(May 11, 2018 at 12:48 pm)paulpablo Wrote: This is like a double barrel thread for 2 things I've been considering buying/doing recently that I've heard good things about.
First of all is CBD oil, it's cannabis oil that's supposed to be good for inflammation and anxiety and various other vague things.
Secondly there's acupuncture. Someone in work recommended this to me but he didn't help his case by also believing in a million odd conspiracy theories about weather control devices and ancient Egyptian technology. But more recently an ex army guy has joined out workplace and recommended acupuncture to me, he said the military actually paid for him to have it after he was running along a hill and got his leg stuck in a hole and injured his knee. He said his leg has been great ever since the acupuncture.
So my question is does anyone have experience with these things?
Yes. Ex-wife swears by it.
I am not prepared to say acupuncture has no clinical effect at all. But the effect is unlikely to be clinically dramatic, otherwise it would be easily studied. The placebo effect is definitely dominant. Amongst the practitioners my ex-wife saw, It appears the more ridiculous the Mumbai jumbo that the acupuncturist spews, the higher the esteem of his patients. If that is not evidence of placebo effect I don’t know what is.
