Talk:Acupuncture/Archive1

irrelevant
since "doctors" actally use disposable needles the remark concerning disease spreading is groundless itself..

removing? &mdash; Unsigned, by: 93.35.51.187 / talk 11:54, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * This claim is backed up with a superb reference to a relevant medical study.-- 11:57, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * sry, just reporting what i saw myself.
 * how can i support it? (not sarcasm)
 * medical guidelines? i know that probably "dr"Wong uses the same needles his grandfather gave him, but i believe that in structures
 * such as hospitals or clinics a doctor who does not dispose of such materials will not last long. 93.35.51.187 (talk) 12:13, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Tools Used
According to the nice folk at Science Based Medicine, acupuncture is referenced in historical texts but most of the tools used in those references are scarily large sized: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/acupuncture-and-fascial-planes-junk-science-and-wasteful-research/ I don't have access to the original texts that SBM cite, but I'm pretty sure I'm not alone amongst modern folk who mentally think acupuncture=needles and could do with a reminder. It's only in my head because I was trawling the SBM archives last week and re-read it then! Jeshyr (talk) 08:32, 9 February 2013 (UTC)