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 …showed first 75 words of 1122 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1122 total…practitioners of alternative medicine have not been supported by rigorously controlled scientific studies. In recent years many scientist have begun to conduct such studies to evaluate alternative medicine. Physicians are also gaining more confidence in alternative medicine¡± In the later 1990¡¯s, some 75 U.S. medical schools had incorporated courses in alternative medicine and acupuncture into their curricula.¡±(Encarta) It is possible that what was considered alternative in the past will become mainstream in the future.