Me v Wikipedia

According to Wikipedia, acupuncture is quackery.

There are many people like myself who have found acupuncture helpful. For me it has cured a number of physical, emotional/mental issues, it has eased muscles, stopped eczema, reduced inflammation, stopped and reduced pain

Acupuncture is a component of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the oldest continuous medical treatment form, it is still taught and used all over the world today. It is a system of in which fine needles are inserted in the skin at specific points along what are considered to be lines of energy (meridians)

A fascia is a band or sheet of connective tissue, primarily collagen, beneath the skin that attaches, stabilizes, encloses, and separates muscles and other internal organs.

Fascia is classified by layer, as superficial fascia, deep fascia, and visceral or parietal fascia, or by its function and anatomical location. Surgeons cut through these layers with impunity and little thought. It is common in the West to cut into fascia to release tension and relieve inflammation. Until recently the Western medical practise had done little, if any research on whether fascia had a function.

Recent research on the fascial network has indicated that acupuncture points coincide with fascial trigger points which suggests that acupuncture functions by means of fascial treatment.

Fasciae are similar to ligaments and tendons, they. They differ in their location and function: ligaments join bone to bone, tendons join muscle to bone, and fasciae surround muscles and most other structures.

All three have collagen as their major component. They are made up of fibrous connective tissue containing closely packed bundles of collagen fibres oriented in a wavy pattern parallel to the direction of pull. Fascia is consequently flexible and able to resist great unidirectional tension forces until the wavy pattern of fibres has been straightened out by the pulling force. These collagen fibres are produced by fibroblasts located within the fascia.

It makes total sense to me that working on the bits that hold your whole body together and basically provide it's structures and form. Makes a lot more sense to me than seeing our bodies and mind as a collection of separates parts and then drugging, chopping off, cutting into those bits which displease us. A way of thinking that however you look at it causes pain and makes a lot of money and misery between the joys

It could be down to having had my tonsils removed when I was very small, but the above makes so much sense to me, I feel I understand why I have always felt that I must not have any unnecessary surgeries.