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Alternative medicine, long dismissed by mainstream doctors, is getting a second look as many people in the United States have turned to to treat a variety of problems. Proponents of have accumulated many statistics and surveys in favor of this ancient method. ....

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.... that have experienced the treatment claim that "is less painful than getting a shot or having blood drawn because the needles are so thin" (Weiss 73). The question remaining involves the legitimacy of treatments. It has a long history of success in Asia dating back over 5,000 years (Duke 224). The method approaches problems as "patterns of disharmony" which are responsible for poor health in individuals (Consumer 55). Oriental acupuncturists believe that either yin or yang, whose balance affects everything in the universe, influences each of the body's organs. They also believe that the body is full of pathways of energy called qi. res ....