KOSA (Korean Orthodox Saahm Acupuncture)

Claims by western medicine

There have been three frequently used claims by western medicine to dispute the effectiveness of acupuncture.

1. Placebo:

This myth can easily be refuted because acupuncture has been effectively used to treat animals like dogs, cats, and horses that obviously will not have any preconceived thoughts about healing.

2. Acupuncture treatment on anywhere on the body would show some effect.:

People used for tests have unique health conditions. Even though the method of insertion and manipulation of needles used for a test was identical every time, the reaction would vary depending on the person. If KOSA was used for the test, the research should have different results because KOSA is standardized and, thus, shows very consistent effects.

3.Acupuncture compared with control treatment for certain diseases have not shown significant findings in favor of acupuncture:

As described in the above, KOSA would have shown significant findings compared to acupuncture.

Even though all the above three claims are officially accepted by western medicine, there are many people seeing acupuncturists and there are even medical physicians, osteopaths, chiropractors and other medical specialists (in some states, there is no specific training required for a medical or osteopathic physician to practice acupuncture) practicing acupuncture.

KOSA in this book will show you that KOSA would show significant findings in comparison to other types of acupuncture.

 Different approach

The migraine is used here as an example to describe the unique approaches of KOSA.

Wikipedia explains migraines as follows.

Migraine is a debilitating condition characterized by moderate to severe headaches, and nausea, about 3 times more common in women than in men. The typical migraine headache is unilateral pain (affecting one half of the head) and pulsating in nature, lasting from 4 to 72 hours; symptoms include nausea, vomiting, photophobia (increased sensitivity to light), phonophobia (increased sensitivity to sound), and is aggravated by routine activity. Approximately one-third of people who suffer from migraine headaches perceive an aura—unusual visual, olfactory, or other sensory experiences that are a sign that the migraine will soon occur. Initial treatment is with analgesics for the headache, an antiemetic for the nausea, and the avoidance of triggering conditions. The cause of migraine headache is unknown; the most common theory is a disorder of the serotonergic control system. Studies of twins indicate a 60 to 65 percent genetic influence upon their propensity to develop migraine headache. Moreover, fluctuating hormone levels indicate a migraine relation: 75 percent of adult patients are women, although migraine affects approximately equal numbers of prepubescent boys and girls; propensity to migraine headache is known to disappear during pregnancy, although in some women migraines may become more frequent during pregnancy.

The cause of a migraine headache is unknown in western medicine. In KOSA, a migraine is usually directly related to the gallbladder (usually a hotter gallbladder than normal).

“In western medicine, the treatment is initially with analgesics for the headache, an antiemetic for the nausea, and the avoidance of triggering conditions in western medicine and its success rate is not satisfactory.” (Continued the abstract from Wikipedia)

Contrary to western medicine, the cause is usually known with KOSA. The gallbladder is hotter than normal. Therefore it is necessary to bring the gallbladder temperature down to normal which will lead to a healthier gallbladder, in turn relieving the migraine.

As KOSA's theory is theoretical and effective, the benefits of KOSA would be not only treating migraine but also treating most of the other problems caused by a hot gallbladder.

It would be a very interesting subject for a scientist to study the relationship between the gallbladder's temperature and migraine occurances.

With frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis) the arm’s mobility has been limited. By KOSA theory, frozen shoulders are caused by unhealthy organs like the liver, lung, large intestine, and/or small intestine and making those organs healthy should treat this problem.

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