My understanding from the research on acupucture is that it works quite well for ACUTE pain (dentistry, etc) but it does not RELIABLY work for anything else, even other kinds of pain. Of course, the more you believe in it the better anything will work, but I have never tried it myself; Mom tried it for chronic pain, no help, and that was before I started looking into it. It is NOT quackery per se, but boy can quacks do acupuncture...