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Decoding an Ancient Therapy:  High-Tech Tools Show How Acupuncture Works in Treating Arthritis, Back Pain, Other Ills Acupuncture has long baffled medical experts and no wonder: It holds that an invisible life force called qi (pronounced chee) travels up and down the body in 14 meridians. Illness and pain are due to blockages and imbalances [...]

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The World Health Organization Interregional Seminar drew up the following provisional list of diseases that lend themselves to acupuncture treatment. The list is based on clinical experience, and not necessarily on controlled clinical research: furthermore, the inclusion of specific diseases are not meant to indicate the extent of acupuncture’s efficacy in treating them. ***The associated [...]

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Scientists in China claimed to have found a breakthrough in acupuncture therapy which would help detect cancer and brain tumors in patients at an early stage through a super powerful X-ray beam. ‘In an experiment on rabbit tissue, we have found that at acupuncture point regions there exists the accumulation of micro-vessels. But the images [...]

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