TY - CHAP AU - Kylie O’Brien AU - Stephen Birch ED - Marcelo Saad Y1 - 2011-09-06 PY - 2011 T1 - Toyohari Meridian Therapy: A Form of Acupuncture that Challenges our Assumptions while Opening New Vistas for Explorations of Acupuncture N2 - Acupuncture is growing in popularity world-wide. Acupuncture and related techniques are useful tools for treating a spectrum of diseases. However, there are still many areas of controversy connected to it due to the fact that mechanisms of action of acupuncture are not entirely clear. Another debilitating element is the absence of a convincing model of sham acupuncture for a control group in clinical trials.Therefore, there are still inappropriate prejudice and unfamiliarity regarding acupuncture. I hope this book can contribute to guide the advance of this ancient medical art. The reader will here find texts wrote by authors from different parts of the world. The chapters cover strategic areas to collaborate with the consolidation of the knowledge in acupuncture. The main objective is to share elements to make acupuncture more and better offered at health systems worldwide. BT - Acupuncture SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/23931 DO - 10.5772/23931 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -