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Acupuncture: East Meets West

by Dr Richard Halvorsen

Some practitioners in the West have questioned the necessity of practising acupuncture exclusively as traditionally taught. Are there other ways of using it that could be equally o...

Fractal Acupuncture

by Dr Zude Ye and Zoe Desmond

We are writing to introduce the fractal needle, a new therapy developed by Dr Zude Ye, based on the widespread, and age-old technique of puncturing the body with a needle.

Getting the Needle - Reminiscences of an early UK Acupuncture Student

by Arthur E Bromley

The author looks back at the trials and tribulations, and many amusing moments, during his three-year acupuncture training course, which he commenced in 1966 at the very first Acup...

The Pleasures and Pains of Acupuncture

by Sam Hart

I first came into contact with acupuncture because I'd broken my back in a snowboarding accident a couple of months before. I'd been hurtling down a slope when I caught the wrong e...

Traditional Acupuncture: Embodying the Emotions

by Anna-May Silvestro and assisted by John Hesselworth

The title of this article came out of a conversation I had with a GP in Leamington Spa. We were discussing the treatment of a person diagnosed as having a manic depressive illness....