Acupuncture Treatments for Pain Relief

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ACUPUNCTURE is the most controversial of nondrug pain control methods in contemporary US medicine. This form of treatment originated in China some 4,000 years ago. It has been of interest in the United States for scarcely a decade although widely used in Europe since early in this century and universally acclaimed for its pain-relieving qualities. Traditional Acupuncture United States physicians have failed to embrace acupuncture for several reasons, but mainly because, as it is usually presented to them, it has lacked documented scientific validity and has been taught as a practice based on ancient Taoist philosophy passed down through the centuries with relatively little change. The many texts and frequent seminars on acupuncture all adhere to this traditional approach with its fanciful theories. In this archaic acupuncture theory, man is thought to be a microreflection of the cosmos with two major forces (yin and yang) affecting his energy balance (chi

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