WHO endores acupuncture?

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I think there is some evidence that acupuncture, is occasionally an effective treatment, with better outcomes than than just a placebo would produce. When my sister did her nursing exams in the sixties, it was recognised as a system of pain relief. You don't have to buy into all the Chinese mumbo jumbo though, if you think of the needle interfering with the messages passing through the nerves a lot of the effects become a lot more creditable.

Interestingly Otzi the 4000 year old iceman of the Alps may have undergone acupuncture as a treatment. If that is so it dates to before the Chinese are supposed to have discovered it.


http://www.archaeologiemuseum.it/en/node/262

The thing about the studies into acupuncture is that it indeed was more effective than placebo, but it didn't matter where you put the needles. The 'correct' placement according to the acupuncturists produced no better results in pain relief than the incorrect placement. The whole industry is a fraud, the schools teaching about qi disruptment are just teaching mumbo jumbo. You can put the needles wherever you like and produce the same results, likely because the pain releases serotonin which is its own pain reliever. Also being an old treatment does not equal being a good treatment, elsewise we'd still be bleeding people.