Friday, 18 April 2025

A practitioner can fix everyone and also heal herself?

Kit Li

I study TCM to serve my purpose of helping people in need and also to help myself and my family.

In April 2021, I was diagnosed by a neurologist with a mature infarct in the right superior cerebellar artery territory. Unfortunately, due to a misdiagnosis at the time of the stroke in November 2020, because I did not receive proper follow-up or treatment, as a result, I have suffered from pain and numbness in my left lower limb. I thought I had to live with it for the rest of my life until I learned about Scalp Acupuncture.

From the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the first six months after a stroke are considered the most crucial time for acupuncture treatment. Unfortunately, I missed this opportunity, until I met my professor, Dr Tian Jun Wang in person and began receiving intensive Scalp acupuncture treatments.

Before studying TCM, I had never heard of Scalp Acupuncture. Nor did I realise how effective it could be, not only for post-stroke syndrome and neurological conditions, but for a wide range of health issues.

For that reason, after my first two years of TCM studies, I also trained as a scalp acupuncturist and became an Academy of Scalp Acupuncture UK (ASA) member in July 2024.

Since then, Scalp Acupuncture has become one of my most essential techniques for treating neurological diseases, such as post-stroke syndrome, anxiety disorders, depression, ADHD, and Autism. I even helped a friend of mine who has been suffering from Tourette syndrome since he was a teenager. The results have been improved; at least the tics have been under control.

This journey has also strengthened my determination to study and practise TCM after everything I had been through. Becoming a Chinese acupuncturist not only allows me to heal others, but also continues to be a path of healing for myself.

References:

Dr Tian Jun Wang: Chinese Acupuncture Ilford, Essex: TJ Acupuncture