Frontiers in Alternative & Traditional Medicine

Acupuncture as an Alternative Medicine

Acupuncture is an alternative medicine practice that cures illness or provides local anesthesia by the inserting needles at specified sites of the body. Acupuncture is frequently adopted for the usage of low back, shoulder and knee pain. Millions of individuals use acupuncture every year for chronic pain. Acupuncture is a family of techniques linking stimulation of anatomical areas on or in the skin by a various techniques. Traditional Chinese medicine elucidates acupuncture as a technique of balancing the flow of energy. Nowadays it is habitually combined with other interventions, like sending a small current of electricity via needles or burning herbs on the acupuncture points.