And my knee is responding well to acupuncture. Again. I hate acupuncture... it works EXTREMELY well, but does not, in any way, shape, or form, conform to my worldview of How Shit Works. "Energy flows" and "pressure points" and fucking meridians and other hocus-pocus bullshit is NOT how this world or life works. It's all just simple chemical and electrical processes that can be broken down and examined. Not "energy flows" and other hokum.

I don't want to be too 'out there' but, as far as I understand, IANAD, we still discover pretty basic things in anatomy and physiology. This paper from 2019 (yar-har!) describes a previously unknown network of capillaries transporting stuff from the bone marrow outside the bone. Maybe acupuncturists lucked out/gathered tremendous amount of data, and use something yet undefined clinically. It's not as outlandish as it sounds, IMO. 120 years ago we still tried detecing aether, 250 we still had remnants of phlogiston theory, and in-between our understanding of electricity evolved from being -- to quote one of my professors -- 'recklessly experimental' to Maxwell's equations. EDIT: And, who knows, maybe in a hundred years someone will shake their head saying the same about us fumbling about dark matter.

I know the argument I bring up here isn't new, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if X years from now someone discovered that, say, trace amounts of whatever they use in those needles activate some biochemical process. For what it's worth, following demure here, I believe in Chinese remedies because it made my childhood motion sickness fade away over a couple of weeks. That, or in a placebo-like fashion, my body suppressed it to as a peace offering: no more puking in cars, but in return you'll stop drinking those awful teas. :P