Standards of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

The standards of acupuncture and Chinese medicine have not been fully approved by the FDA. Acupuncture needles are not recommended for using more than once. Certification of acupuncture today remains a sham in most American physicians. The goal of this sham is making money by cashing the desperation of patients who have not benefited from medical treatments.

The National Council Against Health Fraud has declared acupuncture as an unproven means of treatment whose concepts of healing are primitive and false. The perceived positive effects of acupuncture are regarded as the result of the patient's own expectations and placebo effect.