Acupunture is supposed to be practiced by people with licenses. I regularly go to a Chinese medicine school and receive acupuncture as well as other treatments. The practice is considered to work better along with other forms a treatment such as herbs and, depending on the case, western medicine as well.

A friend of mine just went through an oral operation where two of her molars were removed and roto-rooted. She went directly to the Chinese medicine school afterwards and had a acupunture treatment as the Novacaine was wearing off. She received a perscription for Western pain medicine as well, but she never needed to use it - heck, she didn't even get the perscription filled. She got 4 daily treatments and at the end everything was fine.

Acupunture cleared up my alergies - mild ones, though they were.

pax yall