any other alternative. Indeed, the pills worked, but I have to take them for 8 months more and I have been taking them for 5 months. But my parents and I talked and neither of us wanted me to continue taking the pills, instead, since I was thinking of doing my project about traditional Chinese medicine I thought that it will be perfect to regulate my period with Chinese medicine. Therefore, my parents and I decided to continue taking the pills until I begin doing my personal project and going to the doctor that practices traditional Chinese
Today I had the first experience with traditional Chinese medicine, specifically with acupuncture. It was the most amazing and shocking thing that I have ever experienced, and I loved it.
First, when I arrived at Tao Wellness studio, I wanted to directly lie down and see how the needles are inserted into my body so as to let my Qi flow.
However, first of all, Dr. Melanie Johnson, the doctor who practices Chinese medicine, did the Chinese diagnosis (which I already knew what it was because of my investigation). She asked me some questions regarding my health condition, she took my pulse and then she saw my tongue. This procedure is important to do in traditional Chinese medicine because the pulse and tongue can directly …show more content…
Nevertheless, the first needle she inserted was painless. In fact, the first needle that she put in my head gave me a sense of peace and tranquility as if all my worries have been washed away.
Melanie, my doctor, as she was inserting the needles, she was telling me which meridian and what acupuncture point she was targeting and with what purpose. When Dr. Melanie inserted a needle in one side of my leg, I felt like an electricity that ran all over my leg. Dr. Melanie told me that she had felt it too, and that is called the Qi. That meant that I just felt my energy. Melanie explained to me that sensitive patient or regular patients feel the Qi. Therefore, I was a sensitive patient. Anyway, all this experience I will put on my blog.
My mother and sister helped me to take photos and videos. For my mother, this was new even though she has been treated with something similar to Chinese medicine (the modern acupuncture that is with a laser). Both of them, my mom and sister, loved to see it and hear all the information that the doctor was providing …show more content…
But in that time, we used to think that there wasn’t any other alternative. Indeed, the pills worked, but I have to take them for 8 months more and I have been taking them for 5 months. But my parents and I talked and neither of us wanted me to continue taking the pills, instead, since I was thinking of doing my project about traditional Chinese medicine I thought that it will be perfect to regulate my period with Chinese medicine. Therefore, my parents and I decided to continue taking the pills until I begin doing my personal project and going to the doctor that practices traditional Chinese