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Concluding paragraph:

"At least 26 studies of acupuncture have shown that it has no significant effect. But, three large studies have found that acpuncture does reduce the incidence of headaches and migraines. However of those two have shown that sticking pins in randomly is as effective as using traditional Chinese methods. What is known now is what has been suspected by practioners for a long time: that the traditional talk of "energy channels", "meridians" and "acupuncture points" are not true and are defunct explanations of how acupuncture works. Instances of punctured lungs, increased pain, internal bleeding and other side-affects occur in up to 1 in 5 cases especially if a practitioner is not a medically trained doctor."

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kurtbatz From: [info]kurtbatz Date: August 15th, 2005 10:23 am (UTC) (Link)
"Sticking pins in randomly is as effective"

It's like I've always said. That is exactly why Pinhead from Hellraiser has such lovely complextion!
tangyapple From: [info]tangyapple Date: August 15th, 2005 11:20 pm (UTC) (Link)
From: (Anonymous) Date: December 30th, 2005 10:47 pm (UTC) (Link)

acupuncture

have you ever worked with sick people??
i don't care how or why, but shoving those needles in their ears makes them stop threatening, verbally abusing and whingeing, but close their eyes n shut up. session over they say thank you...
and you shouldn't get any internal injuries or bleeds at all from inserting needles a mere 2mm deep into the skin, you know.

someone who works thee works
From: (Anonymous) Date: September 27th, 2006 06:32 pm (UTC) (Link)

acupuncture

Try it - it might work. At least it has for myself, my family and the thousand or so people I have treated over the last 16 years.

A licensed acupuncturist
From: (Anonymous) Date: July 9th, 2007 11:53 am (UTC) (Link)
Acupuncture does not work for everyone, and if a person is that unlucky one that it does not work for... sorry but it really helped me to overcome my headaches.
http://www.whyacupunctureworks.com/
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