Acupuncture is an ancient approach to treating
the body to ease or alleviate a huge range of conditions.
Acupuncture involves the insertion and manipulation
of very fine needles into specific points on the
body to relieve pain or for therapeutic purposes.
There is an extensive theory explaining acupuncture
in terms of movement of "chi" (which is
a Chinese term for "vital energy, or "life-force")
along meridian lines that flow through the body
and on which the acupuncture points are located.
