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merchimerch ([personal profile] merchimerch) wrote2008-12-03 06:01 am

For my TCM friends

Look, the scientific community agrees that acupuncture works (with or without needles):
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081201082353.htm

[identity profile] aelfscine.livejournal.com 2008-12-03 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
A consideration: what was the 'traditional' nausea remedy? "Have some pills?" One thing I wonder with the acupuncture is if the patients might have responded simply because the treatment involved more personalized, thorough care. If acupuncture were generating a placebo effect, there'd be a lot of reinforcement for it.

Personally I don't have any opinion of acupuncture, but I'd think researching it would be difficult as it'd be almost impossible to have a double-blind study.