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Originally Posted by Stoofa
Some alternative medicine has been proven to work for some people, acupuncture, for example, is used to help people with arthritis and can help some people quit smoking. I don't think it's all psychological because most studies of acupuncture follow test subjects who receive real acupuncture and subjects who receive sham acupuncture. All subjects believed they were getting the real deal.
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I´d say although chinese acupuncture is an alternative medicine from the beginning it´s pretty much accepted by western medicine and is also used. That´s the case in Sweden anyway. If I´m not mistaken acupuncture is used primarily to ease pain and can be performed by fully qualified doctors (expr?) The scientific explanation that supports the use of acupuncture is that it has proven it releases the body´s own painkiller hormones (endorfiner in Swedish. didn´t find the english word)
