Rejuvenating Pricks

………..today I did acupunture for the first time……….. at Rumah Shakti Bhakti Mulia, I did not know that acupuncture in Indonesia is treated so seriously that it is a part of the main hospital treatments. When I spoke to the doctor on the phone I thought I was going to her office/clinic till I reached this hospital !!! The doctor, a very pleasant lady in her mid or late forties, asked me if i had any health problems, i asked her to check my pulse and she said None. I told her I just wanted to try acupuncture from an academic point of view and see how it works and what it does ?

She told me a lot of a lot of people also come for loosing weight and for maintaining youthfulness and freshness in the face....wheras people also come for medical treatments after stroke and paralysis .

So to start with she recommended me to do it on the face, I said ok ……she put two needle on the point between my thumb and index finger and then two on the sides of my knee and some needles on my face….i think 7-8 and then she connected the ones on the hand and leg to some machine where a very minor electrical charge passed through it….i just felt very minor tingling…and then nothing…the whole process lasted for some 20 minute and she said I must complete a course of 10 for best results……..

While I was lying down with needles pinched into me …the doctor very patiently and pleasantly answered all my questions …she said acupuncture is very effective, especially when it comes to health maintenance….in loosing weight also it helps in increasing inches more than weight……she said it is done for medical purposes also for stroke, heart problem, facial paralysis and so on…

I asked her if Totok is more effective or Acupuncture, she said the principal used in both which is the points are the same, in totok its pressure and in acupuncture its needles………..

I guess – I will complete the 10 sessions !!!