It's a boy!

[Guest guest]

Dear friends, colleagues and teachers,

 

About a half a year ago I wrote to you about the experience of treating a

patient on her last day before passing away. Now I want to share with you the

wonderful experience of treating a patient the day before she gave birth.

Wednesday evening, my associate, (who is a chiropractor) called me frantically:

A patient of his was more than a week overdue, and would I be able to use

acupuncture and Chinese medicine to induce labor? With His (not the

chiropractor's) help, I said yes, and met the couple at my office at 10:30 PM.

This was a 35 year old mother of 6. As she was late they had attempted

unsuccessfully to induce her by giving her a large dose of Pitocin, IV, the

previous week. Now she was scheduled the following morning to go back to the

hospital and give the pitocin another go. Her face was pale, she had big black

bags under her eyes, terrible low back pain with crepitus and her hands and feet

were ice cold. She had mild contractions but also had muscle spasms

in her back and legs. Her tongue was pale, with a thin white coat, her pulses

were slippery, generally thready, slow and choppy. I needled LI 4, LV3, Sp6,

St36, UB 60, GB21, Kd 3 and K7 and Sp9. I also taught her husband to Moxa K1,

3,6,7, Sp6 & 9 and St36, which he did while I was needling and treating with

CranioSacral therapy (CST). I asked her if she had a tendency to be anemic and

she said that she was. I therefore gave her Si Wu Tang in powder form, and told

her to take it every four hours that she was awake. She commented that she felt

like she was awoken from sleeping after the first dose. I also asked her to

take 1/3 teaspoon of magnesium citrate three times a day. I applied strong

stimulation on the reducing points, each for about 30 seconds, and retained the

needles for about 40 minutes, after which I removed them and applied CST, to her

abdomenal cavity, the area of her liver, her thoracic inlet (or outlet if you

prefer), her occiput and her sacrum.

While releasing her sacrum and pelvis, I felt the hips were rotated and the

presence of adhesions in the area of her hips (particularly the left hip), When

I checked, her left leg was 1 " longer than her right leg. After releasing the

sacrum, hips, inguinal canal and pelvis, the leg length was equal and the back

pain was gone. After 2 hours she was relaxed, the bags under the eyes were gone,

her face had a color, and the muscle spasms and back pain were gone.

 

The result? Nothing! She went to the hospital the next day and they again

insisted on inducing with Pitocin. I told her that Pitocin is a synthetic form

of Oxytocin, which she can stimulate the production thereof by stimulating her

nipples. Still nothing happened. Yet, she had had a wonderful night sleep (the

first one in 4 days), the baby was not in any distress at all, and as far as I

was concerned, was just not ready to come.

 

Finally, at 2am this morning she went into labor in earnest and an hour later

had her easiest birth yet, without any complications. She's doing wonderfully,

and the baby hasn't stopped smiling since birth. Why? because he was born when

he was ready, not when his doctors wanted him to be.

 

Mazal tov (congratulations!)

 

Yehuda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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