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This is an interesting thread because a close family member of mine is an acupuncturist as well as an MD (yes, board certified). His father was also an acupuncturist. Neither of them are Asian or believe in chi so there was no cultural tradition whatsoever, nor did either of them ever claim that acupuncture could cure cancer or other horseshit. However, another relative has spent a lot of time getting acupuncture specifically to relieve pain from chronic migraines and swears by it after normal painkillers clearly failed. I personally got a course of ten treatments to reduce a specific nervous tremor when I was a teenager; it definitely gave me a phobia of needles (lol) but I believe it also measurably reduced/eliminated the tremor as well, though how much of that is because of enforced learning to stay still, well, who the gently caress knows. I am one of the most skeptical people you will ever meet on every other subject but have to admit that acupuncture throws me for a loop. The traditional explanations certainly don't make any sense but it's difficult for me to believe that it is completely worthless in the sense that homeopathy is. If it is simply a placebo effect, chronic pain patients should not be as susceptible to it, and even if they are, the conclusion I'm forced to draw is that no one should ever expose it since chronic pain treatment in particular can be ineffective or dangerous with modern tools. On the other hand, people claiming that solutions of lavender cure cancer should die in a fire.
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