That's pretty cool your brother can do acupuncture sunflower. I have always really wanted to try this acupuncture - after these reports even more so. I want to see if this energy is like anything I have experienced before. We are all electrical in nature. Given everything in this world vibrates at certain frequencies, and energy healing is popular now, it makes one wonder how that all works. To me, all healing is in the mind. The body is an instrument, like a pencil, and can only do as the mind directs. Of itself, it can do nothing. However, it seems it can be overwhelmed by toxins like mercury. Remove the toxins, and the body will be healed if the mind accepts healing. Maybe the acupuncture helps release the energy that mercury has blocked?

Sunshine: About the back stuff and mercury, I was thinking as SoSick was, and thinking of the sheep and monkey studies. In those, and in someone's comments I read somewhere, mercury tends to settle in the pelvic region. Seems to make sense. My thought is that maybe the way to overcome this is strength training, starting with no weights at all, and building up very slowly, over weeks, by doing back building exercises like dead lifts. This worked wonders for me when I hurt my back playing basketball in high school. The problem went away after a month or two, never to return. Just my opinion, you might want to ask a chiropractor, or sports injury doctor.

TW