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SEGMENT A
Fade In A 00 D SOUND FULL-SYNC NORTHVILLE MIC H
Acupuncture Demonshystration C U s
-DR MANN
Now she is telling me she has a feeling of tingling so
that means we are in the right spot were at the nerve
08 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER
ADAm
Tmt such a small almost infinitesimal thing as a needle
is capable of improving the function of ones liver or
small intestine or even relieve the pain of rheumatism
seems incredible There is no explainable reasonmhin
our existing framework of physiological understanding
such a phenomenon as a needle pricked into the skin
should provide analgesic effect--killing one of mans
oldest maladies -pain Because there seems to be no
logical explanation we tend to dismiSS it as impossible
Dr Felix Mann a London PhYSician writes A process
that produces results but the principles of which we do
not yet understand is apt to be labelled as magic bull
once it is understood we call it science This very
well could be a Western definition of the ancient Chinese
art of healing knuwn as Acupuncture
101 D SOUND FULL-PRESENCE
Slow Dissolve to B 104 D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC
Chinese nature footage 108 C SOUND HI LL-ADAffi
To the Chinese who have based their medical practice
Dissolve to A 115 on nature the 5000 year old technique of Acupuncture
is as natural as heaven and earth In ancient Chinese
thought harmony was regarded as a cosmic field of force
in which the Yin and the Yang are in accord with one
Dissolve to B 126 another And in the human body Yin yielding negative ------~--~~-----------------------acupuncture doll
forces and the Yang yielding positive forces went into
the make-up of Chi (Qi the energy of life) which flows
through channels inthe body called me ridians The
lEalth of the body therefore depended upon the unimpeded
flow of this force bullbull a blockage of Chi (Qi) because of an
excess of either Yin or Yang energy in the meridians
Dissolve to A 151 restited in disease It was the job of the acupuncturist a-c-up--u-n-c~tu-r-e--ch~a-rt~~-----------------------------
to even out the forces of Yin and Yang--with his needles
placed at des ignated points on the body this would be
brought about and an even flow of Chi (Qi) would resume
Dissolve to B 205 and the ailment would desist BampW Photo-Chinese Acupuncture
Although the teclmique of acupuncture has become more
sophisticated today in China because of its us e as
anesthetic for surgery the principles of traditional
Dissolve to A Streets in China
218 acupuncture remain basically unchanged Since President
Nixons door-opening visit to China in 1972 many physician
inthe United States have either seen or heard the sucesses
that the Chinese have had with Acupuncture both as an
Dissolve to B 232 analgesic and anesthetic Their training as scimtific D~r--a~t~B=I~a-c~kb-oa-r-d~----------------~--------------~
Dissolve to A Acupuncture Demo
mmiddotinded physicians tells them that it is tied into hypnosis
or black magic but for many physicial s their intuitive
sense tells them that there has to be a margin of truth
244 im itsomewhere
No one not even the Chinese understand why acupuncture
works if indeed it does at all There are theories
based on some scientific findings related to the complicashy
ted nerve network known as the autonomic nervous system
bullbullbull but these are only theories which are not thoroughly
conclusive The Federal Government through the auspices
of the National Institute of Health in Washington is
encouraging medical teams who are interested in studying
the mechanisms involved in acupuncture to apply for a
grant It is the hope of NIH that through extensive
research they might be able to unlock the mysteries
of acupuncture and bring it clearly under the preview
of medicine
MATTE MONTAGE 324 In this report we will examine the works of 2 experimental
MATTE TITLE 334
teams currently involved insuch researchbullbullbull in an
attempt to answer the question whether Acupuncture bull
is Medicine 0 bull or Magicbullbullbullbull
337 C SOUND OUTD SOUND FULL
FADE TO BLACK 340 ALL SOUND OUT
END SEGMENT A
SEGMENT B
Fade in A Acupuncture charts in window
00
01
D SOUND UNDER (STREET PRESENCE)
C SOO ND FULL-ADA RD SOUND CONTd UNDER
Much of the middotreal discussion about acupuncture within
U S medical circles had been treated very lightly until
the autumn of 1971 At that tinE 4 of the nations most
prominent physicians were invited by the Peoples
Republic of China and the All-China Medical Association
to witness and discuss Qlinese Medicine Among those
20 _ CHANGE PRESENCE ON D SOUND (From street to E D White
honored with the invitation was Dr Paul Dudley White
of the Massachussetts General Hospital and former
pe rsonal physician to President Dwight D Eisenhower
Dr White who ranks as a patriarch of world medicine
expressed his thoughts about acupuncture and what he had
personally witnessed in Chinabullbullbull
38 D SOUND OUT e SOUND FULL-DR WHITE
DR WHITE
When we went to China uh accidentally the last day we
were there having seeing very important developments
in public health which excited us very much there was
an observation the last day we were there but wed like
to show you something interesting if you want to see some
acupuncture and acupuncture anesthesia Two of the
patients that we saw with major surgery were especially
interesting one was the patient who was having a lobe of
the lung removed by a fellow surgeon - he was a surgeon
himself who was having the lobe of the lung thorasic surshy
geon And his friend was taking out this lobe butmiddothe had
nothing done to the other side he was breathing normally
while the ope ration was being done which has surprised
surgeons thorasic surgeons when I came back here
because this is not the technique over here they have to
support the other lung to mak3 it sure that its going to
be working properly But there there was no effort none
not needed And then one of the other cases that we saw
especially that I talked with with whom I talked with the
patient oldlady middle aged lady having brain tumor
explored and I was talking to her when she was in no
pain while her skull was being entered Then they were
able at the end of the operation to sometimes if there
was a theradectomy to jump off the table as we saw
several patients and walk back to their hospital room
And they were able to if they hadnt had any gastrointestishy
nal operation they would be able to eat very soon aftershy
wards It seemed a much better technique if it could
be done over here than our way of doing surgery which
was its complications which are apparently more numershy
ous
238 C SOUND CONTd -ADAffiD SOUND UNDER-MGH DEMO 1
ADAm
At Massachussets General Hospital in Boston members
of the Department of Anesthesiology think that Acupunctur t
should not be dismissed out of hand without further
data to bakc up opinion With an attitude of healthy
skeptiCism the MGH team is conducting a series of
experiments which will induce pain into healthy physician
volunteers and under a controlled situation test their
reactions to the teclmique of acupuncture bullbull
C SOUND FULL AND D SOUND CONTd UNDER
DR SMITH
Our aim will be very specific o It will be to find out
initially whether or not a particular kind of experinTentallJ
induced pain can be surpressed by acupuncture and how
that effectiveness of acupuncture compares with standard
techniques for alleviating pain like adm inistrating
_D_is_s_o_lv_e_to_B______3__2_7___m_o_rplo-h_in_ebullbullAnd if we find that acupuncture is
327 D SOUND OUT
Matte Dr Smith 328 successful in that sense with this highly specific kind
of investigation then wel1 move into other questions such
as whether or not acupuncture is effective for certain
kinds of pain and not for other kinds of pain whether
individuals with certain personality characteristics can
derive relief of pain from acupuncture whereas persons
with different personality characteristics cannot For
instance whether or not the suggestability or the hypnotisa
bUity of thepatient is influential in determining whether
or not he can get relief of pain from acupuncture Uh
questions of whether or not variations in the acupuncture
teclmique are important in determining its effectiveness
DR KlTZ
Using this technique we can reproduce the same pain
sequence uh over and over again so the patient can then
serve as his own control Now as long as the teclmique
is reproduceble then we can have confidence in atteJllpting
to modify it on a very valid way and we can do that by
giving thepatient morphine or aspirin or a tranquilizer or ~
plycebal or acupuncture and we 11 then see how it
modifies the uh type of pain that is produced
DR OWENS
Put it at about I and a half zero 2 zeroes o
DR SMITH
You feel one now
DR OWENS
No half
Fast Dissolve to A 502 C CONTd FULL
MATTE Dr 0 Kitz 504
5 44
DR KITZ
Well acupuncture presumably to relieve pain and shy
therefore falls under the province of what we would
describe as anesthesiology But to Western medicine it
is a new teclmique a new method and its my opinion
therefore that it IRs to be evaluated like any other new
drug or new technique and to our way of thinking that
has yet to be done We have noevidence that reproduceabl
quantitable evidence that it is anything more than plecebo
effect perhaps hypnosis or perhaps something elite
And thats really what were attempting to do
C SOUND CONTd -ACUPUNCTURE DEMO-MGH
DR SMITH
Our plan is to allow him to go to moderately distressing
or very distressing pain somewhere between level 2 or
level 3 and then begin the acupuncture and attempt with
the acupuncture to bring the pain back down the pain scale
603 C SOUND CONrd FULLD SOUNDIN UNDER-MGH DE MO
DR CHAING
Basically acupuncture is to insert a particular needle
into some point on the body to produce a kind of a counter
agitating effect to prevent th epain sensation And the
technique itself is not difficult the difficult is to lmow how
to do it If somebody didnt have any experience and you
arbitrary insert a needle in any point can produce some
kind of significant side effect Thats why we take special
precaution try to get some good foundation background
then we can apply it
648 D SOUND PRESENCE GOES OUT
- DR SMITH
If it were irrelevent as to where the needles went in if no
matter where the needles went in we got a positive effect J
a reduction in pain then it would be reasonable to believe
M-344JSeg B
Fast Dissolve to B Dr Smith on Camera
Page II
that the explanation of the pain relief lies some where it
the domain of psychology 0
DR SMITH
Whats the pain level now
DR OWENS
Its 2~
DR SMITH
Two and a half that puts it between mode rate1y distressin
and very distressing and at this point we have 3 or 4
needles in the right arm and as soon as thats finished
Drbull Chaing will put 3 or 4 in the left arm and what we foun
with Dr Owens in the past is tlRt 3 or 4 minutes after
insertion of the final needle there begin to be a reduction
743 in his subjective level of pain Ihe individual who turns
this kind of uh uh Wi 0 who who asks for this kind of
help is often an individual who has exhausted other possibi
lities And that individual has a tremendous need to bel~
that w1rat is being done will be beneficial And in our in
our investigations we will eliminate that possible source
of misunderstanding of what is happening
DR KITZ
Uh in addition to reports and the use of acupuncture in
the llse- of treating pain and also for general anesthesia
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
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END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
101 D SOUND FULL-PRESENCE
Slow Dissolve to B 104 D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC
Chinese nature footage 108 C SOUND HI LL-ADAffi
To the Chinese who have based their medical practice
Dissolve to A 115 on nature the 5000 year old technique of Acupuncture
is as natural as heaven and earth In ancient Chinese
thought harmony was regarded as a cosmic field of force
in which the Yin and the Yang are in accord with one
Dissolve to B 126 another And in the human body Yin yielding negative ------~--~~-----------------------acupuncture doll
forces and the Yang yielding positive forces went into
the make-up of Chi (Qi the energy of life) which flows
through channels inthe body called me ridians The
lEalth of the body therefore depended upon the unimpeded
flow of this force bullbull a blockage of Chi (Qi) because of an
excess of either Yin or Yang energy in the meridians
Dissolve to A 151 restited in disease It was the job of the acupuncturist a-c-up--u-n-c~tu-r-e--ch~a-rt~~-----------------------------
to even out the forces of Yin and Yang--with his needles
placed at des ignated points on the body this would be
brought about and an even flow of Chi (Qi) would resume
Dissolve to B 205 and the ailment would desist BampW Photo-Chinese Acupuncture
Although the teclmique of acupuncture has become more
sophisticated today in China because of its us e as
anesthetic for surgery the principles of traditional
Dissolve to A Streets in China
218 acupuncture remain basically unchanged Since President
Nixons door-opening visit to China in 1972 many physician
inthe United States have either seen or heard the sucesses
that the Chinese have had with Acupuncture both as an
Dissolve to B 232 analgesic and anesthetic Their training as scimtific D~r--a~t~B=I~a-c~kb-oa-r-d~----------------~--------------~
Dissolve to A Acupuncture Demo
mmiddotinded physicians tells them that it is tied into hypnosis
or black magic but for many physicial s their intuitive
sense tells them that there has to be a margin of truth
244 im itsomewhere
No one not even the Chinese understand why acupuncture
works if indeed it does at all There are theories
based on some scientific findings related to the complicashy
ted nerve network known as the autonomic nervous system
bullbullbull but these are only theories which are not thoroughly
conclusive The Federal Government through the auspices
of the National Institute of Health in Washington is
encouraging medical teams who are interested in studying
the mechanisms involved in acupuncture to apply for a
grant It is the hope of NIH that through extensive
research they might be able to unlock the mysteries
of acupuncture and bring it clearly under the preview
of medicine
MATTE MONTAGE 324 In this report we will examine the works of 2 experimental
MATTE TITLE 334
teams currently involved insuch researchbullbullbull in an
attempt to answer the question whether Acupuncture bull
is Medicine 0 bull or Magicbullbullbullbull
337 C SOUND OUTD SOUND FULL
FADE TO BLACK 340 ALL SOUND OUT
END SEGMENT A
SEGMENT B
Fade in A Acupuncture charts in window
00
01
D SOUND UNDER (STREET PRESENCE)
C SOO ND FULL-ADA RD SOUND CONTd UNDER
Much of the middotreal discussion about acupuncture within
U S medical circles had been treated very lightly until
the autumn of 1971 At that tinE 4 of the nations most
prominent physicians were invited by the Peoples
Republic of China and the All-China Medical Association
to witness and discuss Qlinese Medicine Among those
20 _ CHANGE PRESENCE ON D SOUND (From street to E D White
honored with the invitation was Dr Paul Dudley White
of the Massachussetts General Hospital and former
pe rsonal physician to President Dwight D Eisenhower
Dr White who ranks as a patriarch of world medicine
expressed his thoughts about acupuncture and what he had
personally witnessed in Chinabullbullbull
38 D SOUND OUT e SOUND FULL-DR WHITE
DR WHITE
When we went to China uh accidentally the last day we
were there having seeing very important developments
in public health which excited us very much there was
an observation the last day we were there but wed like
to show you something interesting if you want to see some
acupuncture and acupuncture anesthesia Two of the
patients that we saw with major surgery were especially
interesting one was the patient who was having a lobe of
the lung removed by a fellow surgeon - he was a surgeon
himself who was having the lobe of the lung thorasic surshy
geon And his friend was taking out this lobe butmiddothe had
nothing done to the other side he was breathing normally
while the ope ration was being done which has surprised
surgeons thorasic surgeons when I came back here
because this is not the technique over here they have to
support the other lung to mak3 it sure that its going to
be working properly But there there was no effort none
not needed And then one of the other cases that we saw
especially that I talked with with whom I talked with the
patient oldlady middle aged lady having brain tumor
explored and I was talking to her when she was in no
pain while her skull was being entered Then they were
able at the end of the operation to sometimes if there
was a theradectomy to jump off the table as we saw
several patients and walk back to their hospital room
And they were able to if they hadnt had any gastrointestishy
nal operation they would be able to eat very soon aftershy
wards It seemed a much better technique if it could
be done over here than our way of doing surgery which
was its complications which are apparently more numershy
ous
238 C SOUND CONTd -ADAffiD SOUND UNDER-MGH DEMO 1
ADAm
At Massachussets General Hospital in Boston members
of the Department of Anesthesiology think that Acupunctur t
should not be dismissed out of hand without further
data to bakc up opinion With an attitude of healthy
skeptiCism the MGH team is conducting a series of
experiments which will induce pain into healthy physician
volunteers and under a controlled situation test their
reactions to the teclmique of acupuncture bullbull
C SOUND FULL AND D SOUND CONTd UNDER
DR SMITH
Our aim will be very specific o It will be to find out
initially whether or not a particular kind of experinTentallJ
induced pain can be surpressed by acupuncture and how
that effectiveness of acupuncture compares with standard
techniques for alleviating pain like adm inistrating
_D_is_s_o_lv_e_to_B______3__2_7___m_o_rplo-h_in_ebullbullAnd if we find that acupuncture is
327 D SOUND OUT
Matte Dr Smith 328 successful in that sense with this highly specific kind
of investigation then wel1 move into other questions such
as whether or not acupuncture is effective for certain
kinds of pain and not for other kinds of pain whether
individuals with certain personality characteristics can
derive relief of pain from acupuncture whereas persons
with different personality characteristics cannot For
instance whether or not the suggestability or the hypnotisa
bUity of thepatient is influential in determining whether
or not he can get relief of pain from acupuncture Uh
questions of whether or not variations in the acupuncture
teclmique are important in determining its effectiveness
DR KlTZ
Using this technique we can reproduce the same pain
sequence uh over and over again so the patient can then
serve as his own control Now as long as the teclmique
is reproduceble then we can have confidence in atteJllpting
to modify it on a very valid way and we can do that by
giving thepatient morphine or aspirin or a tranquilizer or ~
plycebal or acupuncture and we 11 then see how it
modifies the uh type of pain that is produced
DR OWENS
Put it at about I and a half zero 2 zeroes o
DR SMITH
You feel one now
DR OWENS
No half
Fast Dissolve to A 502 C CONTd FULL
MATTE Dr 0 Kitz 504
5 44
DR KITZ
Well acupuncture presumably to relieve pain and shy
therefore falls under the province of what we would
describe as anesthesiology But to Western medicine it
is a new teclmique a new method and its my opinion
therefore that it IRs to be evaluated like any other new
drug or new technique and to our way of thinking that
has yet to be done We have noevidence that reproduceabl
quantitable evidence that it is anything more than plecebo
effect perhaps hypnosis or perhaps something elite
And thats really what were attempting to do
C SOUND CONTd -ACUPUNCTURE DEMO-MGH
DR SMITH
Our plan is to allow him to go to moderately distressing
or very distressing pain somewhere between level 2 or
level 3 and then begin the acupuncture and attempt with
the acupuncture to bring the pain back down the pain scale
603 C SOUND CONrd FULLD SOUNDIN UNDER-MGH DE MO
DR CHAING
Basically acupuncture is to insert a particular needle
into some point on the body to produce a kind of a counter
agitating effect to prevent th epain sensation And the
technique itself is not difficult the difficult is to lmow how
to do it If somebody didnt have any experience and you
arbitrary insert a needle in any point can produce some
kind of significant side effect Thats why we take special
precaution try to get some good foundation background
then we can apply it
648 D SOUND PRESENCE GOES OUT
- DR SMITH
If it were irrelevent as to where the needles went in if no
matter where the needles went in we got a positive effect J
a reduction in pain then it would be reasonable to believe
M-344JSeg B
Fast Dissolve to B Dr Smith on Camera
Page II
that the explanation of the pain relief lies some where it
the domain of psychology 0
DR SMITH
Whats the pain level now
DR OWENS
Its 2~
DR SMITH
Two and a half that puts it between mode rate1y distressin
and very distressing and at this point we have 3 or 4
needles in the right arm and as soon as thats finished
Drbull Chaing will put 3 or 4 in the left arm and what we foun
with Dr Owens in the past is tlRt 3 or 4 minutes after
insertion of the final needle there begin to be a reduction
743 in his subjective level of pain Ihe individual who turns
this kind of uh uh Wi 0 who who asks for this kind of
help is often an individual who has exhausted other possibi
lities And that individual has a tremendous need to bel~
that w1rat is being done will be beneficial And in our in
our investigations we will eliminate that possible source
of misunderstanding of what is happening
DR KITZ
Uh in addition to reports and the use of acupuncture in
the llse- of treating pain and also for general anesthesia
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
anesthetic for surgery the principles of traditional
Dissolve to A Streets in China
218 acupuncture remain basically unchanged Since President
Nixons door-opening visit to China in 1972 many physician
inthe United States have either seen or heard the sucesses
that the Chinese have had with Acupuncture both as an
Dissolve to B 232 analgesic and anesthetic Their training as scimtific D~r--a~t~B=I~a-c~kb-oa-r-d~----------------~--------------~
Dissolve to A Acupuncture Demo
mmiddotinded physicians tells them that it is tied into hypnosis
or black magic but for many physicial s their intuitive
sense tells them that there has to be a margin of truth
244 im itsomewhere
No one not even the Chinese understand why acupuncture
works if indeed it does at all There are theories
based on some scientific findings related to the complicashy
ted nerve network known as the autonomic nervous system
bullbullbull but these are only theories which are not thoroughly
conclusive The Federal Government through the auspices
of the National Institute of Health in Washington is
encouraging medical teams who are interested in studying
the mechanisms involved in acupuncture to apply for a
grant It is the hope of NIH that through extensive
research they might be able to unlock the mysteries
of acupuncture and bring it clearly under the preview
of medicine
MATTE MONTAGE 324 In this report we will examine the works of 2 experimental
MATTE TITLE 334
teams currently involved insuch researchbullbullbull in an
attempt to answer the question whether Acupuncture bull
is Medicine 0 bull or Magicbullbullbullbull
337 C SOUND OUTD SOUND FULL
FADE TO BLACK 340 ALL SOUND OUT
END SEGMENT A
SEGMENT B
Fade in A Acupuncture charts in window
00
01
D SOUND UNDER (STREET PRESENCE)
C SOO ND FULL-ADA RD SOUND CONTd UNDER
Much of the middotreal discussion about acupuncture within
U S medical circles had been treated very lightly until
the autumn of 1971 At that tinE 4 of the nations most
prominent physicians were invited by the Peoples
Republic of China and the All-China Medical Association
to witness and discuss Qlinese Medicine Among those
20 _ CHANGE PRESENCE ON D SOUND (From street to E D White
honored with the invitation was Dr Paul Dudley White
of the Massachussetts General Hospital and former
pe rsonal physician to President Dwight D Eisenhower
Dr White who ranks as a patriarch of world medicine
expressed his thoughts about acupuncture and what he had
personally witnessed in Chinabullbullbull
38 D SOUND OUT e SOUND FULL-DR WHITE
DR WHITE
When we went to China uh accidentally the last day we
were there having seeing very important developments
in public health which excited us very much there was
an observation the last day we were there but wed like
to show you something interesting if you want to see some
acupuncture and acupuncture anesthesia Two of the
patients that we saw with major surgery were especially
interesting one was the patient who was having a lobe of
the lung removed by a fellow surgeon - he was a surgeon
himself who was having the lobe of the lung thorasic surshy
geon And his friend was taking out this lobe butmiddothe had
nothing done to the other side he was breathing normally
while the ope ration was being done which has surprised
surgeons thorasic surgeons when I came back here
because this is not the technique over here they have to
support the other lung to mak3 it sure that its going to
be working properly But there there was no effort none
not needed And then one of the other cases that we saw
especially that I talked with with whom I talked with the
patient oldlady middle aged lady having brain tumor
explored and I was talking to her when she was in no
pain while her skull was being entered Then they were
able at the end of the operation to sometimes if there
was a theradectomy to jump off the table as we saw
several patients and walk back to their hospital room
And they were able to if they hadnt had any gastrointestishy
nal operation they would be able to eat very soon aftershy
wards It seemed a much better technique if it could
be done over here than our way of doing surgery which
was its complications which are apparently more numershy
ous
238 C SOUND CONTd -ADAffiD SOUND UNDER-MGH DEMO 1
ADAm
At Massachussets General Hospital in Boston members
of the Department of Anesthesiology think that Acupunctur t
should not be dismissed out of hand without further
data to bakc up opinion With an attitude of healthy
skeptiCism the MGH team is conducting a series of
experiments which will induce pain into healthy physician
volunteers and under a controlled situation test their
reactions to the teclmique of acupuncture bullbull
C SOUND FULL AND D SOUND CONTd UNDER
DR SMITH
Our aim will be very specific o It will be to find out
initially whether or not a particular kind of experinTentallJ
induced pain can be surpressed by acupuncture and how
that effectiveness of acupuncture compares with standard
techniques for alleviating pain like adm inistrating
_D_is_s_o_lv_e_to_B______3__2_7___m_o_rplo-h_in_ebullbullAnd if we find that acupuncture is
327 D SOUND OUT
Matte Dr Smith 328 successful in that sense with this highly specific kind
of investigation then wel1 move into other questions such
as whether or not acupuncture is effective for certain
kinds of pain and not for other kinds of pain whether
individuals with certain personality characteristics can
derive relief of pain from acupuncture whereas persons
with different personality characteristics cannot For
instance whether or not the suggestability or the hypnotisa
bUity of thepatient is influential in determining whether
or not he can get relief of pain from acupuncture Uh
questions of whether or not variations in the acupuncture
teclmique are important in determining its effectiveness
DR KlTZ
Using this technique we can reproduce the same pain
sequence uh over and over again so the patient can then
serve as his own control Now as long as the teclmique
is reproduceble then we can have confidence in atteJllpting
to modify it on a very valid way and we can do that by
giving thepatient morphine or aspirin or a tranquilizer or ~
plycebal or acupuncture and we 11 then see how it
modifies the uh type of pain that is produced
DR OWENS
Put it at about I and a half zero 2 zeroes o
DR SMITH
You feel one now
DR OWENS
No half
Fast Dissolve to A 502 C CONTd FULL
MATTE Dr 0 Kitz 504
5 44
DR KITZ
Well acupuncture presumably to relieve pain and shy
therefore falls under the province of what we would
describe as anesthesiology But to Western medicine it
is a new teclmique a new method and its my opinion
therefore that it IRs to be evaluated like any other new
drug or new technique and to our way of thinking that
has yet to be done We have noevidence that reproduceabl
quantitable evidence that it is anything more than plecebo
effect perhaps hypnosis or perhaps something elite
And thats really what were attempting to do
C SOUND CONTd -ACUPUNCTURE DEMO-MGH
DR SMITH
Our plan is to allow him to go to moderately distressing
or very distressing pain somewhere between level 2 or
level 3 and then begin the acupuncture and attempt with
the acupuncture to bring the pain back down the pain scale
603 C SOUND CONrd FULLD SOUNDIN UNDER-MGH DE MO
DR CHAING
Basically acupuncture is to insert a particular needle
into some point on the body to produce a kind of a counter
agitating effect to prevent th epain sensation And the
technique itself is not difficult the difficult is to lmow how
to do it If somebody didnt have any experience and you
arbitrary insert a needle in any point can produce some
kind of significant side effect Thats why we take special
precaution try to get some good foundation background
then we can apply it
648 D SOUND PRESENCE GOES OUT
- DR SMITH
If it were irrelevent as to where the needles went in if no
matter where the needles went in we got a positive effect J
a reduction in pain then it would be reasonable to believe
M-344JSeg B
Fast Dissolve to B Dr Smith on Camera
Page II
that the explanation of the pain relief lies some where it
the domain of psychology 0
DR SMITH
Whats the pain level now
DR OWENS
Its 2~
DR SMITH
Two and a half that puts it between mode rate1y distressin
and very distressing and at this point we have 3 or 4
needles in the right arm and as soon as thats finished
Drbull Chaing will put 3 or 4 in the left arm and what we foun
with Dr Owens in the past is tlRt 3 or 4 minutes after
insertion of the final needle there begin to be a reduction
743 in his subjective level of pain Ihe individual who turns
this kind of uh uh Wi 0 who who asks for this kind of
help is often an individual who has exhausted other possibi
lities And that individual has a tremendous need to bel~
that w1rat is being done will be beneficial And in our in
our investigations we will eliminate that possible source
of misunderstanding of what is happening
DR KITZ
Uh in addition to reports and the use of acupuncture in
the llse- of treating pain and also for general anesthesia
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
MATTE TITLE 334
teams currently involved insuch researchbullbullbull in an
attempt to answer the question whether Acupuncture bull
is Medicine 0 bull or Magicbullbullbullbull
337 C SOUND OUTD SOUND FULL
FADE TO BLACK 340 ALL SOUND OUT
END SEGMENT A
SEGMENT B
Fade in A Acupuncture charts in window
00
01
D SOUND UNDER (STREET PRESENCE)
C SOO ND FULL-ADA RD SOUND CONTd UNDER
Much of the middotreal discussion about acupuncture within
U S medical circles had been treated very lightly until
the autumn of 1971 At that tinE 4 of the nations most
prominent physicians were invited by the Peoples
Republic of China and the All-China Medical Association
to witness and discuss Qlinese Medicine Among those
20 _ CHANGE PRESENCE ON D SOUND (From street to E D White
honored with the invitation was Dr Paul Dudley White
of the Massachussetts General Hospital and former
pe rsonal physician to President Dwight D Eisenhower
Dr White who ranks as a patriarch of world medicine
expressed his thoughts about acupuncture and what he had
personally witnessed in Chinabullbullbull
38 D SOUND OUT e SOUND FULL-DR WHITE
DR WHITE
When we went to China uh accidentally the last day we
were there having seeing very important developments
in public health which excited us very much there was
an observation the last day we were there but wed like
to show you something interesting if you want to see some
acupuncture and acupuncture anesthesia Two of the
patients that we saw with major surgery were especially
interesting one was the patient who was having a lobe of
the lung removed by a fellow surgeon - he was a surgeon
himself who was having the lobe of the lung thorasic surshy
geon And his friend was taking out this lobe butmiddothe had
nothing done to the other side he was breathing normally
while the ope ration was being done which has surprised
surgeons thorasic surgeons when I came back here
because this is not the technique over here they have to
support the other lung to mak3 it sure that its going to
be working properly But there there was no effort none
not needed And then one of the other cases that we saw
especially that I talked with with whom I talked with the
patient oldlady middle aged lady having brain tumor
explored and I was talking to her when she was in no
pain while her skull was being entered Then they were
able at the end of the operation to sometimes if there
was a theradectomy to jump off the table as we saw
several patients and walk back to their hospital room
And they were able to if they hadnt had any gastrointestishy
nal operation they would be able to eat very soon aftershy
wards It seemed a much better technique if it could
be done over here than our way of doing surgery which
was its complications which are apparently more numershy
ous
238 C SOUND CONTd -ADAffiD SOUND UNDER-MGH DEMO 1
ADAm
At Massachussets General Hospital in Boston members
of the Department of Anesthesiology think that Acupunctur t
should not be dismissed out of hand without further
data to bakc up opinion With an attitude of healthy
skeptiCism the MGH team is conducting a series of
experiments which will induce pain into healthy physician
volunteers and under a controlled situation test their
reactions to the teclmique of acupuncture bullbull
C SOUND FULL AND D SOUND CONTd UNDER
DR SMITH
Our aim will be very specific o It will be to find out
initially whether or not a particular kind of experinTentallJ
induced pain can be surpressed by acupuncture and how
that effectiveness of acupuncture compares with standard
techniques for alleviating pain like adm inistrating
_D_is_s_o_lv_e_to_B______3__2_7___m_o_rplo-h_in_ebullbullAnd if we find that acupuncture is
327 D SOUND OUT
Matte Dr Smith 328 successful in that sense with this highly specific kind
of investigation then wel1 move into other questions such
as whether or not acupuncture is effective for certain
kinds of pain and not for other kinds of pain whether
individuals with certain personality characteristics can
derive relief of pain from acupuncture whereas persons
with different personality characteristics cannot For
instance whether or not the suggestability or the hypnotisa
bUity of thepatient is influential in determining whether
or not he can get relief of pain from acupuncture Uh
questions of whether or not variations in the acupuncture
teclmique are important in determining its effectiveness
DR KlTZ
Using this technique we can reproduce the same pain
sequence uh over and over again so the patient can then
serve as his own control Now as long as the teclmique
is reproduceble then we can have confidence in atteJllpting
to modify it on a very valid way and we can do that by
giving thepatient morphine or aspirin or a tranquilizer or ~
plycebal or acupuncture and we 11 then see how it
modifies the uh type of pain that is produced
DR OWENS
Put it at about I and a half zero 2 zeroes o
DR SMITH
You feel one now
DR OWENS
No half
Fast Dissolve to A 502 C CONTd FULL
MATTE Dr 0 Kitz 504
5 44
DR KITZ
Well acupuncture presumably to relieve pain and shy
therefore falls under the province of what we would
describe as anesthesiology But to Western medicine it
is a new teclmique a new method and its my opinion
therefore that it IRs to be evaluated like any other new
drug or new technique and to our way of thinking that
has yet to be done We have noevidence that reproduceabl
quantitable evidence that it is anything more than plecebo
effect perhaps hypnosis or perhaps something elite
And thats really what were attempting to do
C SOUND CONTd -ACUPUNCTURE DEMO-MGH
DR SMITH
Our plan is to allow him to go to moderately distressing
or very distressing pain somewhere between level 2 or
level 3 and then begin the acupuncture and attempt with
the acupuncture to bring the pain back down the pain scale
603 C SOUND CONrd FULLD SOUNDIN UNDER-MGH DE MO
DR CHAING
Basically acupuncture is to insert a particular needle
into some point on the body to produce a kind of a counter
agitating effect to prevent th epain sensation And the
technique itself is not difficult the difficult is to lmow how
to do it If somebody didnt have any experience and you
arbitrary insert a needle in any point can produce some
kind of significant side effect Thats why we take special
precaution try to get some good foundation background
then we can apply it
648 D SOUND PRESENCE GOES OUT
- DR SMITH
If it were irrelevent as to where the needles went in if no
matter where the needles went in we got a positive effect J
a reduction in pain then it would be reasonable to believe
M-344JSeg B
Fast Dissolve to B Dr Smith on Camera
Page II
that the explanation of the pain relief lies some where it
the domain of psychology 0
DR SMITH
Whats the pain level now
DR OWENS
Its 2~
DR SMITH
Two and a half that puts it between mode rate1y distressin
and very distressing and at this point we have 3 or 4
needles in the right arm and as soon as thats finished
Drbull Chaing will put 3 or 4 in the left arm and what we foun
with Dr Owens in the past is tlRt 3 or 4 minutes after
insertion of the final needle there begin to be a reduction
743 in his subjective level of pain Ihe individual who turns
this kind of uh uh Wi 0 who who asks for this kind of
help is often an individual who has exhausted other possibi
lities And that individual has a tremendous need to bel~
that w1rat is being done will be beneficial And in our in
our investigations we will eliminate that possible source
of misunderstanding of what is happening
DR KITZ
Uh in addition to reports and the use of acupuncture in
the llse- of treating pain and also for general anesthesia
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
SEGMENT B
Fade in A Acupuncture charts in window
00
01
D SOUND UNDER (STREET PRESENCE)
C SOO ND FULL-ADA RD SOUND CONTd UNDER
Much of the middotreal discussion about acupuncture within
U S medical circles had been treated very lightly until
the autumn of 1971 At that tinE 4 of the nations most
prominent physicians were invited by the Peoples
Republic of China and the All-China Medical Association
to witness and discuss Qlinese Medicine Among those
20 _ CHANGE PRESENCE ON D SOUND (From street to E D White
honored with the invitation was Dr Paul Dudley White
of the Massachussetts General Hospital and former
pe rsonal physician to President Dwight D Eisenhower
Dr White who ranks as a patriarch of world medicine
expressed his thoughts about acupuncture and what he had
personally witnessed in Chinabullbullbull
38 D SOUND OUT e SOUND FULL-DR WHITE
DR WHITE
When we went to China uh accidentally the last day we
were there having seeing very important developments
in public health which excited us very much there was
an observation the last day we were there but wed like
to show you something interesting if you want to see some
acupuncture and acupuncture anesthesia Two of the
patients that we saw with major surgery were especially
interesting one was the patient who was having a lobe of
the lung removed by a fellow surgeon - he was a surgeon
himself who was having the lobe of the lung thorasic surshy
geon And his friend was taking out this lobe butmiddothe had
nothing done to the other side he was breathing normally
while the ope ration was being done which has surprised
surgeons thorasic surgeons when I came back here
because this is not the technique over here they have to
support the other lung to mak3 it sure that its going to
be working properly But there there was no effort none
not needed And then one of the other cases that we saw
especially that I talked with with whom I talked with the
patient oldlady middle aged lady having brain tumor
explored and I was talking to her when she was in no
pain while her skull was being entered Then they were
able at the end of the operation to sometimes if there
was a theradectomy to jump off the table as we saw
several patients and walk back to their hospital room
And they were able to if they hadnt had any gastrointestishy
nal operation they would be able to eat very soon aftershy
wards It seemed a much better technique if it could
be done over here than our way of doing surgery which
was its complications which are apparently more numershy
ous
238 C SOUND CONTd -ADAffiD SOUND UNDER-MGH DEMO 1
ADAm
At Massachussets General Hospital in Boston members
of the Department of Anesthesiology think that Acupunctur t
should not be dismissed out of hand without further
data to bakc up opinion With an attitude of healthy
skeptiCism the MGH team is conducting a series of
experiments which will induce pain into healthy physician
volunteers and under a controlled situation test their
reactions to the teclmique of acupuncture bullbull
C SOUND FULL AND D SOUND CONTd UNDER
DR SMITH
Our aim will be very specific o It will be to find out
initially whether or not a particular kind of experinTentallJ
induced pain can be surpressed by acupuncture and how
that effectiveness of acupuncture compares with standard
techniques for alleviating pain like adm inistrating
_D_is_s_o_lv_e_to_B______3__2_7___m_o_rplo-h_in_ebullbullAnd if we find that acupuncture is
327 D SOUND OUT
Matte Dr Smith 328 successful in that sense with this highly specific kind
of investigation then wel1 move into other questions such
as whether or not acupuncture is effective for certain
kinds of pain and not for other kinds of pain whether
individuals with certain personality characteristics can
derive relief of pain from acupuncture whereas persons
with different personality characteristics cannot For
instance whether or not the suggestability or the hypnotisa
bUity of thepatient is influential in determining whether
or not he can get relief of pain from acupuncture Uh
questions of whether or not variations in the acupuncture
teclmique are important in determining its effectiveness
DR KlTZ
Using this technique we can reproduce the same pain
sequence uh over and over again so the patient can then
serve as his own control Now as long as the teclmique
is reproduceble then we can have confidence in atteJllpting
to modify it on a very valid way and we can do that by
giving thepatient morphine or aspirin or a tranquilizer or ~
plycebal or acupuncture and we 11 then see how it
modifies the uh type of pain that is produced
DR OWENS
Put it at about I and a half zero 2 zeroes o
DR SMITH
You feel one now
DR OWENS
No half
Fast Dissolve to A 502 C CONTd FULL
MATTE Dr 0 Kitz 504
5 44
DR KITZ
Well acupuncture presumably to relieve pain and shy
therefore falls under the province of what we would
describe as anesthesiology But to Western medicine it
is a new teclmique a new method and its my opinion
therefore that it IRs to be evaluated like any other new
drug or new technique and to our way of thinking that
has yet to be done We have noevidence that reproduceabl
quantitable evidence that it is anything more than plecebo
effect perhaps hypnosis or perhaps something elite
And thats really what were attempting to do
C SOUND CONTd -ACUPUNCTURE DEMO-MGH
DR SMITH
Our plan is to allow him to go to moderately distressing
or very distressing pain somewhere between level 2 or
level 3 and then begin the acupuncture and attempt with
the acupuncture to bring the pain back down the pain scale
603 C SOUND CONrd FULLD SOUNDIN UNDER-MGH DE MO
DR CHAING
Basically acupuncture is to insert a particular needle
into some point on the body to produce a kind of a counter
agitating effect to prevent th epain sensation And the
technique itself is not difficult the difficult is to lmow how
to do it If somebody didnt have any experience and you
arbitrary insert a needle in any point can produce some
kind of significant side effect Thats why we take special
precaution try to get some good foundation background
then we can apply it
648 D SOUND PRESENCE GOES OUT
- DR SMITH
If it were irrelevent as to where the needles went in if no
matter where the needles went in we got a positive effect J
a reduction in pain then it would be reasonable to believe
M-344JSeg B
Fast Dissolve to B Dr Smith on Camera
Page II
that the explanation of the pain relief lies some where it
the domain of psychology 0
DR SMITH
Whats the pain level now
DR OWENS
Its 2~
DR SMITH
Two and a half that puts it between mode rate1y distressin
and very distressing and at this point we have 3 or 4
needles in the right arm and as soon as thats finished
Drbull Chaing will put 3 or 4 in the left arm and what we foun
with Dr Owens in the past is tlRt 3 or 4 minutes after
insertion of the final needle there begin to be a reduction
743 in his subjective level of pain Ihe individual who turns
this kind of uh uh Wi 0 who who asks for this kind of
help is often an individual who has exhausted other possibi
lities And that individual has a tremendous need to bel~
that w1rat is being done will be beneficial And in our in
our investigations we will eliminate that possible source
of misunderstanding of what is happening
DR KITZ
Uh in addition to reports and the use of acupuncture in
the llse- of treating pain and also for general anesthesia
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
were there having seeing very important developments
in public health which excited us very much there was
an observation the last day we were there but wed like
to show you something interesting if you want to see some
acupuncture and acupuncture anesthesia Two of the
patients that we saw with major surgery were especially
interesting one was the patient who was having a lobe of
the lung removed by a fellow surgeon - he was a surgeon
himself who was having the lobe of the lung thorasic surshy
geon And his friend was taking out this lobe butmiddothe had
nothing done to the other side he was breathing normally
while the ope ration was being done which has surprised
surgeons thorasic surgeons when I came back here
because this is not the technique over here they have to
support the other lung to mak3 it sure that its going to
be working properly But there there was no effort none
not needed And then one of the other cases that we saw
especially that I talked with with whom I talked with the
patient oldlady middle aged lady having brain tumor
explored and I was talking to her when she was in no
pain while her skull was being entered Then they were
able at the end of the operation to sometimes if there
was a theradectomy to jump off the table as we saw
several patients and walk back to their hospital room
And they were able to if they hadnt had any gastrointestishy
nal operation they would be able to eat very soon aftershy
wards It seemed a much better technique if it could
be done over here than our way of doing surgery which
was its complications which are apparently more numershy
ous
238 C SOUND CONTd -ADAffiD SOUND UNDER-MGH DEMO 1
ADAm
At Massachussets General Hospital in Boston members
of the Department of Anesthesiology think that Acupunctur t
should not be dismissed out of hand without further
data to bakc up opinion With an attitude of healthy
skeptiCism the MGH team is conducting a series of
experiments which will induce pain into healthy physician
volunteers and under a controlled situation test their
reactions to the teclmique of acupuncture bullbull
C SOUND FULL AND D SOUND CONTd UNDER
DR SMITH
Our aim will be very specific o It will be to find out
initially whether or not a particular kind of experinTentallJ
induced pain can be surpressed by acupuncture and how
that effectiveness of acupuncture compares with standard
techniques for alleviating pain like adm inistrating
_D_is_s_o_lv_e_to_B______3__2_7___m_o_rplo-h_in_ebullbullAnd if we find that acupuncture is
327 D SOUND OUT
Matte Dr Smith 328 successful in that sense with this highly specific kind
of investigation then wel1 move into other questions such
as whether or not acupuncture is effective for certain
kinds of pain and not for other kinds of pain whether
individuals with certain personality characteristics can
derive relief of pain from acupuncture whereas persons
with different personality characteristics cannot For
instance whether or not the suggestability or the hypnotisa
bUity of thepatient is influential in determining whether
or not he can get relief of pain from acupuncture Uh
questions of whether or not variations in the acupuncture
teclmique are important in determining its effectiveness
DR KlTZ
Using this technique we can reproduce the same pain
sequence uh over and over again so the patient can then
serve as his own control Now as long as the teclmique
is reproduceble then we can have confidence in atteJllpting
to modify it on a very valid way and we can do that by
giving thepatient morphine or aspirin or a tranquilizer or ~
plycebal or acupuncture and we 11 then see how it
modifies the uh type of pain that is produced
DR OWENS
Put it at about I and a half zero 2 zeroes o
DR SMITH
You feel one now
DR OWENS
No half
Fast Dissolve to A 502 C CONTd FULL
MATTE Dr 0 Kitz 504
5 44
DR KITZ
Well acupuncture presumably to relieve pain and shy
therefore falls under the province of what we would
describe as anesthesiology But to Western medicine it
is a new teclmique a new method and its my opinion
therefore that it IRs to be evaluated like any other new
drug or new technique and to our way of thinking that
has yet to be done We have noevidence that reproduceabl
quantitable evidence that it is anything more than plecebo
effect perhaps hypnosis or perhaps something elite
And thats really what were attempting to do
C SOUND CONTd -ACUPUNCTURE DEMO-MGH
DR SMITH
Our plan is to allow him to go to moderately distressing
or very distressing pain somewhere between level 2 or
level 3 and then begin the acupuncture and attempt with
the acupuncture to bring the pain back down the pain scale
603 C SOUND CONrd FULLD SOUNDIN UNDER-MGH DE MO
DR CHAING
Basically acupuncture is to insert a particular needle
into some point on the body to produce a kind of a counter
agitating effect to prevent th epain sensation And the
technique itself is not difficult the difficult is to lmow how
to do it If somebody didnt have any experience and you
arbitrary insert a needle in any point can produce some
kind of significant side effect Thats why we take special
precaution try to get some good foundation background
then we can apply it
648 D SOUND PRESENCE GOES OUT
- DR SMITH
If it were irrelevent as to where the needles went in if no
matter where the needles went in we got a positive effect J
a reduction in pain then it would be reasonable to believe
M-344JSeg B
Fast Dissolve to B Dr Smith on Camera
Page II
that the explanation of the pain relief lies some where it
the domain of psychology 0
DR SMITH
Whats the pain level now
DR OWENS
Its 2~
DR SMITH
Two and a half that puts it between mode rate1y distressin
and very distressing and at this point we have 3 or 4
needles in the right arm and as soon as thats finished
Drbull Chaing will put 3 or 4 in the left arm and what we foun
with Dr Owens in the past is tlRt 3 or 4 minutes after
insertion of the final needle there begin to be a reduction
743 in his subjective level of pain Ihe individual who turns
this kind of uh uh Wi 0 who who asks for this kind of
help is often an individual who has exhausted other possibi
lities And that individual has a tremendous need to bel~
that w1rat is being done will be beneficial And in our in
our investigations we will eliminate that possible source
of misunderstanding of what is happening
DR KITZ
Uh in addition to reports and the use of acupuncture in
the llse- of treating pain and also for general anesthesia
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
wards It seemed a much better technique if it could
be done over here than our way of doing surgery which
was its complications which are apparently more numershy
ous
238 C SOUND CONTd -ADAffiD SOUND UNDER-MGH DEMO 1
ADAm
At Massachussets General Hospital in Boston members
of the Department of Anesthesiology think that Acupunctur t
should not be dismissed out of hand without further
data to bakc up opinion With an attitude of healthy
skeptiCism the MGH team is conducting a series of
experiments which will induce pain into healthy physician
volunteers and under a controlled situation test their
reactions to the teclmique of acupuncture bullbull
C SOUND FULL AND D SOUND CONTd UNDER
DR SMITH
Our aim will be very specific o It will be to find out
initially whether or not a particular kind of experinTentallJ
induced pain can be surpressed by acupuncture and how
that effectiveness of acupuncture compares with standard
techniques for alleviating pain like adm inistrating
_D_is_s_o_lv_e_to_B______3__2_7___m_o_rplo-h_in_ebullbullAnd if we find that acupuncture is
327 D SOUND OUT
Matte Dr Smith 328 successful in that sense with this highly specific kind
of investigation then wel1 move into other questions such
as whether or not acupuncture is effective for certain
kinds of pain and not for other kinds of pain whether
individuals with certain personality characteristics can
derive relief of pain from acupuncture whereas persons
with different personality characteristics cannot For
instance whether or not the suggestability or the hypnotisa
bUity of thepatient is influential in determining whether
or not he can get relief of pain from acupuncture Uh
questions of whether or not variations in the acupuncture
teclmique are important in determining its effectiveness
DR KlTZ
Using this technique we can reproduce the same pain
sequence uh over and over again so the patient can then
serve as his own control Now as long as the teclmique
is reproduceble then we can have confidence in atteJllpting
to modify it on a very valid way and we can do that by
giving thepatient morphine or aspirin or a tranquilizer or ~
plycebal or acupuncture and we 11 then see how it
modifies the uh type of pain that is produced
DR OWENS
Put it at about I and a half zero 2 zeroes o
DR SMITH
You feel one now
DR OWENS
No half
Fast Dissolve to A 502 C CONTd FULL
MATTE Dr 0 Kitz 504
5 44
DR KITZ
Well acupuncture presumably to relieve pain and shy
therefore falls under the province of what we would
describe as anesthesiology But to Western medicine it
is a new teclmique a new method and its my opinion
therefore that it IRs to be evaluated like any other new
drug or new technique and to our way of thinking that
has yet to be done We have noevidence that reproduceabl
quantitable evidence that it is anything more than plecebo
effect perhaps hypnosis or perhaps something elite
And thats really what were attempting to do
C SOUND CONTd -ACUPUNCTURE DEMO-MGH
DR SMITH
Our plan is to allow him to go to moderately distressing
or very distressing pain somewhere between level 2 or
level 3 and then begin the acupuncture and attempt with
the acupuncture to bring the pain back down the pain scale
603 C SOUND CONrd FULLD SOUNDIN UNDER-MGH DE MO
DR CHAING
Basically acupuncture is to insert a particular needle
into some point on the body to produce a kind of a counter
agitating effect to prevent th epain sensation And the
technique itself is not difficult the difficult is to lmow how
to do it If somebody didnt have any experience and you
arbitrary insert a needle in any point can produce some
kind of significant side effect Thats why we take special
precaution try to get some good foundation background
then we can apply it
648 D SOUND PRESENCE GOES OUT
- DR SMITH
If it were irrelevent as to where the needles went in if no
matter where the needles went in we got a positive effect J
a reduction in pain then it would be reasonable to believe
M-344JSeg B
Fast Dissolve to B Dr Smith on Camera
Page II
that the explanation of the pain relief lies some where it
the domain of psychology 0
DR SMITH
Whats the pain level now
DR OWENS
Its 2~
DR SMITH
Two and a half that puts it between mode rate1y distressin
and very distressing and at this point we have 3 or 4
needles in the right arm and as soon as thats finished
Drbull Chaing will put 3 or 4 in the left arm and what we foun
with Dr Owens in the past is tlRt 3 or 4 minutes after
insertion of the final needle there begin to be a reduction
743 in his subjective level of pain Ihe individual who turns
this kind of uh uh Wi 0 who who asks for this kind of
help is often an individual who has exhausted other possibi
lities And that individual has a tremendous need to bel~
that w1rat is being done will be beneficial And in our in
our investigations we will eliminate that possible source
of misunderstanding of what is happening
DR KITZ
Uh in addition to reports and the use of acupuncture in
the llse- of treating pain and also for general anesthesia
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
_D_is_s_o_lv_e_to_B______3__2_7___m_o_rplo-h_in_ebullbullAnd if we find that acupuncture is
327 D SOUND OUT
Matte Dr Smith 328 successful in that sense with this highly specific kind
of investigation then wel1 move into other questions such
as whether or not acupuncture is effective for certain
kinds of pain and not for other kinds of pain whether
individuals with certain personality characteristics can
derive relief of pain from acupuncture whereas persons
with different personality characteristics cannot For
instance whether or not the suggestability or the hypnotisa
bUity of thepatient is influential in determining whether
or not he can get relief of pain from acupuncture Uh
questions of whether or not variations in the acupuncture
teclmique are important in determining its effectiveness
DR KlTZ
Using this technique we can reproduce the same pain
sequence uh over and over again so the patient can then
serve as his own control Now as long as the teclmique
is reproduceble then we can have confidence in atteJllpting
to modify it on a very valid way and we can do that by
giving thepatient morphine or aspirin or a tranquilizer or ~
plycebal or acupuncture and we 11 then see how it
modifies the uh type of pain that is produced
DR OWENS
Put it at about I and a half zero 2 zeroes o
DR SMITH
You feel one now
DR OWENS
No half
Fast Dissolve to A 502 C CONTd FULL
MATTE Dr 0 Kitz 504
5 44
DR KITZ
Well acupuncture presumably to relieve pain and shy
therefore falls under the province of what we would
describe as anesthesiology But to Western medicine it
is a new teclmique a new method and its my opinion
therefore that it IRs to be evaluated like any other new
drug or new technique and to our way of thinking that
has yet to be done We have noevidence that reproduceabl
quantitable evidence that it is anything more than plecebo
effect perhaps hypnosis or perhaps something elite
And thats really what were attempting to do
C SOUND CONTd -ACUPUNCTURE DEMO-MGH
DR SMITH
Our plan is to allow him to go to moderately distressing
or very distressing pain somewhere between level 2 or
level 3 and then begin the acupuncture and attempt with
the acupuncture to bring the pain back down the pain scale
603 C SOUND CONrd FULLD SOUNDIN UNDER-MGH DE MO
DR CHAING
Basically acupuncture is to insert a particular needle
into some point on the body to produce a kind of a counter
agitating effect to prevent th epain sensation And the
technique itself is not difficult the difficult is to lmow how
to do it If somebody didnt have any experience and you
arbitrary insert a needle in any point can produce some
kind of significant side effect Thats why we take special
precaution try to get some good foundation background
then we can apply it
648 D SOUND PRESENCE GOES OUT
- DR SMITH
If it were irrelevent as to where the needles went in if no
matter where the needles went in we got a positive effect J
a reduction in pain then it would be reasonable to believe
M-344JSeg B
Fast Dissolve to B Dr Smith on Camera
Page II
that the explanation of the pain relief lies some where it
the domain of psychology 0
DR SMITH
Whats the pain level now
DR OWENS
Its 2~
DR SMITH
Two and a half that puts it between mode rate1y distressin
and very distressing and at this point we have 3 or 4
needles in the right arm and as soon as thats finished
Drbull Chaing will put 3 or 4 in the left arm and what we foun
with Dr Owens in the past is tlRt 3 or 4 minutes after
insertion of the final needle there begin to be a reduction
743 in his subjective level of pain Ihe individual who turns
this kind of uh uh Wi 0 who who asks for this kind of
help is often an individual who has exhausted other possibi
lities And that individual has a tremendous need to bel~
that w1rat is being done will be beneficial And in our in
our investigations we will eliminate that possible source
of misunderstanding of what is happening
DR KITZ
Uh in addition to reports and the use of acupuncture in
the llse- of treating pain and also for general anesthesia
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
modifies the uh type of pain that is produced
DR OWENS
Put it at about I and a half zero 2 zeroes o
DR SMITH
You feel one now
DR OWENS
No half
Fast Dissolve to A 502 C CONTd FULL
MATTE Dr 0 Kitz 504
5 44
DR KITZ
Well acupuncture presumably to relieve pain and shy
therefore falls under the province of what we would
describe as anesthesiology But to Western medicine it
is a new teclmique a new method and its my opinion
therefore that it IRs to be evaluated like any other new
drug or new technique and to our way of thinking that
has yet to be done We have noevidence that reproduceabl
quantitable evidence that it is anything more than plecebo
effect perhaps hypnosis or perhaps something elite
And thats really what were attempting to do
C SOUND CONTd -ACUPUNCTURE DEMO-MGH
DR SMITH
Our plan is to allow him to go to moderately distressing
or very distressing pain somewhere between level 2 or
level 3 and then begin the acupuncture and attempt with
the acupuncture to bring the pain back down the pain scale
603 C SOUND CONrd FULLD SOUNDIN UNDER-MGH DE MO
DR CHAING
Basically acupuncture is to insert a particular needle
into some point on the body to produce a kind of a counter
agitating effect to prevent th epain sensation And the
technique itself is not difficult the difficult is to lmow how
to do it If somebody didnt have any experience and you
arbitrary insert a needle in any point can produce some
kind of significant side effect Thats why we take special
precaution try to get some good foundation background
then we can apply it
648 D SOUND PRESENCE GOES OUT
- DR SMITH
If it were irrelevent as to where the needles went in if no
matter where the needles went in we got a positive effect J
a reduction in pain then it would be reasonable to believe
M-344JSeg B
Fast Dissolve to B Dr Smith on Camera
Page II
that the explanation of the pain relief lies some where it
the domain of psychology 0
DR SMITH
Whats the pain level now
DR OWENS
Its 2~
DR SMITH
Two and a half that puts it between mode rate1y distressin
and very distressing and at this point we have 3 or 4
needles in the right arm and as soon as thats finished
Drbull Chaing will put 3 or 4 in the left arm and what we foun
with Dr Owens in the past is tlRt 3 or 4 minutes after
insertion of the final needle there begin to be a reduction
743 in his subjective level of pain Ihe individual who turns
this kind of uh uh Wi 0 who who asks for this kind of
help is often an individual who has exhausted other possibi
lities And that individual has a tremendous need to bel~
that w1rat is being done will be beneficial And in our in
our investigations we will eliminate that possible source
of misunderstanding of what is happening
DR KITZ
Uh in addition to reports and the use of acupuncture in
the llse- of treating pain and also for general anesthesia
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
DR SMITH
Our plan is to allow him to go to moderately distressing
or very distressing pain somewhere between level 2 or
level 3 and then begin the acupuncture and attempt with
the acupuncture to bring the pain back down the pain scale
603 C SOUND CONrd FULLD SOUNDIN UNDER-MGH DE MO
DR CHAING
Basically acupuncture is to insert a particular needle
into some point on the body to produce a kind of a counter
agitating effect to prevent th epain sensation And the
technique itself is not difficult the difficult is to lmow how
to do it If somebody didnt have any experience and you
arbitrary insert a needle in any point can produce some
kind of significant side effect Thats why we take special
precaution try to get some good foundation background
then we can apply it
648 D SOUND PRESENCE GOES OUT
- DR SMITH
If it were irrelevent as to where the needles went in if no
matter where the needles went in we got a positive effect J
a reduction in pain then it would be reasonable to believe
M-344JSeg B
Fast Dissolve to B Dr Smith on Camera
Page II
that the explanation of the pain relief lies some where it
the domain of psychology 0
DR SMITH
Whats the pain level now
DR OWENS
Its 2~
DR SMITH
Two and a half that puts it between mode rate1y distressin
and very distressing and at this point we have 3 or 4
needles in the right arm and as soon as thats finished
Drbull Chaing will put 3 or 4 in the left arm and what we foun
with Dr Owens in the past is tlRt 3 or 4 minutes after
insertion of the final needle there begin to be a reduction
743 in his subjective level of pain Ihe individual who turns
this kind of uh uh Wi 0 who who asks for this kind of
help is often an individual who has exhausted other possibi
lities And that individual has a tremendous need to bel~
that w1rat is being done will be beneficial And in our in
our investigations we will eliminate that possible source
of misunderstanding of what is happening
DR KITZ
Uh in addition to reports and the use of acupuncture in
the llse- of treating pain and also for general anesthesia
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
M-344JSeg B
Fast Dissolve to B Dr Smith on Camera
Page II
that the explanation of the pain relief lies some where it
the domain of psychology 0
DR SMITH
Whats the pain level now
DR OWENS
Its 2~
DR SMITH
Two and a half that puts it between mode rate1y distressin
and very distressing and at this point we have 3 or 4
needles in the right arm and as soon as thats finished
Drbull Chaing will put 3 or 4 in the left arm and what we foun
with Dr Owens in the past is tlRt 3 or 4 minutes after
insertion of the final needle there begin to be a reduction
743 in his subjective level of pain Ihe individual who turns
this kind of uh uh Wi 0 who who asks for this kind of
help is often an individual who has exhausted other possibi
lities And that individual has a tremendous need to bel~
that w1rat is being done will be beneficial And in our in
our investigations we will eliminate that possible source
of misunderstanding of what is happening
DR KITZ
Uh in addition to reports and the use of acupuncture in
the llse- of treating pain and also for general anesthesia
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
-344SEt middotB Page l~
uh there are reports that it has been used in the treatment
of nerve deftness in the treatment of infectious diseases
and in the treatment of tumors Now quite clearly then
its got to be classified as a sort of universal antedote
Now there isnt such an entity We cant treat all of those
conditions with the same kind of technique
DR SMITH
What level of pain would you rate it at now Bill
DR OWENS
Moderately distreSSing
DR SMITH
It 1a s gone from 3 down to 2~ down to 2 in about what
4 or 5 minutes
DR OWENS
Five minutes
DR SMITH
Five minutes now this is something we never see in our
controlled experiments involving drugs even drugs as
powerful as morphine
DR OWENS
Its slightly less than 20 But I couldnt rate it at I yet
but it is going down
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
M-344Seg B Page 13
Im beginning to get back to the point where my lmuckles
and wrist are beginning to ache no longer does the whole
forearm ache Be rated at about Ii
DR SMITH
One and a half and thats after about what 7 minutes 8
minutes
DR OWENS
Eight minutes
DR KITZ
If this were not working Bill would be in extraordinary
pain he couid not tole rate it wed have to take thatoff
hed be breaking out in a sweat and hed be very pale
So quite clearly somethings going on
DR SMITH
Where would you put the rating now Bill
DR OWENS
Uh I would put it at one slight pain I could describe it
as a pins and needles feeling much like when the arm
has been asleep The pain at level 3 was extremely
severe steady pain throughout the arm from the elbow
down to the fingertips and now what I feel is a the pins a n
needles feeling in thefingert ips and in the palm of the hand
the forearm is essentially numb I do not really have any
Dain there
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
M - 344Seg B Page 14
DR KITZ
-Dis~solve___to__A______10__2_0___If_th_etechnique is applied indiscrimately by many people
to many conditions it could early in the game get a
bad name that is to say it could fail And hence be
Dissolve to B 1031 D SOUND IN UNDER-PRESENCE AT END OF DEMO removing needles from the arm
discarded when indeed it might be a very useful technishy
que And in order to determine that we must be very
careful when we evaluate it with proper controls before it
is introduced as a technique for general applicability
10 47 C SOUND OUT
FADE TO BLACK 1049 FADE D SOUNDOUT (ALL SOUND OUT)
END SEGMENT B
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
M-344Acupuncture Medicine or Magic Page 15
SEGMENT C I
Fade in A 00 D SOUND FULL (MUSIC) Acupuncture doll
03 C SOUND FULL-DR CHEND SOUND UNDER (MUSIC )
DR CHEN
Acupuncture started from antiquity and therefore it was
_D_is_so_l_v_e_t_o_B_______0_9___s_h_r_o_u_d_e_d_w_i_th_m--y~s_t_ic_i_s_mand uh uh even quackery
as anything thats that old uh would not be able to avoid
Dissolve to A 19 and theh on top of that theyve developedtfhe so-called
Meridian Theory to explain acupuncture It not only did
not help the cause of acupuncture I believe it turned
Dissolve to B 29 away scientifically minded people fro m acupuncture of -----------------~
which I was one There are no uh identifiable meri-
Dissolve to A 38 dians in the bodyfrom our western scientific study of -------------------------~
the hwm n body
Dissolve to B 43 C SOUND CONTd -ADAmD SOUND OUT C CNTd UNDER (MUSIC)
ADAm
Western medical science is attempting to refute the meri shy
dian the ory by the introduction of the Gate Theory
proposed by Doctor Melzack of Ca~da and Dr Wahl of
Great Britaino
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
M-344Seg C Page 16
53 CaANGE D SOUND FROM MUSIC TO BG 3
Here in the United States Dr Pang L Man and Calvin
H Chen of Northville state Hospital Northville Michigan
have proposed a Two Gate Theory explaining in part
how pain impulses may be blocked by the insertion of
acupuncture needles into the body bullbullbull
109 D SOUND OUTIC SOUND FULL-DR CHEN
Dr Chen on Camera
MATTE Dr Chen 110
DR CHEN
According to our two gate control theory acupuncture
stimulates the nerve fibres of the peripheral nerve that
is the nerve near the skin surface and because the currenj
is rather low they only stimulate the non-pain sensations
And these non-pain sensations are transmitted by the nerVE
to the spinal cord and close the gate there So that
subsequently painful impulses cannot pass through the
same gate into reaching the brain to be felt as pain This
is because when you stimulate the peripheral nerve of the
spinal nerve you close the gate in the spinal cord At
the same time it continues on to close the second gate in
the thalmus which really is the main gate
2 25 C SOUND Cl) NTd - DR MANN
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
M-344Seg C Page 17
MATTE Dr Mann 2 26 D~ MANN
We divided our study into two parts ore is the first part
the expe rimental study animal study and the second part
is about the acupuncture analgesic operations which-I
finished eight cases after today Since we are not
anesthesiologists or surgeons so we rather llke to do
the pain oontrol so we have been doing that since June
1972 up to today were still doing it
2 52 C SOUND FULL-ADAmD SOUND UNDER 4
ADAm
For Doctors Mann and Chen acupuncture has been
successfully used as an anesthetic in surgery and has proshy
ven successful in research as an analgesic on about 40
selected patients bullbullbullbull
C SOUND C ONTd FULLtD SOUND ClJ T
DR MANN
So let me find the spot here hurt you most and then I will
place a needle in the spot whe re it hurts And so I put a
needle over here She say that she has pain across re r
chest I am going to place the needle and then I will
connect this to a machine And at this point I try to get
their inter-coastal nerve and with this one the side nerve
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
M-344Seg C Page 18
When you have the tingling or numbness sensation you let
me know OK As you know probably we do not follow
the traditional meridian point Rather we follow the
patients complaining where the pain is And then we try
to get the nerve along the area
WOMAN
I feel it now
DR MANN
Do you feel it now Tingling
WOMAN
I fee1 bull bull bullbullbull
DR MANN
Numb Do you feel something
WOMAN
Like the needle
DR MANN
Kind of numb orbullbull
WOMAN
I guess it is a little numb
DR MANN
Feels a little numb OK
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
M-344Seg C P~e 19
DR MANN
We teach a patient to control by herselfbull because shes
the only one who mows how much she can take At any
given time so uhbullbullbull We teach her now so she turn up this
point now bullbullbullbull Now she turn up a little bullbullbull thats all she can
take But after a minute or sobullbullbull she will be able to toler shy
ate how much shes going to take So ah thats the way
she slowly and slowly increase the amount of output
of the current Are you all right
WOMAN
Uhm hum
DR MANN
Do you feel comfortable
WOMAN
Fine
DR MANN
This patient has had three years of tri-geminul neuralgia
You feel numb
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
You feel numb now
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
M-344Seg C Page 20
Dissolve to A
PATIENT 3
I can feel it
DR MANN
Any tingling sensation
PATIENT 3
There it goes
DR MANN
You feel it now
PATIENT 3
Uh huh
DR MANN
Good These two needles are right in the division of the
tri-geminul nerve
DR CHEN
Her history is not too unique They always have a treshy
mendous amount of pain to the point that they felt life
really wasnt worth living
PATIENT 3
5 54 Id like to t ell you you know how the pain feels when II
really had it real bad like you see lightening in the sky
that flash how it just sorta for a second it flashes well
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
Dissolve to B
Dissolve to A
thats how sharp it is it just gets you You dont lmow
whether youre going to get paralyzed or what--you just
freeze like thisbullbullbullbull I was so bad at one time that I got so
disgusted I told my husband I says I just feel like taking
everyone of my pills and finishing it off ending it
becau e it is really nothing to live with bullbullbull you feel like its
hopeless Because you never lmow when its going to
attack you you cant go anyplace you cant make plans
to go anyplace bull becaue of this Because youre like
in a different world by yourself I mean and no one can help
634 you I didnt lmow anything about it II didnt even know
what I had for 2 year s And now Ive had three treatments
coming in toaay for my fourth and my pain has been lesshy
645 sened I sleep all night which I neve r did before I
645 BRING IN D SOUND PRES 5 B G IC SOUND CONTd FULL
DR CHEN
The difficulty right now is to get enough research data
scientific data to see whether it works in certain area
or not at all and if it works how well it works comparee
with our conventional method of treatment So itts possibl
that acupuncture could be useful in other areas than in pail
relief
Dissolve to B 710 C SOUND CONT d FU LL-ADAffi j CHANGE D SOUND Chinatownbullbull San Francisco TO MUSIC
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
M-344Seg C Page 22
Dissolve to A
AQAffi
Acupuncture at this point is being tried by many people middot
as a last resort for many different ailments Most
people are skeptical ab out the treatment but many have
been converted once they have tried it In the United
States many people distressed with pain have had to obtain
treatment surreptitiously in the Chinatowns of larger
cities 0
730 C SOUND CONTd ID SOUND IN UNDER (6)
In Cleveland Ohiomiddot this lady who wished to remain
anonymous andher husband were amongst those in pain
who resorted to acupuncture and for them it worked
Their relief from pain was so exhilarating that their
zeal promoted them to open their home to the acupuncturE
and all of their ailing friends who wished treatment bull
748 D SOUND OUTIc SOUND CONTd FULL-MRS LUSTI
MRS LUSlI G
Uh the Chinese doctor who incidently is a 33 year old
doctor of acuplmcture Uh was coming in to spend a few
days as a lark She told 2 Cleveland patients that she
would finish them up here and she walked into 40 people
and low-and-behold holocaust began
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
D SOUND CHANGES TO MUSIC-FULL Revolving acupuncture doll
START MATTES 910 I) TITLE 2) NARRATOR 3) Writer Producer
Associate Producer 4) U D -Cinematographer
Film Editor 5) T D Audio
M-344Seg C Page 24
6) Co-op 7) Public Affiars MRA
FADE TO BLACK 939 FADE OUT ALL SOUND
M-344Seg C page 23
Then the miracles that I saw were not to be believed
truthfully NON not evezyone was helped and some people
need a series of treatments
833 D SOUND UNDER (PRES7)C CONTd FULL
Dissolve to B 909
I think this is a thing that will have to be recognized just
have to be And its uh a saying darn clever these
Chinese today with the use of acupuncture in this
country and from what Ive seen I would say darn fantas middot
tic these Chinese bull
DR KITZ
That acupuncture works seems to be fairly valid Is it
however any different that plecebel effect than hypnosis
than the ability of some people to control involuntary
sensations thats really where we are Is it any different
than these
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