Pneumonia & Pleurisy Acupuncture Treatment

My western doctor said I may have pneumonia, pleurisy, and maybe shingles. It is almost like multiple choice and I can choose my preferred diagnosis. Needless to say, my doctor gave me a course of antibiotics along and a prescription for Darvon.

After not improving with my doctors hit or miss treatment plan, I visited Pat, my acupuncturist, and asked her to do some magic and make me either pain-free or turn me into a non-complainer.

Pat agreed to the challenge.

I lay on the acupuncture table and Pat placed a moist warm wet towel around what looked like a hot water bottle that was connected to some electrical wires and equipment. She then placed two acupuncture needles deep in my left thumb. DEEP! (I think she even twisted and turned them a bit and my thought was “OK, I’ll stop complaining. I get the point!” But I only smiled and said “no, that’s fine. I can take it!”)

Pat left the room and I was alone in the room with my eyes closed.

I immediately had the sensation there was an argument going on over me. I could “feel” and “see” in my mind two Chinese men in an animated argument. One of the men was standing on my left and the other was standing on my right, both facing each other with me laying in the middle. They acted like I wasn’t even present and listening. I watched their animated and forceful conversation, not understanding a word they were speaking, but they were both angry.

After a few minutes Pat returned to the room and asked how I was. I reported there was a fight going on with two Chinese men standing over me. She did not see or hear them, which at first surprised me, but then it made sense. I was the only one watching this in my mind.

Pat’s perception of my report was this was my immune system communicating how it is trying to fight its way back. I could only see it as two Chinese men having an argument in my presence, however.

Pat then made an adjustment on the machine and again left the room. The two Chinese men who had been arguing over my body were now gone. They had immediately vanished! I was now in a state of feeling nothing and hearing nothing. I was alone in the room.

Slowly I could feel a new sensation begin. It felt as is a lotus flower was opening and unfolding on the top of my head, right near my forehead, but on my hair. There were no other sensations but that tingling sensation and the impression it was a lotus flower opening.

Pat returned once again and asked if I could stay for another 10 minutes. I said “of course” and she made another adjustment on the electrical equipment. I immediately felt a change within me and my immediate thought was “this is right…this is what I needed”.

I still had my eyes shut but I could now see a bright vibrant red color. It felt soothing for a few seconds, but I then saw some black strips starting to come up and slash through the bright red comforting color. Those black strips were now becoming more energized and powerful and they started to dominate and take over the red. The red was now gone and the color was all black.

I could also feel some tingling going on in my chin. It almost felt as if there were needles in a half circle below my lower lip sticking in my chin, even though I knew there was nothing there. I could feel my chin tingle with energy.

Pat then walked into the room, and the acupuncture session ended. I shared my experience with Pat who said the lungs and the chin are connected so feeling tingling in my chin was aligned with the work she had been doing on me today.

What puzzles me, however, is there were two different incidences of conflict happening during the treatment. The first was a representation of a conflict going on outside my body and the other was a conflict going on within my body.

It probably means there is relationship between the conflict going on outside of me and what is happening within me. The ability to heal can be affected by what is going on around a person, and perhaps the message from this acupuncture treatment is I need to treat my environment in addition to treating the inner me.

Pneumonia & Pleurisy Acupuncture Treatment