Acupuncture as and Alternative Treatment.
             Take a walk into your local hospital. See the background of busy doctors helping patients. Doctors chattering about prescriptions, diagnoses and medical talk of conditions. In Chinese medicine, it¡¯s a complete medical system that has diagnosed, treated, and prevented illness for over Twenty three centuries. From alternative treatment such as acupuncture that has helped thousands of people. Pizzorno author of the Encyclopedia of Medicine points out that acupuncture has been well known in the U.S. ¡°The past 40 years, acupuncture has become a well known and reasonably available alternative treatment in both developed and developing countries.¡± (Pizzorno pg. 242)Many organizations recognize acupuncture as a form of treatment ¡°acupuncture has attracted increased attention from the American public and governmental agencies such as the FDA and World Health organization of the United Nations¡± (Encarta). Medicine treatments have changed drastically over the last few decades and an alternative treatment such as Acupuncture has had a major impact in the U.S.
             Alternative Medicine is also called unconventional medicine, therapeutic practices, techniques, and beliefs that are outside the realm of mainstream Western health care. Alternative medicine emphasizes therapies that improve quality of life, prevent diseases, and address conditions that conventional medicine has had limited success in curing, such as chronic back pain and certain cancers. Proponents of alternative medicine believe that these approaches to healing are safer and more natural and have been shown through experience to work. In certain counties such as China, alternative medical practices are most commonly used methods of health care. (Beinfield)
             The Chinese believe that all of creation is born from the marriage of two polar principles, Yin and Yang: Earth and Heaven, winter and summer, night and day, cold ...