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Annette **Acupuncture **  If you know about the famous Staple’s Easy Button, then you know when you push it, something good happens right away. Acupuncture is like an Easy Button. Acupuncture, an idea taken from ancient Chinese medicine. You do it by poking your body with small needles. Surprisingly, this makes the body release a chemical that relieves pain. You can tell acupuncture is important based how early it started, its religious connection, and how much people use it even today.

Maybe the most interesting thing is the time when acupuncture started. In fact, “Acupuncture has a clearly recorded history of about 2,000 years but some authorities claim that it has been practiced in China for about some 4,000 years” (healthy.net). It was discovered way ahead of its time. Science could not explain how acupuncture worked until recently. The almost magical practice would be engrained in both Chinese history and culture.

The effect of acupuncture on Chinese culture is even easier through its links to religion. Some records tell us “The origin of acupuncture …is a teaching of Taoism” (gotquestions.org). Specifically, acupuncture’s base in religion “…has to do with the flow of energy” (buzzle.com/articles). These ideas may have started just to answer questions that science, at the time, couldn’t. However, people still believe the religious ideas.

Besides the relationship between acupuncture and religion today is the relationship between acupuncture and today’s society. It is important to know that although it started in China, people do it around the world. Such a common therapy, “Scientific acupuncture studies are receiving millions in government funding” (acupunturetoday.com). Lasting for so long, people want to know more about how acupuncture works more and more. Although not all the details about it have been discovered, acupuncture is still very popular throughout the world. This is because people don’t always care how it works when they know it does so well.

Acupuncture’s important because its ancient history. It’s also significant to religion. Lastly, its usage today is proof of acupuncture’s affect on the world. Although acupuncture isn’t as simple as pushing a big red button, it is still an way to relieve stress.

Sally Do you get headaches? Do you have allergies? Acupuncture could help- it has been around since the Stone Age. Acupuncture is a kind of ancient Chinese medicine; it is practiced by putting in needles at cer tain pressure points on your body with Chinese herbal medicines. Acupuncture is one of the oldest and most effective forms of medicine, it is still used today because it is over 2000 years old, there are several success stories, and millions of people are treated with acupuncture a year.
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Acupuncture is one of the oldest kinds of medicine around today. “Archaeological findings revealed that stone acupuncture needles have existed since 3000 B.C.” (Banji). That means acupuncture has been around since the Stone Age! Acupuncture has been around long before many of the modern medicines today. Unlike many of these medicines or practices, it has not been considered bad or taboo. Acupuncture also hasn’t changed much since when it first started. Acupuncture is more popular and just as effective today as it were thousands of years ago. S __**__ uccess __ In America, acupuncture is widely used for relief in a bunch of different ways so there are several success stories. After an acupuncture treatment, one woman said, “The first winter I got my acupuncture treatments was my first winter in eighteen years I had no sinus infections or headaches” (Shasta Tierra, L.Ac.). Besides that one personal story of success, there are millions of others. On one website there were hundreds of success stories, plus there are thousands of other acupuncture websites with hundreds of success stories. Acupuncture has tremendously helped people live their lives in happier, healthier ways. It is so successful that it is now being used with pets that need medical treatment; even dogs get acupuncture! The relief that millions of people get from acupuncture is another reason to prove how successful it is. P __**__ opularity __ Acupuncture is one of the most effective forms of natural medicine offered and it’s very popular. It’s so popular that in 2002 a study found that 8.2 million American adults have used acupuncture and that 2.1 million had used it in year before. This statistic doesn’t include teenagers or children or pets that may have gotten acupuncture treatments in 2002. In the past 7 years, millions of other people have received acupuncture treatments because it has become more and more popular. Acupuncture has become more popular because of its helpfulness. It has helped many people and those people share the success that they have had with the treatments; spreading the word of acupuncture.
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Acupuncture has been around for thousands of years helping people even during the Stone Age. Acupuncture has provided people with millions of success stories that made many lives more enjoyable. It is also widely known and used in the United States which makes it very popular. In conclusion, acupuncture is one of the most effective and oldest types of natural Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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