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Acupuncture
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Acupuncture
This paper discusses the ancient Chinese science of acupuncture: History, principles, effects, techniques with needles, theory and future applications.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
5 sources |
1991
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"Acupuncture is the ancient Chinese science of pricking needles into the skin in order to ease pain. The success of the technique has resulted in it being universally accepted throughout China today. In recent years, Westerners have also begun discovering the benefits of acupuncture treatment for the relief of pain. Nevertheless, the Western medical profession as a whole is opposed to acupuncture. This is primarily because most doctors cannot understand how it could be possible for pain to be relieved by inserting needles into the skin at points which are far removed from the pain itself. In addition, many doctors feel that the evidence regarding acupuncture's success is inconclusive. Thus, "the ongoing mystery of acupuncture's mechanism of action - and the less-than-ideal experimental designs characteristic of so many acupuncture trials - have left many Western ... "More papers on Acupuncture:
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Acupuncture (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 11, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Acupuncture/18997
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"Acupuncture" 15 January 2012. Web. 11 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Acupuncture/18997>
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