Acupuncture

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The paper explains the practice of acupuncture and its methods. The paper then discusses how acupuncture comes from a very different medical and philosophical background than Western medicine. The paper reveals that while there is still a general resistance to the deeper implications and worldview that acupuncture represents, it is having an increasing impact on Western forms of medicine and healing praxis.

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"Acupuncture has become one of the most widely known alternative healing therapies practiced today. Briefly this technique works through regulating and balancing the life force of energy fields that flows through the body by the insertion of fine needles at selected points. The theory is that the insertion of these needles in specific points or areas of the body affects and influences the Chi or the "life-force" that flows through the body through energetic channels or meridians. These meridians link the various organs of the body. There are twelve major meridians. The needles stimulate the flow of chi, rebalancing the flow of energy in the body, relieving pain and restoring health. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Acupuncture. May 4, 2007. http://skepdic.com/acupunc.html
• American Academy of Medical Acupuncture: General Information. May 4, 2007. http://www.medicalacupuncture.org/acu_info/generalinfo.html
• Definition of Allopathic. May 6, 2007. http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=33612
• Frequently asked questions. May 4, 2007. http://www.markgoulding.com/gpage.html
• Pulse Diagnosis. May 4, 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/pulse-diagnosis

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