- College of Chinese Integrated Medicine
- British Acupuncture Council
- BAC Research documents
- Acupuncture and the NHS
Traditional acupuncture’s greatest strength is that it treats each patient individually. It focuses on all factors that contribute to disease, not just the presenting symptoms. Consequently, traditional acupuncture does not neatly fit the prevalent research protocols that have been developed in response to symptom-based treatments.
Although traditional acupuncture has been studied, tested and refined for centuries in China, research begins to provide quantifiable evidence of traditional acupuncture’s efficacy and cost-effectiveness the body of evidence available internationally is growing rapidly.
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