Rick JervisA migrant receive acupuncture treatment from volunteers with Acupuncturists Without Borders.MATAMOROS, Mexico – For months, Carlos Lopez’s mind has been endlessly spinning with the fears and anxiety of leaving his home country of Honduras, traveling 1,700 miles with his 13-year-old son to this Mexican border town and the day-to-day survival of living in a squalid tent city.
The acupuncturists use a five-point protocol known as NADA, where five needles are stuck in specific points in the ear to reduce stress. The group has helped hundreds of migrants in Mexican border camps this year, said Diana Fried, AWB’s founder and co-executive director. For migrants who don’t want the needles, there are tiny Chinese radish seeds that can be adhered to the ear, to similar effect.
Hundreds of tents, many of them donated by volunteers, sprouted to house the migrants, creating a sprawling, tent city. Volunteers with groups like Team Brownsville and Angry Tias and Abuelas cross over nearly daily, handing out food and supplies such as blankets, sweaters, diapers and baby formula. Small children play in the dirt or splash around in the nearby muddy Rio Grande, as women cook beans in homemade earthen hearths.
Migrants receive acupuncture treatment from volunteers with Acupuncturists Without Borders inside the migrant camp in Matamoros, Tamaulipas along the U.S border.Once here, migrants also face greater obstacles than ever to remain in the U.S. and lack of access to mental health services, Vignarajah said.
Fried, 61, who got into acupuncture as a way of quitting a 20-year smoking habit, started AWB by taking a group of fellow volunteer acupuncturists down to New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005. Camped out in a FEMA tent city in Algiers, across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, they treated residents, first responders, roofers, construction workers and federal officials – more than 8,000 people in the course of a year.
During a training session last year in Austin, a local acupuncturist suggested treating migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. The group began treating migrants there in January. “She just explained it could release stress, and I said, ‘Good God, yes!’” Candia said. “It was such a relief, I just started crying. To have someone reach out and offer relief.”
He looks so relaxed
If acupuncture ends thoughts of migrating to the USA, let's send as many acupuncturists to Central America as we can (I am sure there is millions of them in China).
Otto Muth.
Placebo effect
Acupuncture for mental wellness?
And by the looks of that picture, we can deduct that unexplained anxiety, was replaced by anxiety to get his ears poked to crap!
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