Acupuncture: Specific and Non-Specific Effects
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Acupuncture: specific and non-specific effects.
As an alternative and complement to conventional or allopathic medicine, acupuncture has become a firmly established therapy in many countries. Despite this wide acceptance, the question of how acupuncture works, or whether it works at all, remains the subject of lively debate. One problem in the discussion of acupuncture and its possible mechanisms is that acupuncture is not only used for the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Forschende Komplementärmedizin / Research in Complementary Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1661-4127,1661-4119
DOI: 10.1159/000113416