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Acupuncture Ambassadors
Acupuncture Ambassadors
A proposed 501C3
Mission Statement
“To contribute to the medical care options of disadvantaged peoples worldwide through the teaching and application of Acupuncture. Our Acupuncture Ambassadors, individual volunteer licensed acupuncture practitioners, do this by sharing knowledge with local medical practitioners, doctors, nurses, and medical assistants in developing countries, imparting basic theoretical and practical training in acupuncture to treat the most common illnesses faced by these medical practitioners.
In keeping with a time honored Japanese tradition of Acupuncture schools for the blind, Acupuncture Ambassadors will also train people afflicted with blindness in the theory and practical knowledge of Acupuncture to increase the vocational options of these individuals.
To this end our Acupuncture Ambassadors will spread the knowledge and value of Traditional Asian Medicine as a powerful, viable, cost effective and timeless healthcare modality throughout developing nations in the 21st century.”
Why Acupuncture?
Worldwide research studies conclude that the positive health benefits of Acupuncture are both curative and preventive. The renowned United Nation's based World Health Organization (WHO) lists more than 40 conditions for which acupuncture is a useful treatment, including immunity-compromised patients such as those with HIV/AIDS. With ever-increasing conflicts in the world, there are also many victims of war and refugees who are suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression. Scientific Research shows that Acupuncture can help in these areas.
Health care practitioners (doctors, nurses, medical assistants) trained in acupuncture are much more self-reliant having a “new” set of tools to use in conjunction with allopathic medicine. A series of acupuncture protocols exist that can be initiated in emergency situations where conventional life-saving equipment may not be available will also be taught.
Acupuncture affords significant savings in medicines, which in these developing nations are often expensive and not readily available. Also the preventive qualities of Acupuncture treatments permits significant savings in drugs and medical procedures.
Humanitarian assistance through acupuncture is also inexpensive, since the total cost, paid by Acupuncture Ambassadors, is essentially limited to the following:
• air and ground transportation costs, food and lodging expenses for the volunteer practitioners/diplomats
• teaching supply costs
• costs for acupuncture supplies.
The teaching of Acupuncture to the blind.
Blind acupuncture is a nationally recognized practice that has openly existed in Japan since the early Edo Period (1603-1867). Currently, 30 percent of the roughly 90,000 licensed acupuncturists in Japan are blind. These visually challenged are found nationwide mixed among the sighted at clinics and hospitals, carrying out private practices, and passing on their skills to others like themselves in special schools for the blind. They hold the same licenses, earn the same wages, and charge the same fees. They even have Zenshinshikai, a national association for blind acupuncturists, to set future agendas and provide a buffer against possible discrimination.
The opportunity to learn viable medical skills, gain a meaningful vocation and a means to financial freedom for the sight impaired in developing countries is great.
A proposed 501C3
Mission Statement
“To contribute to the medical care options of disadvantaged peoples worldwide through the teaching and application of Acupuncture. Our Acupuncture Ambassadors, individual volunteer licensed acupuncture practitioners, do this by sharing knowledge with local medical practitioners, doctors, nurses, and medical assistants in developing countries, imparting basic theoretical and practical training in acupuncture to treat the most common illnesses faced by these medical practitioners.
In keeping with a time honored Japanese tradition of Acupuncture schools for the blind, Acupuncture Ambassadors will also train people afflicted with blindness in the theory and practical knowledge of Acupuncture to increase the vocational options of these individuals.
To this end our Acupuncture Ambassadors will spread the knowledge and value of Traditional Asian Medicine as a powerful, viable, cost effective and timeless healthcare modality throughout developing nations in the 21st century.”
Why Acupuncture?
Worldwide research studies conclude that the positive health benefits of Acupuncture are both curative and preventive. The renowned United Nation's based World Health Organization (WHO) lists more than 40 conditions for which acupuncture is a useful treatment, including immunity-compromised patients such as those with HIV/AIDS. With ever-increasing conflicts in the world, there are also many victims of war and refugees who are suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression. Scientific Research shows that Acupuncture can help in these areas.
Health care practitioners (doctors, nurses, medical assistants) trained in acupuncture are much more self-reliant having a “new” set of tools to use in conjunction with allopathic medicine. A series of acupuncture protocols exist that can be initiated in emergency situations where conventional life-saving equipment may not be available will also be taught.
Acupuncture affords significant savings in medicines, which in these developing nations are often expensive and not readily available. Also the preventive qualities of Acupuncture treatments permits significant savings in drugs and medical procedures.
Humanitarian assistance through acupuncture is also inexpensive, since the total cost, paid by Acupuncture Ambassadors, is essentially limited to the following:
• air and ground transportation costs, food and lodging expenses for the volunteer practitioners/diplomats
• teaching supply costs
• costs for acupuncture supplies.
The teaching of Acupuncture to the blind.
Blind acupuncture is a nationally recognized practice that has openly existed in Japan since the early Edo Period (1603-1867). Currently, 30 percent of the roughly 90,000 licensed acupuncturists in Japan are blind. These visually challenged are found nationwide mixed among the sighted at clinics and hospitals, carrying out private practices, and passing on their skills to others like themselves in special schools for the blind. They hold the same licenses, earn the same wages, and charge the same fees. They even have Zenshinshikai, a national association for blind acupuncturists, to set future agendas and provide a buffer against possible discrimination.
The opportunity to learn viable medical skills, gain a meaningful vocation and a means to financial freedom for the sight impaired in developing countries is great.
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