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would be the year for a couple of the herbal oils both calmed and buzzed personal records in Bill’s him. He left feeling a bit tired, favorite triathlons. He just knew it. PR’s and and awoke the next day with some maybe a podium finish or two. He had relief from aches in his sore muscles. Bill spent the winter doing baseline trainreturned to Sara’s clinic the following ing, adding weights, stretching, and week. His condition improved yoga to his routines. Once spring again, but not enough for him arrived, he ramped up his to resume hard swimming, workouts. bicycling, “Let’s try a few and running other acupuncture following a points and test schedule he some other oils you might had planned for like,” Sara said when he his target races. What he hadn’t planned, however, was A tale of fiction by Barbara Javor arrived for his third session. After he settled on his back, a series of twinges and aches that plagued his shoulders, hamstrings, and feet. He she brought four small bottles of oils for Bill to tried rest and massage, but the soreness contin- sniff while she prepared the needles. He found two bottles with pungent, woodsy ued to nag him. Afraid the aches might turn into serious injuries, he decided to take the next scents he liked, and alternated sniffing them. step—acupuncture. Some of the participants in “One of them says Restore Qi and the other says his group workouts had recommended it, and Bill’s Activate Qi,” he said. “Sounds good to me.” He yoga instructor, Sara, was a practitioner. ‘Why rested the bottles on his chest as Sara started to not?’ he thought. ‘A few needles and aromatic oils insert the needles. can’t hurt.’ “Uh oh,” she said. “The bottles tipped, and the Sara’s clinic was in downtown La Jolla, caps weren’t closed. The oils soaked your skin.” California, just a few blocks from the beach where She removed the bottles and sniffed the air. Bill often swam. During his first treatment, he “Pretty strong musty scent. It’s a good thing we’re stripped down to his running shorts so Sara could not in the forest where you might attract bears,” insert needles along prescribed meridians from his she said with a laugh. After Sara finished inserting scalp to his feet while he lay on his back. Later a score of needles between his scalp and the tops she repeated the procedure while he lay on his of his feet, she turned on a heater over his stomach. The faint musty scent of a few drops of abdomen. “Relax, and I’ll be back in about twenty
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