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Conventional medicine

Conventional medical approaches are extremely useful for complement the Chinese Medicine Approach. These routes are generally well known, but there is still a need for good information: 

• An excellent resource for further information is www.patient.info
• Another excellent U.S. based resource is the Mayo Clinic for health advice.

Acupuncture: Traditional Acupuncture

Traditional acupuncture is what I practice, and is more or less the equivalent to those well developed methods used in China for centuries:

• The leading professional body is the British Acupuncture Council or BAcC and is available here: www.acupuncture.org.uk
• A really useful review in a UK national newspaper about the effectiveness of traditional acupuncture can be found here in the Guardian newspaper article "Is Acupuncture Effective?"
• A really thorough introduction to the subject found in usual Wikipedia style (with usual pro. and con. opinions) is found here.
  

Acupuncture: Medical Acupuncture

These days increasing numbers of physiotherapists, osteopaths and medial doctors have been turning to acupuncture having seen clinical effectiveness. These resources describe this approach:

• The website of the British Medical Acupuncture Society
• For the physio. approach: Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists

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“I have no knowledge of any parallel universe, so I can’t compare what my life without acupuncture would be like to see exactly how much it has helped, but my feeling is that it does help me, so I won’t stop. Equally, I recognise that it is good to meet a qualified doctor on a regular basis for a one-to-one session lasting 45 minutes.” Is Acupuncture Effective?, Guardian Article