"Modulatory effects of acupuncture on brain networks in mild cognitive impairment patients."
Scientific evidence is scarce, but acupuncture and other holistic treatments may offer some side benefits.
Widely practiced in Asia for thousands of years, acupuncture is one of the key components of traditional Chinese medicine. Yet it's still viewed with some skepticism in the Western world.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-09-acupuncture-ancient-remedy.html
Collaboration concluded that acupuncture is effective for the treatment of chronic pain, that the effects of acupuncture persist over time,...
https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20180521acupuncture.html
More than 100 years since servicemen returned with shellshock from the battlefields of World War I, Nicky Barrell reports on how acupuncture is being used to treat veteran’s post traumatic stress...
"It is not a mental health illness. The stress of battle affects the body which then causes mental health issues. My job is trying to remove the trauma from the body."...
"When we take the trauma out of the body the body starts reshuffling itself and readjusting itself.”
https://www.edp24.co.uk/features/acupunture-for-ptsd-norfolk-clinician-feature-1-5781200
Recent studies have shown that acupuncture can help control a number of symptoms and side effects — such as pain, fatigue, dry mouth, nausea, and vomiting — associated with a variety of cancers and their treatments.
https://www.mskcc.org/announcements/acupuncture-helps-ease-side-effects-and-symptoms-some