Over From ER....

 She came through ER over the weekend for acute back and leg pain, and admitted for tests and meds.  She was discharged on Monday, and back to ER on Thursday, without relief, asking to be guernied over to the pain clinic for acupuncture.   She was wheeled into the the clinic mid-morning, crying and white-knuckling, begging for relief.  The pain was rolling down her leg, from the hip to the toe, along the gall bladder meridian.  I went up to her right ear and placed tiny needles that barely fit between my ring-size eleven fingers into 4 points on her ear, shen men (spirit gate) hip, leg and brain stem, and watched her hyper down, like an air mattress deflating.  After a walk through of the 4 rooms manned by 4 acupuncture interns, I went back out and checked on our ER visitor.  She was dozing fitfully.  I reached down and pressed the gall bladder point in the hollow of her hip, and linked it up to the gall bladder point between his 4th and 5th toe, opening up the channel, and further reducing the pain.  About 45 minutes later transport returned, to wheel her back to ER, leaving all the needles, and most of the pain behind.

The ear is a remarkable energetic keypad to body function.  This was never more clear to me than when I visited a marine amputee at Bethesda Naval Hospital who was having trouble breathing.  When he lost his legs he lost half his kidney meridians.  In Chinese Medicine the Kidney Energy pulls down the breath.  That's demonstrated with the slap over the kidneys that kick-starts a newborn's breath. I put a needle in the kidney point on this marine's ear and which immediately reversed his hyperventilation, and visibly settles his spirit. I look forward to wider use of this remarkable therapy in ER. fy