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The miracle of the needles

HUGH writes: In 1976, I was a veterinary student at Texas A&M.
I had dropped out of vet school at the end of my first semester due to the horrible ways animals were treated in wet lab experiments. After serious soul-searching, though, I decided to go back to school and to try to fight for change.
On my first day back, I was invited to attend a lecture on acupuncture by Dr McMullen of the Equine Club. Afterwards, he invited us to participate in his first acupuncture case. So I went to the equine barn and signed up as McMullen's assistant.
The horse being treated had unilateral facial paralysis, which was considered incurable. The left side of his face had been paralysed for over nine months - the left eyelid was sagging, the left ear flopped over to the left, and the horse's lips were flaccid and drooling - while the right side was normal. McMullen treated him with electric stimulation on facial acu-points, three times per week but we could see no improvement. One day, he asked me to treat the horse with a herb called moxa. I had to put it on the end of the needle, light it, let it burn until it was ash, then treat the acu-points. The moxa smelled like marijuana and almost every teacher in the large animal complex came to see what was going on.
They told me I would be expelled but I managed to finish the treatment. I could not sleep that night and went to school at 5 am to visit the horse. His paralysis was 100% healed - and the treatment viewed as a medical miracle.
McMullen told me that he had asked me to treat the horse because he was not a tenured professor and he thought the moxa would be hard for the other doctors to handle.

To date, I have treated over 20 000 animals in my vet practice and witnessed many miracle healings.