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by Al Irby i JWUIi
THE CHINESE’S METHOD OF “ACUPUNCTURE
ANALGESIA” BAFFLES THE ESTABLISHED WESTERN
MEDICAL PHILOSOPHY. THIS MEDICAL MYSTERY BRINGS
TO MIND THE OLD NEGRO CUSTOMS OF HERB
POULTICES THAT THEY USED IN PLANTATION DAYS TO
ALLEVIATE PAINS. THESE CRUDE PAIN-KILLERS WERE
DEFINITE UNPATHOLOGICAL, BUT YET THEY WORKED.
Acupuncture Analgesia works in Oriental China. Leading
visiting Western medical personnel have acertained this medical
phenomena by films and actual on-the-spot witnessing. The old
Chinese practice of inserting long fine needles into a specific
point in the body to stop pains. Chinese physicians using this
ancient custom free surgeons to manipulate delicate operations.
They perform major operations on the abdomen, chest or head of
a patient and the remarkable thing is that the patient remains
awake and alert.
According to the theory of pain as traditionally taught in
Western Medical Schools, wer don’t know how acupuncture
analgesia works. It can’t be questioned when noted medical men
of the stature of Dr. P.E. Brown, the famed British surgeon,
makes this laudable observation: “My first introduction to this
Oriental medical mystique was during my visit to the Cheng Hwa
Hospital in Shanghai. 1 was taken into the operating theater to see
a man in his mid 30s having part of his lung removed. The man
was fully conscious, and able to talk with me.
“There was only one acupuncture needle, situated over the
right bicep muscle. The needle was two inches long, and was
inserted and manually rotated by the anestetist, who was a
woman. She was rapidly rotating the needle for 10 to 15 seconds,
at intervals of a half minute.” During an acupuncture operation,
the patient remains totally calm and in his right mind. His pulse
and blood pressure hold normal. The surgeon operates as slowly
and deliberately as he chooses to without worrying about drug
levels or side effects.”
The patient loses only a slight amount of blood, and as soon as
the operation is performed the patient sits up in bed. Os course
there is a slight dizziness lasting a few hours after the operation.
Naturally needles are better in many ways over drugs. For
instance, acupuncture hold a bright promise for elderly persons,
otherwise often their hearts are a great problem. In this method is
a blessing for the medical bother-some “phantom-limbs”, pains
suffered by amputees.
The truly important factor in the effectiveness of
acupunture is the stimulation of tissues by twirling the needles.
Dr. E.G. Dimond, a leading American surgeon, observed in
Canton an operation on a man who had non-healing ulcers. The
acupuncturist inserted two needles into each ear. The needles
were connected to a battery. Stimulation of the ear tissues off
a chain of neural signals, that somehow blocked pain while the
man’s abdomen was cut open, and part of the stomach removed.
Western medical people can follow the mechanics of
acupuncture, but they don’t understnad what makes it tick.
Acupuncture baffles Westerners on several major points; by
inserting needles into one part of the body, and producing an
effect in another part of the body.
SOME OF THE OPERATIONAL MOVEMENTS OF
ACUPUNCTURE ARE EQUIVOCAL ACCORDING TO
WESTERN THEORY OF PAIN. IT SIMPLY DOESN’T MAKE
SENSE.
For example, in a thyroid operation in one hospital, an
acupuncturist inserted needles in the neck and the back of the
wrists. In another hospital the acupuncturist inserted a needle one
inch deep into each forearm at a point about four inches above
the wrist. The Western specificity theory maintains that specific
pain receptors in our body relay signals directly to the brain.
The transmission line resembles a simple telephone
switchboard dial with a signal at one end and the bell rings at the
other. Os course this is a Western premise; and our theory
assumes that a person will feel pain precisely where he is
stimulated. But this sequence of reasoning contradicts the
observed effect of acupuncture analgesia.
Still following the philosophy so he advocators of Western
specificity theory, they further assume that the amount of pain
felt depends on the intensity of stimulation. But the Chinese
medical people’s analgesic effects of carefully placed, rapidly
rotating needles show that this is not always so. Acupuncture
needles may initially produce slight pain, yet they also
anesthetize. Occidental Medical Stature has not put together an
explanation for the way the needles block nerve impulses, or why
pain is relieved for hours after the needles are withdrawn.
The surprising thing is why European medicine has not
explored this Oriental phenomena. American Medical personnel
worships the mighty dollar; there is latitude a plenty in our need
of dedicated research. There is a natural reason why American
medical clinical and theoretical standard ranks twenty-third in
world ratings.
A CHINESE EXPLANATION OF THEIR UNIQUE ANALGESIC
The traditional Chinese version of acupuncture is completely
different from specificity theory. YIN AND YANG--The Chinese
theory is that the two universal forces-Yin and Yang-are
biologically present in our bodies in the form of spirits (Yin) and
blood (Yang). The spirits and blood course through the body
along a series of separate channels called meridians.
Acupuncture vital spots lie along the meridians at specific
intersections. There are 365 acupuncture stations along 12
meridians. When Yin and Yang are in discord, the theory
contends pains and diver disease set in. The insertion of needles at
special stations, allow the two forces to come into harmony
again. The history of acupuncture is uncertain, but its results are
sweeping the entire world since America and China have become
friendly.
The Yin-Yang theory is still popular among the peopl’s doctors
going about practicing mercy errands in rural China. Butthe
hard-headed Western World is not satisfied, the theory of the
common people falls too far outside their scientific approach of
established westernized medicine. Acupuncture defies our
infallible theory of specificity by boldly indicating that there are
neurological links between distant body sites.
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BLACK ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE HIGHLIGHTS 100 TOP
BLACK BUSINESSES
The current June edition of Black Enterprise magazine, Earl
Graves, publisher, does the nation a favor as it presents a “first of
its kind” feature on Black economic progress. This edition
highlights Black banks, insurance companies, saving and loan
associations, advertising agencies and a roster of organizations
concerned with the economic growth of Negroes. Dr. Arthur
Burns, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, is also interviewed.
PILGRIM LIFE OF AUGUSTA IS FEATURED
It was good to see Augusta’s Pilgrim Life Insurance Company
featured number eight among some 32 Black insurance
companies. It pointed to Pilgrim’s $85,000,000 insurance in
force, total assests at $14,000,000 and 275 employees for the
year 1972. Its founding date of 1898 gives the company well
deserved senior status in the group.
BLACK ENTERPRISE MAGAZINE HAS GOOD
INFORMATION
Persons who really wish solid information about the status of
Black business affairs and how white firms are entering this lush
fifty-one billion dollar market should subscribe to this magazine
which is located at 295 Madison Avenue, New York City, 10017.
EARL GRAVES FATHERS DAY MESSAGE
Guest columnist today is Earl Graves, publisher and founder of
Black Enterprise, who writes a Father’s Day message to his late
father:
To All Our Fathers
Dear Dad:
If you were here today, I think you would be proud of the
growing accomplishments of an increasing number of black
businessmen, your son included, who have reached what certainly
must be a milestone in achievement in America.
We as black men have arrived at a point in history where we
can identify thousands of black-owned and blade-controlled
businesses-many of them embryonic and still struggling for
survival-that have been and are being established across this
country. Black Enterprise has been able to recognize 100 leading
black service and manufacturing firms as well as 42 insurance
companies, 37 banks and 44 savings and loan associations.
As you know, these accomplishments have come in the face of
massive obstacles that prevented you and other proud men of
your day from reaching your potential. Some of those obstacles
have been overcome, but others remain, maddeningly, as barriers
to real opportunity, frustrating the best efforts of those who
believe that commerce should be open to all. Sadly, racism in our
day, as it was in yours, is a formidable foe.
From time to time, I think of your frequent admonition to get
an education so that we could walk through the door when the
■opportunity came. That was part of the formula, the rest being
that formal education, though necessary, simply equips you for
the real education that is a part of doing business in the free
enterprise system.
If you were sitting across the table from me, I could hear you
say, “Imagine what we could accomplish, not only for our race
but for our country, if the doors were really open.”
Yet, some things have happened. Some of us have become
members of the boards of major corporations. A black man now
serves on the board of the insurance company with which you
once traded. That automobile you could never afford to
buy—well, a black man is now a member of its manufacturer’s
board.
Still, these are humble beginnings. But they are significant.
There has been no time in our history when there have been so
many qualified and qualifiable young black men and women who
will make our list one day.
Our journey of accomplishment will not be over until the gap
is closed between the inequities and the promise of this country,
all men and women have equal access to opportunity in the
marketplace, and the median income of blacks and other
minorities is level with the national median. It will end when the
majority in America understand that impoverishment can be a
state of mind, and not just a physical condition solely assigned to
the “disadvantaged”.
In saluting the nation’s leading black businessmen in this issue,
I’m not unmindful that this month we celebrate Father’s Day. So
we salute you and the other fathers who started us on our way,
for the owners of the companies which appear in this issue honor
not only themselves, but their forebears as well by being here.
Your loving son,
MR. & MRS. HOME OWNER
Do you employ a cook, cleaning woman or other
domestic worker in your home for one or more
days per week? If so, you are paying them more
than fifty dollars per quarter in wages, and you
should be withholding and paying Social Security
contributions for them. Your failure to do this
denies your employee his right to receive Social
Security benefits for themselves and their
dependents in later years. We urge you to obey the
law and help us to improve human relations in the
Augusta Area.
...Human Relations Commission
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BRADLEY VICTORY A MILESTONE
By
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
This country has gotten used to the election of black mayors in
some big cities, but Thomas Bradley’s stunning victory in the Los
Angeles mayoralty race is a landmark in black political
participation.
Bradley’s landslide gave him a margin of about 100,000 votes
over incumbent mayor Sam Yorty. Since blacks make up only
about 16 perenet of the city’s population, that meant white
voters put him over the top.
Politicians wondered whether white voters would cast their
ballots for a black candidate. That was the bit question four years
ago and the answer was NO; Bradley lost that election. This time
around, the same racial innuendos and racist appeals were used in
the campaign against him. He was accused of “black nationalism”
and of harboring radicals who would take over the city. Below
the surface, whispering campaigns brought a lot of people out of
the woodwork who made race, not competence, their key issue.
In the end, Bradley got about half the white vote. In other
cities, black politicians put together a coalition of solid black
support with relatively small white backing, but in Los Angeles,
the white voters came out strong for Bradley. Even if we
recognize that it is dangerous to generalize on the basis of one
election in one city, this has major implications for politics across
the country.
It indicates that, in some major northern cities at least, a
candidate’s race is an inconsequential factor. White voters
rejected racial appeals and demonstrated the divisive campaigns
will backfire. We’ve been treated to a lot of political campaigns
that featured code words and even blatant racist appeals, but Los
Angeles showed that it may not work any more.
Bradley’s election also indicates a new role for black politicans
in the electoral process. This was no hollow victory in a ghost
town that’s been abandoned by the economic powers of a city.
It’s a big, growing, strong city, the third largest in the country,
and its new black mayor will have the support and resources to
make it even better.
This election also points to the importance of building broad
coalitions around issues of community concern. Blacks voted for
Bradley because they felt a black mayor would be more
responsive to their needs, but whites also voted for him because
he raised basic issues and programs about crime, transportation,
the environment, and economic development of interest to he
entire community.
Such broad-based, issue-oriented campaigns transcend racial
factors. White or black, we are all citizens of a community with
common concerns and interests. Bradley understood that,
basically, there is more to unite Angelenos than there was to
divide them. His opponent didn’t understand that and lost.
Tom Bradley brings to Los Angeles a fund of ability and
ompetence that will benefit the city. That’s another factor we
ought to think about today. He came to Los Angeles as a boy;
one of seven children of a Texas sharecropper seeking
opportunity for himself and his family. The Bradleys lived in
poverty and fought their way up the ladder in spite of
- and hardship.
That’s a lesson for this country, in which so many people have
racist notions about black migrants coming north to ihd
hand-outs. They come for better opportunities, and they "
constitute a major human resource, not a burden. Their children
will become mayors, bankers and judges, just as Mr. Bradley’s son
worked his way into the mayor’s office. It’s the American Dream
coming true now for blacks as it has for others. As Tom Bradley
himself has said:
“The American Dream...would really have meaning all over the
country if a black who believed in the system, who worked 4
within the system, who fought and prepared himself for new
opportunities, was able to achieve that kind of victory.”
He did win, and has helped keep alive that elusive American
Dream.
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papers are entitled:
‘‘A Physiological
Plant-Taxonomy Technique
with Special Reference to
Certain Magnoliaceae” (1970)
“A Physiological Approach
to the Yucca-Agave
Controversy” (1971)
“Physiological Technique
Reveals Evidence of
Palingenesis in Platanus
Occidentalis” (1972)
“The Use of Commelina as a
Computer for Detecting
Evolutionary Relationships
between Animals” (1973).