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Uses of Acupuncture

Acupunture

Currently in China the main use of acupuncture is as an anesthetic in surgery. It is also used to treat some heart conditions, ulcers, asthma, hypertension and appendicitis.

Some Western doctors have observed surgeries made based anesthesia and have confirmed that acupuncture works in some cases but not in the majority. One advantage of acupuncture, as Chinese surgeons who practice it, is that it interferes with the normal physiology of the human body and therefore the patient is less vulnerable to a shock.

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