by Jason Huang Patients suffering from pain usually turn to the drug store for painkillers to relieve their symptoms. However, this is not the best way of eradicating pain. In fact, the causes of pain are complicated and are difficult to resolve solely by painkillers. Recently, an alternative therapy has been developed in Japan and Taiwan called ENRAC (遠道穴位經絡療法); it is a much more effective way to alleviate pain. ENRAC was founded in Japan by Dr. Shang Zi Ko (柯尚志醫師) in 2002 and was soon introduced to Taiwan. Dr. Ko was initially an anesthesiologist in Japan. He often questioned the meaning of being a doctor after seeing so many cancer cases that western therapy could not cope with. One day, an old woman in the last stage of liver cancer came and pleaded with him to help ease her pain. Realizing that using narcotics or painkillers was not the correct way of curing her, Dr. Ko incorporated the concepts of Chinese acupuncture with those of “regeneration of the wuxing” (五行相生相剋) in the I Ching (易經), and developed ENRAC or Collateral Meridian Therapy. ENRAC has four significant features that make it different from traditional therapies: no drugs, no side-effects, no needles, and no massage at the pain site. ENRAC treats patients in a physiological way. No medicine is needed; thus no related side-effects are associated. Aimed at ridding the pain, ENRAC doesn’t treat the pain site directly; instead, it works on the corresponding meridian away from the diseased meridian. This part resembles Chinese acupuncture, but ENRAC is non-invasive. Unlike acupuncture, it uses rods or bare hands to apply compression instead of poking needles into the body. Dr. Ko believes that pain occurs whenever body parts are congested and thus the balance of qi (氣) is destroyed. The congested source needs to be dispersed via healthy meridians, instead of the one that is blocked. According to Dr. Ko, “we humans are like trees, with the spinal cord as the trunk, our nervous system as the branches, and the other terminal body parts like flowers and leaves. If a diseased tree needs curing, we begin with the trunk along with its living environment to regain its originally natural state.” According to the theory, ENRAC can resolve all functional problems, excluding anatomical abnormalities, from pain to immune system diseases. As more and more health problems arose, Dr. Ko decided to dedicate himself to promoting and popularizing ENRAC among the medical community, to comfort patients who suffer from diseases. He started classes in Japan and Taiwan to educate doctors in a top-down approach. Due to physician specialty and subspecialty training, it turned out not very effective since the majority of doctors were not widely convinced of the effects of ENRAC medicine. Books were then published to introduce ENRAC to the public, which was a bottom-up approach, in hopes of enlightening those plagued with diseases. One vivid and convincing example is the recovery of Alzheimer’s disease in my Western medicine soon encounters its limits because it is not an integrative method and does not treat the human body as a whole. Diseases today have become complicated and very inter-related with different factors and organs. It is difficult to solve these problems superficially. In fact, the rule of thumb of being healthy is to maintain the balance of our bodies. ENRAC provides a moderate and self-healing way to help the body regain its health. If you feel pain, which may be a warning sign of disease, try out ENRAC to kill that pain in the long run!
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