How can sticking tiny needles in a person possibly make them feel better? The answer: when they're acupuncture needles. Used by Asian healers for centuries, acupuncture needles feel like tiny pinpricks and stimulate specific points in your hands, feet, back, and head like the deepest of massages. Acupuncture can correct all kinds of problems, including backaches, migraines, the common cold, and even infertility. Like doctors, acupuncturists begin their treatment by observing and talking to their patients, then get to work, choosing strategic places to pinprick to help patients' muscles relax and their pains drain away. This treatment is so effective that many health insurance plans now cover acupuncture for patients with chronic pain issues.
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Though modern Western painkillers can help to mask pain, and costly operations can sometimes solve chronic issues, many Americans are turning to this older form of healing as a safer, more effective way of treating their pain.
Acupuncture as a healing practice is thought to have started nearly 5,000 years ago (early needles were made of bamboo).
