Acupuncture is a form of traditional Chinese medicine treatment that involves inserting thin needles through a person's skin at specific points on the body, to various depths.

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Traditional Chinese medicine explains that health is the result of a harmonious balance of the complementary extremes of "yin" and "yang" of the life force known as "qi," pronounced "chi." Illness is said to be the consequence of an imbalance of the forces. Qi is said to flow through meridians, or pathways, in the human body. These meridians and energy flows are accessible through 350 acupuncture points in the body. Inserting needles into these points with appropriate combinations is said to bring the energy flow back into proper balance.

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Case controlled clinical studies have shown that acupuncture can help with:

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· Allergic rhinitis (including hay fever)

· Depression (including depressive neurosis and depression following stroke)

· Dysentery, acute bacillary

· Dysmenorrhoea, primary

· Facial pain (including craniomandibular disorders)

· Headache

· Hypertension, essential

· Hypotension, primary

· Induction of labor

· Knee pain

· Leukopenia

· Low back pain

· Morning sickness

· Nausea and vomiting

· Neck pain

· Pain in dentistry (including dental pain and temporomandibular dysfunction)

· Periarthritis of shoulder

· Postoperative pain

· Renal colic

· Rheumatoid arthritis

· Sciatica

· Sprain

· Tennis elbow