The one-time effect on your sleep is a lot less mysterious than if had worked more permanently. As a golfer, let me draw your attention to the hole-in-one phenomenon.
This can happen to Joe Schmendrick once.
More than once and you're either Tiger Woods or lying. And even Tiger has not had that many.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former Senator from New York, once took time in a Senate Finance Committee hearing to make your point about health care evidence. He held up the Merck Manual from the turn of the last century (that is circa 1920) and went on to read what it had to say about Cocaine ... all good, BTW.
The whole idea that the mind and body are separate, and that there's some gap to be bridged, is a leftover of Descartes. The detailed mechanisms of accupuncture are not well understood, but they may involve a rebalancing of activity in the generally opposed sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. That would make some sense for sleep.
About 15 years ago I was having lower back problems and I tried something called network chiropractic. Despite the name, there is no cracking involved. It consists of light touches at various pressure points around the spine and neck. I did it for a while and got some relief, but nothing transformative.
But I went to a demonstration where the practitioner had a patient lay down and demonstrate something I think he called the somatic wave. He gave her a few light touches and all of sudden her whole body started vibrating and these high-amplitude waves started going up and down her back. It was the kind of motion you might see from a tiny contortionist at Cirque du Soleil, except this was a middle age, overweight woman -- definitely not a super fit yogi.
The one-time effect on your sleep is a lot less mysterious than if had worked more permanently. As a golfer, let me draw your attention to the hole-in-one phenomenon.
This can happen to Joe Schmendrick once.
More than once and you're either Tiger Woods or lying. And even Tiger has not had that many.
your overall tone sounds very condescending
Agree with everything you said but one more thing to consider.
If it's the placebo effect, why does acupuncture work on dogs with joint issues? Because dogs seem to improve even when owners are skeptical.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former Senator from New York, once took time in a Senate Finance Committee hearing to make your point about health care evidence. He held up the Merck Manual from the turn of the last century (that is circa 1920) and went on to read what it had to say about Cocaine ... all good, BTW.
It wasn't until I became the father of a daughter until I realized.......
Yea. Someone else has something to say. And it isn't "this is total bullshit until I tried it."
As for the placebo effect, at least part of that appears to be classical conditioning.
http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=columns&vol=randall_hayes&article=014
The whole idea that the mind and body are separate, and that there's some gap to be bridged, is a leftover of Descartes. The detailed mechanisms of accupuncture are not well understood, but they may involve a rebalancing of activity in the generally opposed sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. That would make some sense for sleep.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3677642/
Except for pain relief, where it's clear that endorphins are involved.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15135942/
About 15 years ago I was having lower back problems and I tried something called network chiropractic. Despite the name, there is no cracking involved. It consists of light touches at various pressure points around the spine and neck. I did it for a while and got some relief, but nothing transformative.
But I went to a demonstration where the practitioner had a patient lay down and demonstrate something I think he called the somatic wave. He gave her a few light touches and all of sudden her whole body started vibrating and these high-amplitude waves started going up and down her back. It was the kind of motion you might see from a tiny contortionist at Cirque du Soleil, except this was a middle age, overweight woman -- definitely not a super fit yogi.
Made me think.