by sunfish » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:11 pm
i still suffer from P under my nails.
Some years ago t the recommendation of a friend who had relief from shingles, I went to an acupuncturist a for help with my P and he prescribed courses of acupuncture and specifically soaking in black ordinary tea twice a day for say 5 minutes.
This was at a time when the P under my nails was very very bad.
This and the acupuncture did help my nails. I also had P arthritis is some of finger joints at different times. Again acupuncture did help with this.
I would say P at this location is very difficult to clear completely. But it is one version of P conventional medicine is of no help at all with.
My acupuncturist was both an ordinary GP and a acupuncturist. He only practiced acupuncture and wholistic medicine (vitamin shots etc ). he was a very experienced practitioner of Chinese descent. His brother also had a similar practice in another major city. Unfortunately he has now retired. I am not saying you standard acupuncturist has the kind of knowledge he had but i am sure the more experienced dedicated professionals do.
I recommend acupuncture as an adjunct for any treatment of P. there are open skeptics to acupuncture including many conventional doctors. But if they are so smart just ask them what causes P? they frankly don't know can only explain the symptoms not the cause. So if they don't understand what or how in the mechanisms of many deseases it is also possible they don't understand the what and how of many effective treatments as well.