In this day and age, most people have already heard of acupuncture and maybe you’ve even tried it for back pain or fertility enhancement.  An important part of the Chinese health care
system, Acupuncture can be traced over 2,500 years.  Its theory is
based on the premise that there are patterns of energy flow (Qi)
through the body that are essential for health and when disturbed, this
flow is believed to contribute to the development of disease.  In
American medicine, the practice of acupuncture to treat identifiable
disease was rare until President Nixon visited China in 1972, after
which there was a big jump in interest in the US and Europe in applying
the technique to Western medicine...