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6! That's a lot longer than I heard, I think I'll cry if it works though! I hope I can find someone during covidAlso, if you decide to try it, the consensus is that it takes up to six sessions before you will know if you are responding or not. If you are not responding after six visits, then find someone else, quit treatment, or have them focus on a different aliment.
Any idea what the tea was made from?Eastern medicine incorporates medicinal teas. Highly recommend you opt for the tea and acquire the Chinese tea pot necessary to cook the teas. The tea reeks, tastes bitter, and is akin to drinking muddy swamp water. Bottoms up.
Frankly, if I had to guess I would say my progress was equally split between the tea vs the acupuncture. The teas are heavy duty based on thousands of years of Chinese medicine. You actually get a prescription, and conceptually it's like taking prescription medicine (instead of a pill full of inorganic compounds, you're drinking medicinal tea full of organic compounds). At the wrong dosages, the tea could potentially kill someone. The tea is something like 70% generic, where everyone gets the generic components, and then the balance is decided based on your health condition. You're diagnosed based on your tongue, pulse, and a basic review of your condition. The components are all naturally occurring substances - bark, stems, leaves, roots....Thanks for sharing that, I really appreciate the advice. I definitely wouldn't have thought a Chinese tea pot was that important. Sorry you haven't found a replacement practitioner, I hadn't considered such variability
Any idea what the tea was made from?
I had a series of scalp acupuncture sessions for depression. I believe a course of treatment is recommended. After maybe 3 treatments, the 4th one gave me relief. My brain was working better than usual - it was really interesting, my vocabulary improved instantly (I guess I knew the words, but I don't usually use them), I felt eloquent, happy, intelligent and functional. This lasted a few days, then the depression came back for me. I stopped the course of treatments, as I was travelling a long way, it was during Covid and the cost and also the practitioner was insensitive with me and distracted on his phone, which I couldn't handle given how ill I was and am. But the day or two it helped - it was amazing.
TLDR: on the days when it helped, it was one of the best treatments I have tried.
ps the practitioner I saw is in Ilford on on the tube. He is £90 a session for Scalp Acupuncture. TJ Wang.
I am not sure how Covid-safe his clinic is, as some patients don't wear masks. He kind of puts on a mask. But I did have a little success with the treatments, I just didn't want to keep travelling during Covid.