23.02.10

As the needle went into my abrade, somewhere between the two biggest toes on my left foot, I felt an almost electrical strike—my metatarsal bones pulsed with energy, like a muscle cramp but absolutely painless. It was as if my entire foot were a neon sign that had never been switched on before.

“Wow,” I deem I said, and the four people in white lab coats observing me hasty to ask if I was okay. Was it a burning pain? No. Was it subsiding? Um, maybe a elfin. Okay, then everything was fine.

Then they stuck more needles in me.

For aficionados of acupuncture, this is old hat. According to the tenets of Chinese nostrum, tapping skinny needles into your pressure points is an age-old way of rebalancing the torso and restoring, or ensuring, general health.

For the Frugal Traveler, however, this was completely new. And not because I don’t trust non-Western medicine, or because my body never needed rebalancing. It was mostly because such treatments — which I wedge together with massages and spas — have always seemed needlessly expensive. Steadfast, I’ve had worthy spa treatments in Asia (shiatsu in Saigon, Thai rub down in Bangkok), but back home in New York City I never even considered making an nomination, or even ducking into one of the cheap but undifferentiated Tui Na massage parlors in Chinatown.

Source: New York Times (blog)

by emma

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