Surprise! March 5th, 2013

The next day I got a surprise (even though it wasn't a surprise for my dad) from Dr. Song. She was there to give my dad a treatment to boost his immune system while he's on his chemo treatment for stomach cancer. So Dr. Song this would be the perfect time to actually watch her insert the needles. So for an hour I actually stood next to Dr. Song and watched her perform acupuncture on my dad. The first thing we did was feel his pulse on both hands. The reason why was to see which organs in the body is low in chi. If the pulse felt weak, then it meant that the chi in that area was low. After feeling his pulse Dr. Song proceeded to insert two needles in my dad's stomach in the region below his belly button, the purpose of this was to bring his chi to his  dan tian ( I forgot the points, hopefully I'll be able to actually remember this Chinese names). Once she inserted the needles there she put needles in his legs and feet. The reason why she did this was to target the stomach through points that were linked to the stomach and bring the chi to his stomach. On top of this each of these points help with other aspects in life such as stress, weight loss and much more. I had to leave, so i ended up staying with Dr. Song and my dad for an hour.