Frontiers in Alternative & Traditional Medicine

Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a technique of alternative medicine and a constituent of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are implanted into the body. Acupuncture is a pseudoscience; the theories and practices of TCM are not centered on scientific knowledge, and it has been categorized as quackery. There is a mixture of acupuncture variants which invented in different philosophies, and procedures vary depending on the country in which it is implemented, but can be divided into two crucial foundational philosophical solicitations and approaches, the first being the contemporary standardized form called eight principal TCM and the second an older system that is based on the ancient Taoist Wuxing or well known as the five elements or phases in the West.