It works. Its relatively safe, risk free. Acupuncture is amazing for sinuses, for toothache (it doesn't mend the tooth, it just soothes the pain)...

How does it work. From a western, scientific, point of view: acupuncture needles cause the release of endorphins in the nervous system. This was demonstrated in the mid 1970s by Prof. Bruce Pomeranz and Richard Chang of Toronto University, and it explains (in part) how acupuncture analgesia works.

I worked with Dr. Pomeranz from 1984 to 1991 as his research associate. Among other things, we worked on some of the electrical aspects of acupuncture. At its simplest, the body uses electricity as a signal for healing. Acupuncture mimics these signals. (Acupuncture simulates Jaffa's "current of injury".)

Sitting with Pomeranz at lunch, I asked him to guesstimate how much of acupuncture these two mechanism, "endorphin" and "current of injury". can explain. Endorphins are very important in acupuncture analgesia (pain killing), but that's a small part of acupuncture. Maybe 10%. And the electrical signal, the current of injury, we guessed maybe 5%. But most of acupuncture is a mystery. It's that Chi and those meridians and cauldrons and pulses and the five elements and the eight influences...

What do you want to know? Ask the doctor.
I will try to answer your specific questions on
how it works...
what it's good for...

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Pomeranz and Chang have done some work on the significance of different frequencies in electric acupuncture. If you wish to know more, please ask.