I tried accupuncture last, I should have tried it first. I love how western medicine calls any mechanism it doesn't understand "placebo" (reference to child comment) or "psychosomatic". Acupuncture worked for me after I exhausted everything western medicine had to offer (short of surgery). I had serious injuries (MRI showed this). I had verified radiating nerve pain, tests showed the nerves were innervated (activated) by these injuries to the spine. Acupuncture did what steroids, gabba blockers, physical therapy, et.al. could not.

Western medicine has some amazing things to offer for serious conditions. Its really silly how most other ailments are covered by crap in the drug store. I say crap because after my wife started treating the family with essential oils, and my acupuncturist's herbal remedies I'm sick less often and recover faster. I even avoided having to have my gallbladder removed. On fucking herbs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Do I know why all these organic compounds and odd treatments work? Does that mean they don't? Does it mean it's all psychosomatic? sigh Maybe, just maybe people in the east figured out a system for treating many ailments. Maybe western medicine needs to zoom out from the molecule and start looking at the whole patient.

You want a lesson in the limits of western medicine? Watch your child die slowly of cancer. Losing my daughter disabused me of any fantasies of cures just around the corner. Meanwhile top doctors kept saying "we've never seen this before". Western medicine doesn't have answers for half of what people think it does. This isn't CSI. Humble out. If some herbs and acupuncture can heal people then deal with it.