II. Common Alternative Therapies Cannot Solve our Health Crisis  

by Yee-Wing Tong, M.D., January 2009 

 People are seeking alternatives to orthodox medicine

 A recent article in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Alternative Medicine Is Mainstream – the evidence is mounting that diet and lifestyle are the best cures for our worst afflictions” by four prominent physicians/scholars touts the benefits of alternative therapies (1). Today, patients and practitioners en mass are seeking alternatives to modern medicine, as a century of aggressive modern medicine has exposed the lethal effects of toxic drugs and invasive surgeries. Even as early as 1998, a JAMA study showed that the utilization of alternative therapies has increased 47% from 427 million visits in 1990 to 609 million in 1997, and the total out-of-pocket costs on alternative therapies in 1997, conservatively estimated at $27 billion, was comparable to that paid for services of all physicians (2). The demand for them is likely much higher today as more insurance companies are paying for alternative therapies. However, unlike what the above article claims, the strong interest in alternative therapies is not so much because they are effective, but rather because they serve as a sanctuary for the onslaught of drugs and surgeries. This conclusion is based on both personal and professional experience.  

My journey from the orthodox to unorthodox

  The journey that has led me to this conclusion began with my study of pharmacology in medical school, when I discovered the fallacy of drug therapy - it endlessly masks symptoms but never cures their cause. Equally unacceptable is that each drug has numerous side effects, which can be deadly, especially when taken chronically. To avoid giving patients drugs on a long-term basis, I chose to specialize in anesthesiology, and since then have been searching for non-drug remedies. 

 It was shortly after that I encountered the art of acupuncture. Although skeptical, I decided to learn it. Subsequently, I became interested in pain control and began combining acupuncture with nerve blocks to treat chronic disorders during my spare time from anesthesia. Even then, I was often astonished by the remarkable results that could be achieved with this East-West synthesis, which I called Neuro-BioEnergetics, or NBE. 

 To explore the foundation of acupuncture, I began learning qigong – an exercise involving energy qi, the basis of Chinese medicine. I learned to feel the qi within my body, and also to emit it from my body and cause movements on people standing many feet away. It dawned on me that this qi the Chinese discovered is magnetic energy from our mind, which is also the fuel for living functions as I learned later. I then tried treating patients with qigong. However, within four to five months of daily draining my life energy, I developed a condition of qi deficiency. 

 I experienced fatigue, recurrent pain and anxiety. The symptoms could be severe, yet my lab tests were normal with no organic disease detectable by my western colleagues. I sought help from masters of qigong and Chinese medicine in the U.S. and China with no results. The most helpful was self treatment with my NBE method, and I had to teach my children to treat points on my back. Gradually, I cured my symptoms, but continued to give myself periodic “tune ups.” The experience gained from over 18 years of self-experimentation enabled me to achieve the unusual results described below.  

Common alternative therapies are ineffective for severe disorders 

 My healing journey led me to try various alternative therapies: chiropractics, homeopathy, naturopathics, herbs, aromatherapy, supplements, meditation, tui-na, acupressure and yoga. Most therapies provided some help, but truthfully, none came close to the instant profound relief from the NBE method. A similar conclusion can be drawn from our patients. Nearly all of them began with orthodox medicine, but its harmful effects forced them to seek alternatives. Unfortunately, common alternative remedies are seldom helpful for serious disorders. Most patients with severe symptoms would take chemical drugs for relief, even if they had to suffer their side effects. 

Therefore, we find it difficult to agree with the statement that “diet and lifestyle are the best cures for our worst afflictions.” They are essential adjuncts to natural therapies, yet combining them with common alternative therapies is rarely effective for severe ailments. The sad truth is, natural modalities usually fail to cure serious problems, and the therapy is still an endless process. Chiropractics, for example, seldom cures a disease.  

Furthermore, it is not easy to adjust diet and lifestyle habits without adequate symptom relief. For instance, it is difficult and even risky for patients with arthritic or chest pain to exercise, or those with emotional issues to lose weight and maintain it, or depressed patients to be mentally positive. Thus, it is the physicians' task to first alleviate symptoms. Unfortunately, many orthodox doctors fail to relieve the symptoms with their therapies and blame their patients by telling them that their problems are all in their heads.  

The NBE therapy is the key to solving our health crisis  

Thus, alternative medicine becomes popular merely by default because it is less harmful. To solve our health crisis, we need a definitively superior therapy, such as the NBE. For example, in a 1996 conference at the Maricopa Medical Center, I presented a study entitled "Chronic Disorders Are Curable with Neuro-BioEnergetics Treatment," based on reports completed by 1,000 patients with a variety of chronic disorders, including chronic pain, metabolic, surgical and mental problems. The reports showed that: 40.8% rated the NBE therapy as "Much Better Than," 54.2% as "Better Than," 4.0% as "The Same As," and 1.0% as "Worse Than" their previous treatments (3, 4). And Nearly 90% of our patients had tried other alternative therapies. When asked to compare the NBE therapy with other helpful therapies, their most common reply was, “Oh no, nothing like yours!” The instant relief from the NBE treatment is also far superior to that from drugs and without adverse effects. An added benefit is that symptom relief is always accompanied by emotional improvement, which shows that soma and psychi are inseparable. 

Most importantly, however, the NBE method cures the underlying disease of severe disorders refractory to orthodox and unorthodox therapies. In fact, it is so effective that the majority of patients can usually discontinue most, if not all, medications after the initial treatment! Moreover, they can stop all therapies when their health is restored. As will be explained below, it is the mind and spirit that maintain health with their qi. There is no knowledge of spirit and qi in Western medicine; thus, little is known about health and how to cure chronic disorders. Alternative therapies, on the other hand, heal through qi, but they seldom produce the profound relief typical of the NBE method, and are usually not effective for serious disorders. Hence, the NBE method is the critical element in resolving our health crisis.  

Case illustrations (CH = case history, RS = radio show, YT = Youtube video)  

a. Lipoma, Candidiasis, Abdominal Bloating, Fatigue, Tinea Pedis, depression, visual problem (RS 12-16-00, ) – Cheri was a 51-year-old white female who experienced constant right leg pain extending to her back associated with a 9 x 7 cm lypoma on her hip, which developed after a hysterectomy in 1999. Even though an MRI showed no malignancy, her doctors still recommended surgery, which she refused. She also suffered from tinea pedis in her left foot for three years, which drugs and creams failed to heal. She became severely fatigued and depressed, and lost normal visual acuity such that she could not read freeway signs until she drove under them. She also frequently experienced “road rage” while driving. Tylenol with Codeine and other medications failed to relieve the pain. Antibiotics and other prescribed drugs did not help, only caused her to develop candidiasis and immense abdominal and intestinal bloating.

She tried all sorts of alternative therapies to no avail. Three months of chelation therapy caused her tumor to increase in size. Herbs, ozonated water, and hydrogen peroxide only made her nauseous but provided no relief. Vegetarian diets without dairy, and a colon/liver cleanse with Diflucan, Cultrasil, and remedies from Dr. Schultz lessened the gas and bloating, but did not relieve the abdominal distention and other pain.

To her delight, her first NBE treatment provided so much improvement that she felt like a new person. She had tremendous energy, practically pain-free and was happy! With further treatments her lypoma shrunk in size to the point where she no longer noticed it. Her candida, abdominal bloating and pain was eradicated and the abdomen returned to normal size and remained cured with our recommended diet. Her vision also returned to normal. She moved to Las Vegas and came back for treatments on rare occasions (once every couple of years) with exacerbation of symptoms due to stress or other factors. Each time she obtained instant results and required no more than 3-4 treatments. In between these exacerbation, she remains energetic and symptom free. 

 b. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), wrist, arm, shoulder, neck, head and eye pain, depression (YT 1-15-09) Jama's Video A10- Jama, a 30-year-old R.N., sprained her right wrist at work and developed a painful condition called RSD that rendered her disabled for over 18 months. Her pain started at the wrist and spread to her shoulder, neck and right face, causing headaches and eye pain as well. The constant pain was so excruciating that the slightest wind caused exacerbation. She consulted a hand specialist, pain specialist, and many others, each of whom performed a barrage of tests, but all ended up prescribing various drugs. Even the strongest narcotics failed to provide any pain relief. She developed insomnia as a result, but found the side effects of the prescribed sleeping pills and other medications so intolerable that she finally discontinued them and sought non-drug alternatives. She received acupuncture two to three times per week for nearly ten months, which provided some help. Subsequently, she became pregnant, and her symptoms exacerbated. After the birth of her child, she returned to acupuncture, but found the results less satisfactory. She was referred to us by another R.N.

  I only gave her one acupuncture treatment, as her Worker's Comp (WC) did not allow the NBE therapy. To her surprise, her pain was completely alleviated. She was stunned as she had previously undergone 10 months of acupuncture, which never provided anything near this degree of relief. Acupuncture results, however, are not as long-lasting as those of the NBE therapy. Subsequently, we had approval for two NBE treatments, which she said ameliorated her condition "60-70 percents!" In spite of this incredible success achieved without utilizing any diagnostic tests, compared to the total failure of more than 18 months of conventional evaluations, costly tests, and treatments that WC readily approved, four WC utilization reviewers, all unsympathetic physicians, would not allow further NBE therapy! As she refuses to take drugs, which she says aggravate rather than help her problem, and acupuncture elsewhere does not help, her condition after two months has regressed back to the same miserable state as when we first saw her.

 This kind of injustice denials by conventional physician reviewers are so common in my 25 years of practice that they must be stopped. We will send this case to the White House Healthcare Team and persist until we get its attention.  

 c. Failed back surgery syndrome, depression (CH, YT 12-10-08) Judy's Video - Judy was a 65-year-old white female who began experiencing excruciating back pain during her fourth pregnancy. She consulted an orthopedic surgeon, and tried a plethora of drugs, physical therapy, traction, and a shoe lift without any relief. After five years, she underwent a L4-5 laminectomy and fusion, and subsequently spent three months in a full body cast, followed by six months in a walking body cast. Her pain did not change, and the surgeon told her that it was “only in her head.” She underwent another back surgery, spent one month at the Johns Hopkins Pain Clinic, was treated at the USC Medical Center, and tried new medications. For the next 21 years, she sought help from numerous specialists, acupuncturists, chiropractors and other unorthodox therapies, all to no avail. The pain drove her to two suicidal attempts and she was planning a third attempt when she learned about us. 

 The pain that had engulfed her right side for 28 years was totally alleviated with the first treatment! Over the next three years, she continued NBE treatments for her pain as well as chronic yeast infections, recurrent bronchitis, pneumonia, and depression, all a result of side effects from her medications. The major ailments in which she suffered for decades were eventually eliminated. She moved out of state 18 years ago and informed us by phone a few years back that she had remained symptom-free and was seeing a chiropractor occasionally for minor problems.  

d. Back pain, neck pain, headaches (RS 9-1-01) - Vladimir was a 64-year-old white male who suffered severe back and neck pain with headaches for two years after a car accident. He had 106 acupuncture treatments, two to three times per week, for one year at South Baylo University of Chinese Medicine in Southern California, which only provided minimal relief. In contrast, he obtained great results from his first NBE treatment. He was cured after four treatments and has not needed another NBE treatment for four years and lost to follow up. 

 e. Subdural Hematoma, stroke, seizures (RS 9-1-01) J7 - Rosa, Vladimir’s mother (RS 7-7-01), was an 86-year-old female who suffered a subdural hematoma from a brain surgery. Doctors had given up on her, and she was left to die in the ICU. Refusing to accept this fate for his mother, Vladimir used herbs and brought in an acupuncturist. The combined therapies saved her life but did not relieve her pain, frequent seizures, slurred speech and falling to one side from merely standing. Her son then brought her to us.

After ten NBE treatments, she could walk over 500 feet at a time without a cane or any assistance, her speech was no longer slurred, and her seizures were reduced. Her liver enzymes, which were elevated due to the numerous drugs she took, also returned to normal as a result of our treatments. 

 f. Hypertension, bypass surgery, atrial fibrillation, heart murmur, back pain, psoriasis, diabetes, sugar cravings (RS 12-13-03 ) – Fran was a 68-year-old white female who had back problems for nine years after a fall. For eight years, she used a wheelchair to go out and a walker or cane at home. The pain was so severe that she required frequent ER visits for morphine shots. She also suffered from hypertension, atrial fibrillation, heart murmurs, and tachycardia (fast heart rate), for which she underwent bypass surgery, but had no relief. She also had psoriasis and discoloration of her legs. She worked for a former heart surgeon and famous author of books on natural remedies, who exhausted all kinds of orthodox and unorthodox treatments, including acupuncture, without success.

  In contrast, three NBE treatments provided so much relief that she could now walk normally, using her cane only sparingly. With more therapies from us, her pulse had slowed from 90 to the more normal and regular 75 beats per minute. Fran replaced all of her medication with our therapies and diet changes, using short-term herbs and alkaline water. Her psoriasis and the discoloration in her legs also faded. Her systolic blood pressure had dropped from 190 to 120 without drugs. Her sugar cravings were reduced, and her energy greatly improved. She was also emotionally more stable. Unfortunately, we could not continue her treatment due to insurance restrictions – a common problem with our therapies.  

g. Indigestion, gastric bloating, low back pain - (YT 11-25-08) Video 1 Video 2 , (RS 8-25-01) - Dickie was a 79-year-old white female who worked in the food supplement industry most of her life. As a result, she has an excellent knowledge of natural remedies that has kept her in good health. She fell at work and developed severe back pain, which did not respond to alternative therapies or supplements. She had to be lifted onto our treatment table by two people, but she got off the table without pain or assistance after her first NBE treatment! After her second treatment, a week later, she was able to twist and dance in our hall way.  

Her Work Comp (WC) insurance disallowed additional treatments. Subsequently, she moved to Idaho and the pain gradually returned. She went to 12 specialists authorized by WC and had a barrage of tests as well as numerous drugs and other treatments, all to no avail. She then received acupuncture treatments, one to three times per week sporadically for seven years with no significant relief. Because of the chronic suffering, she also developed indigestion, gas, abdominal pain and distention, especially after food intake. For this, she also received over two years of intensive acupuncture with only minimal relief.  

She flew back to us. After one NBE treatment her back pain and digestive symptoms disappeared, including a marked reduction in abdominal distension as shown on our YT video. With the relief, her facial expression and demeanor also dramatically improved. She then told us about her hand that had become painful and cold for decades after an injury. The hand became warm and pain-free after only two treatments.  

h. Back pain, knee injury, elbow and shoulder pain, fatigue, insomnia, anger (RS 1-20-01, 3-3-01) - Henry was a 48-year-old Spanish tennis player suffering chronic back pain associated with compressed discs. This condition and a knee injury rendered him unable to play tennis for many years. Orthodox therapies and physical therapies failed to help, and knee surgery was recommended. He decided to try the NBE approach instead, and was able to obtain 80 percents relief with his first treatment. Moreover, he was able to return to playing tennis after four treatments, and further stated that not only he could run around "like a jack rabbit," his tennis skills greatly improved. Subsequently, he injured his elbow and received prolotherapy, which unfortunately, increased his pain and also froze his shoulder as well. He returned to us for another four NBE treatments, which eradicated all his pain. He was also pleasantly surprised that he was able to weigh lift 160 lbs, 60 lbs more than his life-time average of 100 lbs. 

She took four Xanax to suppress her fear of flying to get on a plane to see us. After her first NBE treatment, her anxiety was alleviated. She could breath deeply, was calm, and her heart rate slowed to normal. Further treatments eliminated her hot flashes, intestinal gas and pain, restored her normal vision, and she was able to discontinue all medication. She has not had any anxiety and panic attacks for six years, as confirmed by a phone call few years ago.  

j. Systemic lupus (SLE), Rheumatoid Arthritis, Bipolar Disorder, asthma, chronic pain, hypertension, seizures, eczema, glaucoma, endometriosis, insomnia, hair loss, strokes, heart attacks. (RS 4-26-08, 6-7-08) J11 - Darlene was Dr. Elain Tong's (my daughter) patient during her Residency in Family Medicine, and has not received any treatment from me. She is a 51-year-old black lady with a history in her early teens of juvenile arthritis, for which she was treated with liquid Phenobarbital. In her 20’s, she developed asthma, generalized skin rashes, eczema, hair loss, and poor eyesight. Ten years later, she was diagnosed with SLE, suffering from severe joint pain and swelling, which made it difficult for her to walk and frequently rendered her bedridden. She was in and out of hospitals. She later had two strokes and three heart attacks, the last one in 1995. Subsequently, she was declared permanently disabled. 

 Her diagnoses included SLE, chronic pain, hypertension, bipolar disorder, asthma, seizure disorder, glaucoma, endometriosis, and insomnia. Her medications included Lithium, Risperdal, Neurontin, NSAID’s, Tegretol, Kadian, Lexapro, Methotrexate, Benadryl, Benazapril, Travatan, Duragesic patches, Albuterol and repeated use of steroids, which caused weight gain and other side effects. Despite these drugs, in 2007 she visited the ER on average every two weeks for strong narcotic shots and required several hospitalizations as well. She began receiving osteopathic manipulative therapy and acupuncture in 1995, both of which made her pain more tolerable. Yet 13 years of these combined alternative therapies failed to reduce her medication requirement or the frequent ER visits and hospitalizations in 2007. She also stated that her ability to perform daily activities continued to deteriorate.  

She was referred to Dr. Elain Tong in February of 2008, and within five to six NBE treatments, most of her symptoms were alleviated and she was able to discontinue all her medications except the Duragesic patch and Albuterol which were both reduced in dosage! By June of 2008, she only needed the patches on rare occasions, and had dropped the Albuterol from three times or more daily to once a week as needed! Moreover, since Dr. Elain Tong’s intervention, Darlene has not been admitted to the ER or hospital for pain. All of the above improvements were accomplished through ten sporadic treatments within four months! In addition, her activities have returned to nearly normal. And for the first time in decades, she can appreciate humor, as evident from her frequent chuckles on her second radio show.  

DISCUSSION 

Fallacy of drug therapies and studies 

 The above cases expose the fallacy of studies and therapies of drugs. Specifically, these patients spent years or decades taking countless drugs, each of them having been scrutinized by thousands of experimental trials, yet failed to provide the supposed benefits confirmed by their trials. Moreover, drug studies merely validated symptom-suppression, not health restoration. Drugs never improve health, as they are not needed for body functions or structures. In fact, the opposite is true. All drugs are toxic chemicals and deteriorate health, especially with excessive use. 

On the other hand, thousands of similar cases prove that the NBE method can readily reverse nearly all western syndromes, such as arthritis, diabetes, the flu, other infections, Alzheimer's, cancer, suicidal tendency, depression, other mental ailments, and even aging. In addition, many patients were able to stop most or all medications after only one treatment! Such effective results are unprecedented in medical history.

 Considering further that we use only 2-4 cc of 0.75 percent Marcaine per treatment (the amount needed to extract a couple of teeth), the relief usually lasts for a week or longer - far beyond Marcaine's duration of action. This indicates that the treatment is curing the disease by restoring health. Eventually, most patients can stop all therapies while remaining symptom-free, proving that chronic ailments can indeed be cured. Since this approach is based on Chinese principles, our results validate Chinese medicine.

  Material body vs. immaterial spirit 

 Chinese medicine, unlike western medicine which recognizes only the body, encompasses both mind and body. It is congruent to quantum physics' dual existence of wave and particle, or energy and matter, which is mind and body, respectively, in the human. The ancient Chinese observed that the true nature of matter is mind/soul/spirit, whose energies, called qi, provide the fuel for physiological functions and health maintenance. 

To see this, consider Einstein's E = mc², which indicates that our existence is all energy, and that matter (or the body) is merely material energy. Renowned physicist Niel's Bohr's complementary principle posits that the material body must have an immaterial counterpart. (For this idea, Bohr gave credit to the Chinese yin/yang concept by choosing the Taoist Tai Chi sign of complementary opposites for his coat of arms when he was knighted by the Danish government.) We observe further that death is associated with a total loss of living functions but no loss of material element, meaning that it is the immaterial spirit rather than the material body that fuels living functions. This fact can be further confirmed with another law of physics called entropy, which we shall discuss in another chapter.  

Consider further the case of multiple personality disorder, such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which are in fact two people, or two spirits, sharing one body. The body is recognized as either Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde depending on which spirit is in control. Moreover, the body at the beginning (conception) of a life time consists of only one cell, which can hardly be identified as a human being. However, the spirit at all stages of life is a mature living entity (I shall also prove this later with physics), which creates materials for the growth and health-maintenance of the body.  

Spirit creates and governs  

To create material, the spirit uses qi from air, water or food. There are rare individuals who can survive for years without consuming food, using only qi from air and water they acquired (5). In fact, there are enlightened adepts, such as Saibaba of India, who has the power of materialization - creating inanimate materials at will, using only the qi from the atmosphere (6).

It is logical that the creator governs its creation. The fact that spirit governs the body is clearly manifested in multiple personality syndromes. In these cases, disorders from one spirit in the body disappear when another spirit that does not have the disorders takes control of the body. Even facial appearance, menstruation, and habits change when the governing spirit changes. These findings repudiate western medicine's idea that the mind is confined within the brain. In reality, the mental realm not only contains the body, it is also boundless, as explained mathematically by former Stanford Professor W. Tiller (7).  

The mind-body mechanism

 Since mind is boundless, our mind can affect other entities, and other mind can similarly affect our health. Indeed, studies have shown ....- (this paragraph will be submitted to those who wish to publish this article)  

Healing power of alternative therapies  

Traffic jams along meridians freeway cause mind/body blockages, depriving the area of healing qi and resulting in symptoms. The qi/blood blockages cause tissue spasms. Relieving the spasm hence restores qi and blood flow and cures the symptoms. The effects of acupressure, shiatsu, Rolphing, deep-tissue massage and similar techniques are limited, as they do not adequately relieve the deep tissue spasm. Meridian blockages in the back can cause uneven muscle tensions leading to spine alignment problems. Chiropractic spine adjustments usually lead to temporary relief, as the root problems are the qi blockages.

 Mental techniques, such as prayer, the placebo effect, biofeedback, imagery, meditation, qigong, etc., usually has minimal effect. The efficacy depends on the ability of an individual to connect and draw from the cosmic energies the appropriate qi needed. However, extremely skillful individuals can produce incredible results, as in deliberate self-induced injuries, where driving a big nail through the face can result in no pain, no bleeding and no harm (14). Some people can endure tooth extractions without pain because of the mind/body connection they mentally produced at the local site. Emotional Freedom Technique, which combines the tapping of acupuncture points (acupressure) with psychological consulting (mental technique), produces efficacy similar to the above categories.

  A homeopathic remedy is made by continually diluting a natural material to the point that its material elements disappear, leaving only the immaterial healing qi essence. Homeopathics, foods, supplements, Chinese, Ayurveda and other herbs help you only if they contain the qi's that you need. A natural remedy is harmful to you if it contains qi's that you already have an excessive amount, thus will cause an energy imbalance.

For example, garlic, generally touted as a panacea, is energetically hot and will cause harm to people with excessive heat. Wholefood supplements are better than synthetic vitamins, as synthetic materials lack beneficial qi. The efficacy of herbal or nutritional supplements depends on a formula that best corrects the qi imbalances.  Chelation is the use of ethylenediaminetetraaceticacid (EDTA) to bind toxic heavy metals and remove them from the body. The problem is that it also binds metals, such as zinc and iron, that are essential nutrients. Moreover, its benefits have never been scientifically substantiated. More importantly, its therapeutic principle is wrong, as excessive poisonous metals are merely the symptom, whereas the underlying cause of the problem is the body's functional inability to remove them. Therefore, long-term use of chelation will further weaken this toxin-disposing function, and cause harm to the kidney due to the large size of EDTA.

  A crucial point to note is that qi opens blood circulation, and the blockage of qi flow result in the collapse of capillaries and disruption of blood flow. Thus, the efficacy of oxygen therapies, such as hyperbaric oxygen, are limited with qi blockages, as there are no red blood cells to receive the oxygen. A better approach is to restore health, or independent functions of the patients so that they can function normally in atmospheric oxygen.  

In our experience, the skillful use of acupuncture to clear the spastic blockages can produce better results than most common alternative therapies. Many patients, who have failed to find relief from other alternative therapies, including previous acupuncture treatments, came to us for acupuncture treatments because they could not afford the NBE therapy. I usually could provide relief for them with my first acupuncture treatment, just as I did for Jama in case (b). From the histories of our patients in my 25 years of practice, skillful acupuncturists are rare in this country.  

The NBE method is the most effective current therapy  

The most powerful technique to clear spastic blockages, thanks to western technology, is the use of anesthetic nerve blocks, such as my NBE method. Trigger point therapy and neural therapy are similar to the NBE method. However, without the knowledge of Chinese medicine, it is not possible to obtain results comparable to those presented above. For example, in one study on trigger point injections, patients were given as much as 100-125 injections, which is excessive and indicates that the practitioner does not know the true problem. A knowledgeable doctor can produce better result with 20 injections. My knowledge of Chinese medicine is only average. My good results come from over 18 years of self-treatments, experimentation and meditations, all of which provide intuition as to the causes of the problems in a patient.  

Prolotherapy is another similar technique using dextrose, hyaluronic acid or other agents rather than anesthetics, as used in my method. What works in prolotherapy is the accidental injection and clearing of the right qi blockages. The healing is from restoration of the qi flow rather than from the effects of the materials used. In fact, injecting the wrong points can cause severe exacerbations as happened in case (g) above. 

Examine also the case of Diana (RS 3-16-02, 9-17-02), who for ten years had severe muscular dystrophy, in which one leg is much smaller than the normal one. Our therapy restored the dystrophic leg to normal size within three months. A similar case is Kevin (RS 8-10-02, YT James Robison 11-25-2008), a 15-year-old with growth retardation. He was 5' tall at age 15 while both his parents are over 6' in heights. He came to California from Utah twice and received five treatments, which resulted in a 3-1/2" growth within the next 12 months. None of the material agents used in prolotherapy can improve growth and healing, only qi can. 

 Again, thanks to western technology, homeopathic injectables can be added to the anesthetic solution to enhance qi balance. The solution can also be alkalized with sodium bicarbonate to reduce the pain of the injections and neutralize the acids released from clearing the blockages. 

Acute injuries, except those that need surgery, are easy to cure, just like new traffic jams are easy to resolve. I was involved in a tennis game in which a player was smashed by the ball between the eyes. He was in agony, rolling on a bench with profuse tearing. I massaged his injured area for four to five minutes, and he was able to resume playing normally. Also, it is very common that patients would complain about new problems while receiving regular treatments, and we would cure them with just a few shots.  

In summary, based on the histories of thousands of patients as well as my own experience, we can conclude that common alternative therapies are not effective for severe ailments. Even for less serious disorders, our results show that their efficacy does not come close to that of the NBE method. Hence, the massive shift from orthodox medicine to alternative medicine would not cause a significant change of our health crisis, not the dramatic improvements that the NBE approach can produce, as we shall discuss next.  

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