Editorial JCM 132

Everyone knows acupuncture works for pain … Don’t they? It probably seems obvious to us as practitioners - at least from the evidence in our clinics, which echo daily with sighs of relief as our needles, cups, lancets and hands help move painful stasis from patients’ channels. On a personal note, I recently ‘did my back in’ royally after (unwisely) swimming in a freezing cold North Sea before sitting in motorway traffic for three hours and then unloading a car full of luggage and a windsurfer. Boy, was I glad of Yaotongxue, Linggu, Dabai, a liberal dousing of Evil Bone Water and a moxa heat pad on that day.