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RE: Out Of My Body: My Acupuncture Story
We tackled acupuncture during our classes in med school. It was an interesting subject but wasn't discussed in depth. There were no local practitioners in our area to consult about it further. I view acupuncture as an alternative means for pain relief but its not going to be the first thing I'd recommend when dealing with clinical pain. I wish more empirical clinical trials were published about the subject.
There are actually loads of published trials and reviews from China, not all of them translated into English unfortunately. There is still an inherent ethnocentric bias in medical science still unfortunately, a hang-over from colonial times.
Its uses go beyond pain management, as has been documented for around 2000 years. Again, unfortunately the sheer number of documents needing to be translated is massive!