With Acupuncture Therapy Alone

Jo Ok Son, a doctor in charge of households at the Okryu Polyclinic in Taedonggang District, Pyongyang, has made achievements in treating obstinate diseases with traditional Koryo therapy.

She uses acupuncture as the main means of treatment.

After graduating from Pyongyang University of Medical Sciences, she was attracted to the acupuncture therapy as she saw famous doctors treating not only digestive and respiratory diseases but also paraplegia.

In order to produce a more pronounced therapeutic effect, she identified acupuncture points according to the symptoms of diseases, and the method, depth, angle and time of needling.

In the course of this, she became able to treat many diseases of various systems and even refractory diseases with acupuncture therapy.

She treated a patient who had been bedridden with lumbar disc herniation, recovering him in five days. And after seven days of treatment she cured a patient with spondylolisthesis and a young man who had been suffering from numb hands and feet and serious shoulder pain caused by cervical spondylosis and thoracic vertebral deformity.

Among those who benefitted from her therapy are the patients who almost gave up their lives due to pamplegia or paraplegia and children who were unable to walk or sit because of congenital disorders.

Her experience was presented at the 18th national symposium of health workers on experience of devoted service held last year and was later introduced widely through publications.

She also invented a walker for the patients with leg paralysis. The apparatus took first place at the 37th National Sci-tech Festival and other events.