Thank you for visiting Neely Acupuncture and Herbal Works! Meet your acupuncturist, Ruth Elder Neely, Practitioner of Oriental Medicine, licensed by the Pennsylvania Board of Medicine to practice Oriental Medicine including acupuncture and herbal medicine. Acupuncture has become almost a household word, as people and their friends experience pain relief and improved quality of life using it. Some use only acupuncture, some only herbal; often, they use both. See the rest of this site for answers to some of your questions.
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Modern pharmacology was derived in large part from herbal history. Even today, the basis of 75% of prescription medicine is plants. Aspirin came from willow trees, morphine from poppy seeds, penicillin from fungus, digitalis from foxglove. Approximately one half of the world's people still rely on traditional herbal medicines.
Your first medicine is your food. It is the gas for the body. The body breaks down the food (metabolism) into it's smallest pieces, and these fuel and make up the cells. The cell function depends on the makeup of the cell. What do you want in your cells? The clich - "you are what you eat" sums up this approach perfectly.
Qi: The word most associated with Qi is energy. This is as close as we get in English translation to its meaning. Perhaps the most basic way to explain Qi is to say: living bodies contain Qi. Dead bodies do not. Qi is like the clouds; you know they are there, yet they have little material substance.
In Western Medicine the body is seen as a machine, you try to fix a broken part or take it out. In Chinese Medicine, the body is seen as a garden. If the leaves are wilting or turning brown, you examine the condition of the soil, see if the plant is getting enough water & sun or if the roots are being impinged upon. You donaEt just paint the leaves green!" ~ From the classic book on Chinese Medicine, "Between Heaven and Earth".
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